Principal Software Engineer - Platform & DevOps

Grip.Events; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Equity

Health plan

Group life insurance

Training budget

Sabbatical leave

Job summary

Grip is hiring a Principal Software Engineer to own features end-to-end within the Engage squad, influencing platform-wide architecture and pipelines across the organisation. You’ll help shape the infrastructure, data pipelines and AI-enabled capabilities for an award-winning event platform.

This senior role involves collaborating with leadership to drive security, reliability and performance while mentoring peers and setting technical standards across the team.

Qualifications

• Senior individual contributor with product ownership focus.
• Experience shaping and running infrastructure and pipelines.
• Comfort with cloud-based stacks and modern CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of features end-to-end with agile practices, delivering with feature flags, tests and observability.
• Collaborate with product teams to refine plans and identify issues and opportunities.
• Deliver features with security and performance in mind.
• Champion high-quality communications and technical documentation.
• Contribute to the technical direction across the squad and platform.

Skills

Product ownership

Senior IC

Agile methodologies

Cross-squad collaboration

Tools

TypeScript

NodeJS

Python

Angular

React Native

DocumentDB

MySQL

PostgreSQL

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Jest

Cypress

Prometheus

Grafana

Sentry

Job description

Grip is hiring a Principal Software Engineer to own features end-to-end within the Engage squad, influencing platform-wide architecture and pipelines across the organisation. You’ll help shape the infrastructure, data pipelines and AI-enabled capabilities for an award-winning event platform.

This senior role involves collaborating with leadership to drive security, reliability and performance while mentoring peers and setting technical standards across the team.