Principal Software Engineer for Applications and Services

Founded in 2009, SendGrid is an industry-disrupting, cloud-based customer communication platform that solves the challenges of reliably delivering emails on behalf of our customers. We deliver over 33 billion emails a month for customers like Airbnb, Spotify, and Uber.

As a Principal Back End Software Engineer at SendGrid, you will be responsible for the infrastructure code that enables our customers to manage the delivery of billions of emails a month in a secure and scalable way. You will work on a small, versatile and passionate team, tackling new problems as we continue to push our technology forward. You will design, test, deploy and maintain software solutions that solve customers’ problems at-scale. You will have the opportunity to shape architectural solutions that enable us to achieve our goal of simplifying communication between businesses and their customers.

• Live by and champion our cultural values of Happy, Hungry, Honest, and Humble
• Advise the team on technical direction, design, and standards
• Collaborate with product and engineering management on timeline and implementation details
• Build and deploy, reliable full-stack web applications and services that support millions of requests per day
• Work in a dynamic team environment developing and maintaining a high-quality code base with short turnaround times
• Contribute to continuous improvement of software development best practices in the areas of tools, languages, development processes and APIs
• We're an agile, fast growing company and this job description isn't meant to be a complete list of your qualifications or all of the things you'll do

• BS, MS, PhD in Computer Science, related technical discipline, or relevant work experience
• Experience with developing, testing, deploying, troubleshooting, and optimizing large scale web applications
• At least 2 years of technical leadership experience and 9-12 years in software development
• Ability to coach and mentor less experienced engineers
• Great verbal and written communication skills
• Experience with relational databases and Linux
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Able to work well without supervision; sees commitments through to completion
• Ability to work and participate on a team in an open collaborative environment
• Emotionally Intelligent - Recognize their own, and other people's emotions, to discriminate between different feelings and label them appropriately, and to use this to guide thinking and behavior.
• Decisive - Uses a framework or process by which to make decisions. At times, will need to make decisions quickly and often with incomplete data.
• Persuasive - Bring others to their point of view using logic, data, and emotion. Have a formal process and framework by which to make qualitative and quantitative points, not just using emotional appeals.
• Accountable - Being willing to answer for the outcomes resulting from their own choices, behaviors, and actions. Take ownership of situations that they're involved in.
• Self Motivated - Motivated to do or achieve something because of one's own enthusiasm or interest, without needing pressure from others.
• Focused - Achieve what they set out to do before launching new initiatives. Complete company-linked goals and tasks, not simply to be busy and active.
• Collaborative - A keen ability to support cross-functional projects and decisions. Gets energized from working within a team and cross-functionally to achieve the company's goals.

Bonus Points

• Experience with developing in any of the following languages: Go, Python, Java, Javascript, or Ruby
• Experience implementing and troubleshooting multithreaded applications
• Experience in working with and developing for highly distributed environments
• Understanding of microservice, service oriented architectures, and messaging queues