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About the Role

The CloudBees platform is the foundation for all products. This role is critical for ensuring the platform's performance, which directly impacts engineering speed and customer trust. The Principal Software Engineer will direct, lead, and contribute to building and operating the platform, bringing deep back-end expertise and a product mindset, understanding that 'platform is a product'. The ideal candidate is excited about the future of software development with coding agents and AI, ships production-quality code, designs resilient systems, and understands distributed systems tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

Own the Platform Foundation: Understand existing platform code and architecture, form opinions on its strengths and weaknesses, and define the technical roadmap with measurable goals.
Write critical-path code, refactors, performance work, and stability fixes.
Bring the Team with You: Earn team trust, guide execution by setting direction, defining standards, and unblocking complex problems.
Lead design reviews and code reviews with rigor and honesty.
Make Quality the Default: Establish development practices for testing, interfaces, service boundaries, and release discipline.
Drive observability (metrics, structured logs, tracing) and use it to find root causes.
Document architecture decisions and their reasoning.

Requirements

12+ years of relevant experience as a founding, principal, or staff engineer.
Experience building and operating a complex microservices platform in production.
Extensive distributed-systems experience, including concurrency, event-driven architectures, message buses, and their failure modes.
Experience taking over a complex codebase and measurably improving it.
Contributes code that ships to production weekly.
Thinks like a technical founder, owning outcomes for the whole system.
High emotional intelligence, able to critique designs constructively and change mind based on data.
Prefers simple solutions over clever ones.
Customer obsessed, treating customer problems as their own.
High agency, owning problems beyond job description and moving without being asked.
Truth seeking, holding strong points of view and updating them with data.
Hard work ethic, owning the end result and going beyond expectations.
High quality bar and urgency in shipping, learning from every iteration.
Gives and actively asks for honest, constructive feedback.

Skills

Go
AWS
Microservices
Distributed Systems
Observability
CI/CD systems
Workflow engines
Developer platforms
Identity and access management
Multi-tenancy
Regulated environments
LLM-powered features
MCP tooling

Location

Hybrid - Denver, CO

Work Type

Full-time
Hybrid

Experience Level

Principal
Staff Engineer
12+ years

Salary/Compensations

$200,000 - $230,000 annually

Benefits

BEE-Flexible PTO policy (unlimited vacation, sick, personal days)
Paid U.S. holidays
2 dedicated Bee-Giving Days for volunteering
Health coverage from day one (medical, dental, vision)
HSA contributions for HDHP plan participants
Competitive 401(k) company match (pre-tax and Roth options)
Fully funded Life and AD&D insurance
Fully funded Short Term Disability insurance
Fully funded Long Term Disability insurance
Fully funded Employee Assistance Program
Company-sponsored Headspace account
Dedicated Care Concierge service
Monthly stipend for work-from-home setup
Bonus plan rewarding delivered goals and growth
Stock options
Variable bonuses

About the Company

CloudBees helps organizations build, run, and govern software factories, giving enterprises the confidence to ship software better, faster, and safer.
Addresses the challenge of governing software changes without requiring teams to replace existing tools, making each change visible, auditable, and accountable before production.
Founded in 2010, backed by major investment firms.
Values: Customer Obsessed, High Agency, Truth Seeking, Hard Work, Ship Excellence, Direct Feedback.

Equal Opportunity

CloudBees is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment decisions are made based on qualifications, merit, and business need, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.