Principal Software Engineer

Overview

You will be leading a team of 30+ engineers to deliver a Traffic Management Platform with high availability, large scale and excellent usability that Intuit needs. You will work on cutting‑edge technologies such as Service Mesh, Agentic Communication Protocols and AI Gateway.

• Lead the team to innovate and deliver a secure, scalable, highly available, cost‑efficient and user friendly Traffic Management Platform.
• Ensure Engineering and Operational Excellence of the Traffic Management Platform.
• Work with Product Management to identify customer requirements and prioritize based on business outcome.
• Proactively participate in incident responses and root cause analysis, and identify opportunities for improving platform reliability and preventing future incidents.
• Design review, code review and coaching of junior team members.
• Hands‑on participation in designing, implementing, launching and maintaining end‑to‑end solutions.
• Help drive adoption of platform solutions among customers.

• BS/MS in computer science or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years of experience developing/designing cloud, web or backend software.
• Deep understanding of networking concepts, including protocols such as TCP, TLS, HTTP/1, HTTP/2, Web Socket, etc.
• Extensive experience on Service Mesh technologies such as Istio and Envoy. Experience developing Envoy filters is a plus.
• Experience working with Kubernetes.
• Experience with AWS concepts such as Route
  53, IAM, Transit Gateway, NAT Gateway, databases such as Elasti Cache and Dynamo
  
  DB.
• Programming experience with C++ or Go.
• Experience in leading and coaching junior team members.
• Ability to learn fast and move fast.

Pay offered is based on factors such as job‑related knowledge, skills, experience and work location. To drive ongoing pay equity for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.

Bay Area, California, CA: $ – $

Southern California, CA: $ – $

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Engineering and Information Technology

Software Development