Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Clari + Salesloft are building the next era of enterprise revenue powered by AI and real signals. The Principal Engineer will be a key member of the Product Engineering team, responsible for shaping interfaces, leading cross-functional projects, and making architecture decisions to drive technical strategy and excellence.
Responsibilities
- Shape future-proof interfaces that are easy to build against and meet the requirements of client-facing teams
- Brainstorm with Product Managers, Designers and Engineers, and other cross-functional partners to conceptualize and build new features for our growing user base
- Produce high-quality results by leading large cross-functional projects that have a significant impact on the business
- Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack, and uplevel the observability and reliability of the overall system
- Own architecture decisions across multiple teams, drive long term technical strategy, and raise the bar for engineering excellence company-wide
- Mentor Staff and Senior engineers
Skills
- 12+ years of experience in building distributed systems or platform infrastructure designed for high-scale, data-intensive workloads
- Expert-level proficiency in Java or a similar object-oriented language and familiarity with infrastructure tooling (Airflow, Kubernetes, Ray, Terraform), service frameworks (FastAPI, gRPC), and observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, Splunk)
- Deep experience with cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS or GCP, including Kubernetes clusters (GKE/EKS), serverless architectures, and managed services (e.g., Lambda, Cloud Run, ECS)
- Architected solutions requiring distributed data infrastructure: message queues (Kafka, Kinesis), caching systems (Redis, Memcached), database optimization, and building resilient, fault-tolerant architectures
- Expertise with SQL (postgres) / NoSQL (MongoDB) and data warehouse modeling; capable of optimizing complex data queries, joins, aggregations, and transformations
- Solid improvements of platform monitoring and optimizations, including identifying performance bottlenecks, latency optimization, cost management, and scaling high-throughput API services efficiently
Benefits
- Performance bonus
- Benefits
- Other applicable incentive compensation plans
Company Overview
Our industry-leading Revenue Orchestration Platform uses purpose-built AI to help teams prioritize and take action on what matters most. It is a sub-organization of Clari. It was founded in 2011, and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is http://salesloft.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Salesloft has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 4 in 2025, 5 in 2024, 2 in 2023, 4 in 2022, 4 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.