Principal Software Engineer

Inmar • Winston Salem, NC

77d • $164,254 - $273,757

About The Position

The Principal Software Engineer is a senior technical leader responsible for setting the technical vision, standards, and strategy for an entire division or for providing deep expertise in a specialized discipline. This role operates above the scope of individual teams or business units, ensuring architectural alignment, advancing innovation, and addressing complex, cross-cutting technical challenges. Principal Engineers act as trusted advisors to business and technical leadership, driving solutions that scale across the division while mentoring the next generation of technical leaders.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, with a minimum of 6+ years in a technical leadership role.
• Extensive experience designing and scaling complex, mission-critical software systems across multiple domains.
• Proven track record of influencing and setting technical direction at the organizational or divisional level.
• Strong ability to balance short-term delivery needs with long-term strategic goals.
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence senior leadership and align diverse stakeholders.
• Demonstrated expertise in mentoring senior engineers and shaping organizational technical culture.
• Deep knowledge of software engineering principles, system architecture, and operational excellence, independent of specific technologies.

Responsibilities

• Define and champion architectural standards, frameworks, and technical strategies for the division, ensuring coherence across multiple business units.
• Provide thought leadership on complex, large-scale systems and solve problems that span multiple domains or disciplines.
• Partner with Staff Engineers to guide business-unit initiatives and ensure alignment with division-wide goals.
• Anticipate future challenges and guide the organization toward long-term, sustainable solutions.
• Serve as a technical advisor to executive leadership, influencing business priorities and ensuring technical strategy aligns with organizational objectives.
• Facilitate collaboration across business units to address shared challenges, promote innovation, and maximize reuse of patterns and solutions.
• Drive technical consensus across diverse stakeholders, balancing trade-offs to deliver outcomes that benefit the division and the broader organization.
• Mentor Staff Engineers, Lead Engineers, and other senior technical talent to grow organizational technical capability.
• Set the tone for technical culture across the division, emphasizing excellence, innovation, and accountability.
• Foster a culture of learning and continuous improvement through knowledge sharing, modeling best practices, and elevating engineering standards.
• Lead the technical design of transformative, division-wide initiatives that require integration across multiple systems, platforms, or business units.
• Provide oversight for critical systems, ensuring they meet standards of reliability, scalability, security, and maintainability.
• Guide root cause analysis of high-impact issues and ensure systemic improvements that prevent recurrence.
• Measure success through long-term division-wide impact, including scalability, cost efficiency, and innovation.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
• Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance options
• 401(k) retirement plans with company match
• Health Spending Accounts (HSA/FSA)
• Flexible time off and 11 paid holidays
• Family-building benefits, including Maternity, Adoption, and Parental Leave
• Tuition Reimbursement and certification support, reflecting our commitment to lifelong learning
• Wellness and Mental Health counseling services
• Concierge and work/life support resources
• Adoption Assistance Reimbursement
• Perks and discount programs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Administrative and Support Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees