[Remote] Principal Engineer - Clari Core

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.ResponsibilitiesShape future-proof interfaces that are easy to build against and meet the requirements of client-facing teamsBrainstorm with Product Managers, Designers and Engineers, and other cross-functional partners to conceptualize and build new features for our growing user baseProduce high-quality results by leading large cross-functional projects that have a significant impact on the businessDebug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack, and uplevel the observability and reliability of the overall systemOwn architecture decisions across multiple teams, drive long term technical strategy, and raise the bar for engineering excellence company-wideMentor Staff and Senior engineersSkills12+ years of experience in building distributed systems or platform infrastructure designed for high-scale, data-intensive workloadsExpert-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 architecturesExpertise with SQL (postgres) / NoSQL (MongoDB) and data warehouse modeling; capable of optimizing complex data queries, joins, aggregations, and transformationsSolid improvements of platform monitoring and optimizations, including identifying performance bottlenecks, latency optimization, cost management, and scaling high-throughput API services efficientlyBenefitsPerformance bonusBenefitsOther applicable incentive compensation plansCompany OverviewOur 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 SponsorshipSalesloft 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.