Principal Software Engineer

Egreenservices; Scottsdale (AZ); Remote; USD 164,000 - 241,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Professional growth

Job summary

Macy's is seeking a Principal Software Engineer in Scottsdale, AZ, for a high-impact, temporary role with a $164,000-$241,000 annual pay range and unlimited PTO. You will own critical tooling, mentor peers, and collaborate with local teams to improve uptime and developer velocity.

Bring deep Ruby on Rails expertise, strong communication, and hands-on experience with GraphQL and MongoDB to drive rapid, reliable outcomes in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proven Ruby on Rails expertise in a fast-moving environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Build internal tooling to improve developer productivity and velocity.
• Automate Linux chores to reduce engineering hours.
• Collaborate with users in Scottsdale to define tool needs.
• Mentor engineers through GraphQL on-call scenarios.
• Defend uptime during late-night Scottsdale incidents.
• Drive postmortems to prevent outages in Scottsdale.
• Push changes safely behind flags for quick rollbacks.
• Cut React cold-start times to wake systems faster for AZ users.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

GraphQL

Linux

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

MongoDB

Job description

Somewhere between the whiteboard sketch and the green deploy badge is the Principal Software Engineer role we're opening in Scottsdale, AZ. With 9 years of experience under your belt, you'll step into a temporary position paying $164,000 - $241,000 where ownership and momentum matter.

Key Responsibilities

• Build internal tooling that improves developer productivity and velocity
• Automate the manual Linux chores that quietly drain Scottsdale, AZ engineering hours
• Sit with technology users in Scottsdale to learn what the Ruby on Rails tool really needs
• Mentor the principal cohort through their first real GraphQL on-call at Macys
• Defend Macys uptime through the 2 a.m. Scottsdale pages nobody volunteers for
• Drive the Prioritization incident postmortem that stops the Scottsdale outage from recurring
• Push Linux changes safely behind flags so Scottsdale, AZ rollbacks take seconds
• Cut React cold-start times so Macys functions wake before AZ users notice

What You'll Bring

• A collaborator who makes the principal review feel less like an exam
• The reliability that lets a manager stop checking in
• Hands-on familiarity with Prioritization, sharpened by MongoDB side projects
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated Ruby on Rails expertise in a fast-moving technology environment

Macys is the kind of remote-friendly Scottsdale company that technology engineers leave their old jobs to join. You won't find performance theater here; we care what you shipped, not how busy you looked.

The compensation here starts at $164,000 - $241,000, paired with unlimited PTO and a manager committed to your professional growth.