Principal Software Engineer

Sprouts Farmers Market•Phoenix, AZ

14d•Hybrid

About The Position

Provide technical leadership across teams within an assigned product or platform domain. Own technical objectives and roadmaps with a timeframe of at least one year, contribute technical input to department planning, and lead major technical initiatives involving detailed analysis, work delegation, and review. The role is associated with the Store Support Office in Phoenix, Arizona, and follows a hybrid arrangement requiring in-office presence Tuesday through Thursday. The Principal Software Engineer develops technical standards, reusable patterns, reference architectures, and software capabilities; leads complex, cross-team technical initiatives; presents recommendations to engineering leadership and cross-functional stakeholders; and provides guidance, coaching, and training to engineers. The role includes work involving event-driven design, streaming, data contracts, identity, access, and auditability. Sprouts offers a benefits program that includes competitive pay, time off, career growth opportunities, an employee discount, retirement savings, insurance coverage, and other programs. Eligibility requirements may apply to certain benefits.

Requirements

At least 7 years of software engineering experience with cross-team technical leadership.
Advanced knowledge of distributed systems, modern programming languages, microservices, and cloud-native architecture.
Experience with event-driven and streaming systems such as Kafka, Apache Pulsar, or equivalent.
Experience with Kubernetes and AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Experience developing architecture documents or requests for comment and leading technical reviews.
Experience with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, role-based access control, and audit logging.

Nice To Haves

Experience with agentic AI or large language model orchestration frameworks.
Experience with multi-cloud strategy, data mesh, data contracts, or chaos engineering.
Retail or merchandising domain familiarity.

Responsibilities

Develop and recommend technical standards, reusable patterns, and reference architectures for adoption within the assigned department or business unit.
Lead major and complex technical initiatives involving numerous or undefined issues that require detailed analysis and coordination across teams.
Present technical recommendations to engineering leadership and cross-functional stakeholders and gain agreement on matters of shared interest.
Author reference architectures, technical proposals, and reusable software capabilities.
Lead cross-team initiatives involving event-driven design, streaming, data contracts, identity, access, and auditability.
Provide technical guidance, coaching, and training to engineers within the job area and review work products for major initiatives.
Own technical objectives with a timeframe of at least one year and contribute to department or business-unit planning.

Benefits

Competitive pay.
Sick time plan for the employee or immediate family members.
Vacation accrual plan.
Opportunities for career growth.
15% discount for the employee and one other household family member on purchases at Sprouts.
Flexible schedules.
Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
401(k) retirement savings plan with a company match.
Company-paid life insurance.
Contests and appreciation events.
Bonus based on company and/or individual performance, subject to eligibility requirements.
Medical, dental, and vision coverage, subject to eligibility requirements.
Health Savings Account with company match, subject to eligibility requirements.
Pre-tax Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care, subject to eligibility requirements.
Company-paid short-term disability coverage, subject to eligibility requirements.
Paid parental leave for mothers and fathers, subject to eligibility requirements.
Paid holidays, subject to eligibility requirements.
DailyPay access for eligible employees.