Principal Software Engineer

CivicPlus is a company dedicated to innovation and collaboration, aiming to impact local government and the communities they serve. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead technical integration and architectural strategies across their SaaS product ecosystem, fostering a collaborative engineering culture and driving modernization efforts.

Responsibilities:

• Lead technical evaluation and integration across acquired engineering teams, establishing shared architecture, standards, and platforms while navigating legacy constraints toward a unified SaaS vision
• Foster a collaborative, high-trust engineering culture by defining shared practices, mentoring engineers, and enabling cross-team alignment through forums and working groups
• Provide architectural leadership for scalable, reliable SaaS systems across multi-cloud environments, and guide the responsible integration of AI into products, services, and internal tooling
• Drive modernization of CI/CD, observability, and release practices to improve developer productivity, quality, and speed across teams
• Act as a technical multiplier through architectural reviews, prototyping, and cross-functional collaboration, ensuring acquisitions strengthen and simplify the overall platform

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience as a senior or principal engineer working on large-scale SaaS products
• Significant prior experience supporting or leading technical integration during acquisitions
• Deep expertise in multi-cloud architectures (AWS & Azure) and distributed systems design
• Strong experience developing and integrating AI technologies into production systems and/or products
• A career-long track record of CI/CD ownership, build systems modernization, and DevOps-oriented development practices
• Strong communication, facilitation, and collaboration skills, ability to align diverse teams and build trust across organizations
• A reputation for elevating engineering culture: curiosity, experimentation, craftsmanship, and continuous improvement
• Ability to operate autonomously, drive clarity in ambiguous environments, and influence leaders at all levels
• Demonstrated ability to balance short-term pragmatism with long-term architectural vision