SalesLoft

Principal Engineer - Clari Core

SalesLoft$238K — $265K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Information Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of experience in building distributed systems or platform infrastructure for high-scale, data-intensive workloads.
  • Expert-level proficiency in Java or a similar object-oriented language.
  • Familiarity with infrastructure tooling like Airflow, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
  • Deep experience with cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS or GCP.
  • Architected solutions involving distributed data infrastructure, including message queues and caching systems.
  • Expertise in SQL (Postgres) and NoSQL (MongoDB), with strong data modeling skills.

Responsibilities

  • Shape user-friendly interfaces that meet client-facing team requirements.
  • Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, and cross-functional partners to build new features.
  • Lead large cross-functional projects that significantly impact the business.
  • Debug production issues across services and enhance system reliability.
  • Own architecture decisions and drive long-term technical strategy across teams.
  • Mentor Staff and Senior engineers to elevate overall engineering excellence.

Benefits

  • Work alongside a skilled team committed to innovation and excellence.
  • Opportunity to make a significant impact on the software used in sales processes.
  • Culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
  • Access to cutting-edge technologies in a dynamic work environment.
Full Job Description
THE OPPORTUNITY:

At Clari + Salesloft, our Principal Engineer will be pivotal to our company's success. You will be a key member of our fast-growing and high-performing Product Engineering org. We are looking for experienced Principal Engineers who can help realize Clari + Salesloft vision with their passion and proven track record of excellence and innovation. We are looking for engineers who are passionate about their work and who thrive working on leading-edge cloud-based technologies to develop ground-breaking AI-driven enterprise-grade applications.

On a day-to-day basis, you will be responsible to -
  • 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

In addition to working with amazing colleagues who exemplify our 'team over self' core value, you will also have the opportunity to work on impactful and revolutionary software that is changing the way sellers sell. You will have an opportunity to make a difference.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

We are seeking Principal Software Engineers who would be Working on cutting-edge technologies alongside a highly motivated and skilled team eager to learn and grow together

If you're looking for an opportunity to learn more, do more, and become more, then becoming a Principal Software Engineer is the career path for you!

THE TEAM:

The Engineering Team at Clari + Salesloft is deeply committed to building an enterprise-grade platform that serves as the backbone for our customer's most critical business process - Revenue. With an unrelenting commitment to innovation, our mission is to craft the ultimate revenue intelligence platform for our customers. Rooted in Agile principles, we foster a culture of adaptability and efficiency across all our teams. If you're energized by the prospect of contributing to a dynamic environment that emphasizes collaboration, continuous improvement, and leveraging the forefront of technology to address customer needs, we would love to meet you.

THE SKILL SET:
  • 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

It is Clari + Salesloft's intent to pay all Lofters competitive wages and salaries that are motivational, fair and equitable. The goal of Clari + Salesloft's compensation program is to be transparent, attract potential employees, meet the needs of all current employees and encourage employees to stay with our organization.

Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location.

The total compensation package for this position may also include performance bonus, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans.

Base Pay Range

$238,000-$265,000 USD

About SalesLoft

SalesLoft is a sales engagement platform that helps sales organizations deliver better selling experiences. SalesLoft's platform provides salespeople with the tools they need to connect with customers, build relationships, and close deals. SalesLoft's customers include companies of all sizes, from startups to Fortune 500 companies. SalesLoft was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. SalesLoft has raised over $145 million in funding to date.
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500 employees
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Founded
2011

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