Principal Software Development Engineer

GoDaddy Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Generous time off

Healthcare

Retirement

Parental leave

Job summary

GoDaddy is seeking a Staff Engineer on the Site Platform (Apex) team to build the merchandising backbone powering pricing, packaging, and add-to-cart across GoDaddy brands. You will define technical direction, collaborate across engineering teams, and deliver scalable services used across the GoDaddy ecosystem.

You will mentor engineers, review code, and contribute to architecture decisions while shaping high-visibility systems at scale.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional Agile software development experience, including launching and operating production software.
• Proven ability to collaborate across multi-functional areas such as Marketing, Engineering, and Product Management teams.
• Full-stack engineering expertise with React, Node.js, and TypeScript, including REST and GraphQL.
• Data stores and caching experience with DynamoDB, Redis, and relational databases, focusing on scale and fault tolerance.
• Cloud experience with AWS, IaC (CDK or Terraform), CI/CD (GitHub Actions), and container orchestration (Kubernetes/ECS).
• Mentoring and technical leadership experience with a track record of helping engineers grow.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for cross-organizational initiatives.
• Design APIs and services behind merchandising with latency, resilience, and backward compatibility.
• Develop internal platforms and tooling to boost developer productivity and deployment velocity.
• Mentor and influence engineers to ensure successful, collaborative solutions.
• Perform code reviews to uphold engineering standards and quality.
• Contribute to open-source projects and share learnings with the team.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

React

Node.js

TypeScript

REST & GraphQL

AWS

CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

Kubernetes / ECS

Mentoring / technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

DynamoDB

Redis

Relational databases

AWS CDK

Terraform

Kubernetes

ECS

Job description

Location Details:

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At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time; others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days)and some work entirely remotely.

This is a remote position, so you'll be working remotely from your home. You may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or meetings.

Join our team

As a Staff Engineer on the Site Platform (Apex) team, you will build the merchandising backbone behind GoDaddy's public web presence and customer shopping experience. Apex owns the services that power product pricing, packaging, and add-to-cart experiences across GoDaddy brands, as well as the platforms that experimentation and analytics build on. Your code and solutions will be used throughout the GoDaddy engineering ecosystem and across multiple brands.

This is a hands-on role where you will lead by example, delivering well-factored, well-tested, and reusable code that can adapt to changing needs. You will partner across multiple engineering teams to drive technical solutions and architecture for new and complex functions while gaining the opportunity to influence highly visible systems at scale.

What you'll get to do…

• Set the technical direction of highly visible, cross-organizational initiatives that require coordination with multiple stakeholders.
• Design and evolve the APIs and services behind merchandising, with attention to latency, resilience, and backward compatibility for downstream consumers.
• Develop internal platforms and tooling to increase the productivity and velocity of development, deployment, and operations across the organization.
• Mentor, lead, and influence engineers to ensure the success of collaborative solutions.
• Perform code reviews that reinforce a high standard of quality and engineering excellence.
• Contribute to open-source projects related to our technology stack and product domain while experimenting with new approaches and sharing successes and learnings with the team.

Your experience should include…

• 10+ years of professional Agile software development experience, including launching and operating production software for public use.
• Proven ability to collaborate across multi-functional areas such as Marketing, Engineering, and Product Management teams.
• Full-stack engineering expertise with React, Node.js, and TypeScript, including modern web-service architectures such as REST and GraphQL.
• Data store and caching experience within distributed systems, including technologies such as DynamoDB, Redis, or relational databases, with a focus on scale and fault tolerance.
• Cloud platform experience with AWS, infrastructure as code such as AWS CDK or Terraform, CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions, and container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes or ECS.
• Mentoring and technical leadership experience, with a demonstrated ability to help engineers grow their expertise and capabilities.

You might also have…

• Experience with merchandising technologies and systems that present and sell products across storefronts and channels, including experimentation strategies such as A/B or multi-variant testing and analytics/data pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, developer tooling, or LLM-powered workflows.

We encourage you to apply even if your experience or skillset doesn't align perfectly with every requirement. We value a wide range of backgrounds and transferable skills, and we are excited to support learning and growth.

About us…

GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs around the world by providing the help and tools to succeed online, making opportunity more inclusive for all. GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers, sell their products and services, and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights, and people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. To learn more about the company, visit About Us.

At GoDaddy, we know diverse teams build better products-period. Our people and culture reflect and celebrate that sense of diversity and inclusion in ideas, experiences and perspectives. But we also know that's not enough to build true equity and belonging in our communities. That's why we prioritize integrating diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging principles into the core of how we work every day-focusing not only on our employee experience, but also our customer experience and operations. It's the best way to serve our mission of empowering entrepreneurs everywhere, and making opportunity more inclusive for all. To read more about these commitments, as well as our representation and pay equity data, check out our Diversity and Pay Parity annual report which can befound on our Diversity Careers page.

We also embrace our diverse culture and offer a range of Employee Resource Groups (Culture). Have a side hustle? No problem. We love entrepreneurs! Most importantly, come as you are and make your own way.

GoDaddy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. GoDaddy will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements. Refer to our full EEO policy.

GoDaddy doesn't accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies.

Compensation & Benefits

What We Offer:

Working at GoDaddy offers many benefits, including competitive pay, generous time off, parental leave, healthcare, retirement