Weave is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead technical strategy and architecture for messaging infrastructure. The role involves driving architectural coherence across multiple teams, identifying and solving company-level technical problems, and shaping company-wide standards for engineering excellence. The ideal candidate will have 12+ years of software engineering experience, progressive technical leadership scope, and expertise in distributed systems architecture, event streaming, and messaging infrastructure.
Requirements
- 12+ years of software engineering experience with progressive technical leadership scope
- Track record of leading cross-team technical initiatives that delivered measurable business outcomes
- Demonstrated ability to influence without authority, build consensus across organizational boundaries, and translate technical tradeoffs into business terms
- Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, including building and operating services that handle hundreds of millions of transactions and terabytes of data
- Proven experience with event streaming and messaging infrastructure (Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, or similar) at significant scale
- Strong background in scalable data stores—both relational (PostgreSQL at scale, Vitess, Spanner) and NoSQL (Bigtable, Redis, etc.)
- Operational experience with cloud-native infrastructure on GCP or AWS, including Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and highly available system design
- Solid backend engineering foundation (Go preferred; Python, Java, or C# acceptable)
- Experience with messaging delivery systems, carrier/aggregator integrations, or telecommunications infrastructure
- Expertise in data platform architecture: streaming pipelines, data lakes, warehouses, or distributed analytics
- Background in compliance-heavy environments (healthcare, fintech) with experience navigating regulatory requirements in technical design
- Experience shaping AI/ML infrastructure or integrating AI capabilities into production systems
- History of external technical leadership: open source contributions, conference speaking, or published technical writing
- Strong opinions, loosely held—you bring conviction to technical discussions while remaining genuinely open to better ideas
Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Retirement Plan
- Visa Sponsorship
- Four Day Work Week
- Generous Parental Leave
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Relocation Assistance
