https://tech.attentive.com/About the Role Our Platform Infrastructure team is the backbone of everything we do at Attentive, providing a resilient and cost-effective platform that seamlessly handles billions of events from over 100 million customers daily. We own everything from compute, persistence, and networking to observability and deployments. Joining our team offers a high-growth career opportunity to collaborate with some of the world’s most talented engineers in a high-performance, high-impact culture.As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for leading the design, development, and deployment of distributed data applications and contributing towards the betterment of engineering culture at Attentive. You will partner closely with cross-functional teams to create our high-impact search platform, delivering personalized experiences for our clients and their customers. Your role will also include mentoring engineers, driving technical excellence, and contributing to strategic planning for the engineering department.  This team is building the search platform that empowers our clients to curate audience segments, which Attentive uses across the platform to personalize content. By delivering more relevant and engaging messages, this drives higher performance for our clients and better experiences for their customers.What You’ll AccomplishAnticipate and advocate for the future of the Attentive platform, partnering with peers to proactively design solutionsBe the technical connector across engineering, product, and design to ensure we deliver high quality software, and innovative, impactful productsContribute to company-wide engineering initiatives, including process improvements, infrastructure upgrades, and system enhancementsProvide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of engineers, ensuring growth and adherence to best practicesMultiply the effectiveness of others by facilitating cross-team workReduce the complexity of projects in order to get more done with less workYour Expertise10+ years experience as a Software Engineer with a focus on high throughput distributed systemsYou have expertise developing with Java, Python, or Go and strong understanding of object-oriented design, algorithms, and optimizationYou are knowledgeable about data modeling, data access, and data storage with relational and non-relational databasesYou have a proven track record of architecting applications at scale, maintaining secure reliable infrastructure, and setting a high bar for quality You are excited by the big, hard problems and look forward to identifying the areas of greatest need and creating plans to improve themYou are an empathetic communicator who can work seamlessly with technical and non-technical stakeholdersYou are comfortable with ambiguity and are adept at using business goals to turn that ambiguity into clear deliverablesWhat We UseWe use a wide variety of technology and we’re always looking for the best solutions to solve hard problemsOur backend is Java / Spring Boot microservices, built with Gradle, coupled with things like DynamoDB, Pulsar, AirFlow, Postgres, Planetscale, and Redis, hosted via AWSOur frontend is built with React and TypeScript, and uses best practices like GraphQL, Storybook, Radix UI, Vite, esbuild, and PlaywrightYou'll get competitive perks and benefits, from health & wellness to equity, to help you bring your best self to work.

- The US base salary range for this full-time position is $193,800 - $285,000 annually + equity + benefits- Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location#LI-JK1Attentive Company ValuesDefault to Action - Move swiftly and with purposeBe One Unstoppable Team - Rally as each other’s championsChampion the Customer - Our success is defined by our customers' successAct Like an Owner - Take responsibility for Attentive’s successLearn more about AWAKE, Attentive’s collective of employee resource groups.If you do not meet all the requirements listed here, we still encourage you to apply! No job description is perfect, and we may also have another opportunity that closely matches your skills and experience.At Attentive, we know that our Company's strength lies in the diversity of our employees. Attentive is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities for all employees, applicants and covered individuals regardless of protected characteristics. We prioritize and maintain a fair, inclusive and equitable workplace free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. Attentive is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities. If you need any assistance or reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know.