Principal Software Engineer

Tango Analytics is a company focused on helping businesses make smarter decisions through technology and data. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead architecture across products and platforms, mentor engineers, and guide global cloud deployments while ensuring quality and best practices are maintained. Responsibilities: Own architecture across product and platform; Define and evolve platform and application architecture, including service boundaries, integration patterns, data modeling, and API standards; Lead architecture reviews and influence roadmaps to balance near-term delivery with long-term simplicity, maintainability, and performance; Identify systemic product/platform opportunities (simplification, modularization, shared services) and drive cross-team execution; Introduce new technologies and best practices; Evaluate and introduce new technologies responsibly pilot, measure outcomes, document learnings, and scale adoption where valuable; Establish best practices in design, testing, secure coding, CI/CD, and production readiness; create reference implementations and templates; Raise engineering quality through clarity: design docs, decision records, coding standards, and measurable technical KPIs; Solve the hardest cross-team problems; Partner across teams to unblock complex initiatives: modernization, major refactors, performance tuning, data migrations, and distributed systems challenges; Drive alignment across stakeholders making tradeoffs explicit and decisions durable; Help teams debug and resolve high-severity production issues; codify learnings into better patterns and guardrails; Guide architecture for global cloud deployments (multi-region strategy, DR, availability, and operability); Support FedRAMP/government cloud certification readiness by shaping technical controls implementation plans with Security/Compliance; Mentor and coach across the organization; Mentor engineers across teams; coach technical leads on design quality, execution, and engineering judgment; Build learning mechanisms: architecture guilds, tech talks, post-incident reviews, and hands-on design workshops Qualifications: Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. for any employer; Ten years of overall experience, with at least five years as a Staff or Principal engineer at B2B SaaS startups; Strong working knowledge across: Java/J2EE, Oracle, Postgres, AWS, and modern frontend frameworks (React, Vue.js); Ability to move between systems-level architecture and hands-on problem solving, deep where needed, broad by default; Experience building and operating modern B2B SaaS applications with strong engineering fundamentals; Proven success setting architectural direction across multiple teams and making durable technical decisions; Strong systems design skills: scalability, reliability, performance, data consistency, and operational maturity; Ability to drive alignment, influence roadmaps, and lead through ambiguity with pragmatic tradeoffs; Experience with global cloud systems and production operations at scale (multi-region deployments, DR/BCP, observability); Experience supporting FedRAMP/government cloud certification and/or comparable regulated environments; Strong written and verbal communication; able to author clear design docs and influence across engineering, product, and leadership; Track record of mentoring and coaching engineers across teams, improving quality and raising the technical bar; A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field Required Skills: Java/J2EE, Oracle, Postgres, AWS, React, Vue.js, Systems Design, Architecture Leadership, Global Cloud Systems, FedRAMP Compliance, B2B SaaS Applications, Coaching, Influence, Mentorship