Senior Principal Software Engineer

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At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time, others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely.

This position may be a hybrid or fully remote position, as decided by your manager. If designated as hybrid, you’ll divide your time between working remotely from your home and an office location, so you should live within commuting distance. If designated as remote, you’ll be working remotely from your home and may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or meetings. Your hiring manager can share more about this role’s hybrid or remote designation.

This position is not eligible to be performed in Alaska, Mississippi, North Dakota, or the Virgin Islands.

Join Our Team

As a Sr. Principal Engineer of the Site Platform team, you will be building the future for GoDaddy’s public web presence and customer shopping experience. Your code and solutions will be used throughout the GoDaddy engineering ecosystem and across multiple brands.

This is a hands-on role and requires leading through example by delivering well-factored, well-tested, and reusable code that will last and adapt to changing needs. To accomplish this, you will partner across multiple engineering teams to drive technical solutions and architecture for new and complex functions.

This role requires a full-stack engineer who has proven experience designing and implementing system level integrations, coordinating transactions and rollback strategies, as well as familiarity with modern front-end web development technologies such as React, Node.js, etc.

What you'll get to do...

• Set the technical direction of highly visible cross-organizational initiatives that require coordination with multiple stakeholders across disciplines including Senior Leadership.
• Mentor, lead, and influence engineers to ensure the success of collaborative solutions.
• Write efficient, maintainable code, validated with unit and integration tests.
• Perform code reviews that reinforce a high standard of quality and engineering excellence.
• Contribute to Open Source projects related to the tech stack and domain of our products. Work fearlessly, try new things, and share your failures and successes with the team.

Your experience should include...

• Experience in all aspects of software engineering lifecycles including inception, proof of concepts, and fully launching production software for public use.
• Demonstrated cross functional capabilities (Marketing, Engineering, Product Management)
• Proven experience mentoring and assisting team members grow their expertise and ability.
• Strong understanding of the fundamentals of core web technologies: JavaScript (ES2015+), HTTP/2, CDNs, and working with multiple caching layers.
• Experience with React and/or Node.js
• 10+ years of professional Agile software development experience.
• Consistent track record of delivering modern web service based architecture (REST, GraphQL, etc)
• Experience with Cloud Platforms (such as AWS), CICD Pipelines (such as Jenkins and GitHub Actions), Kubernetes.
• Experience managing or contributing to Open Source is a plus. (Send us a link to your GitHub!)

You might also have...

• Experience developing or working with headless Content Management Systems (CMS) (such as ContentStack or Contentful).
• Experience with experimentation strategies such as A/B or multivariate testing.

We've got your back...  We offer a range of total rewards that may include paid time off, retirement savings (e.g., 401k, pension schemes), bonus/incentive eligibility, equity grants, participation in our employee stock purchase plan, competitive health benefits, and other family-friendly benefits including parental leave. GoDaddy’s benefits vary based on individual role and location and can be reviewed in more detail during the interview process.

We also embrace our diverse culture and offer a range of Employee Resource Groups (Culture). Have a side hustle? No problem. We love entrepreneurs! Most importantly, come as you are and make your own way. 

About us...  GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs around the world by providing the help and tools to succeed online, making opportunity more inclusive for all. GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers, sell their products and services, and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights, and people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. To learn more about the company, visit About Us. 

At GoDaddy, we know diverse teams build better products—period. Our people and culture reflect and celebrate that sense of diversity and inclusion in ideas, experiences and perspectives. But we also know that’s not enough to build true equity and belonging in our communities. That’s why we prioritize integrating diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging principles into the core of how we work every day—focusing not only on our employee experience, but also our customer experience and operations. It’s the best way to serve our mission of empowering entrepreneurs everywhere, and making opportunity more inclusive for all. To read more about these commitments, as well as our representation and pay equity data, check out our Diversity and Pay Parity annual report which can be found on our Diversity Careers page.

GoDaddy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. GoDaddy will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements. Refer to our full EEO policy.

Our recruiting team is available to assist you in completing your application. If they could be helpful, please reach out to [email protected]. 

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