Worldscape is looking for a seasoned Principal Engineer to join our expanding team. We are at the forefront of AI decision-making, working with state-of-the-art distributed architecture and data management techniques to ensure our platform delivers the right AI-driven decisions for all our customers - from individual app developers to large enterprise organizations - while enabling agentic integration across our AI fabric.

As a Principal Engineer, you will get the opportunity to lead the delivery of features across the stack for our growing list of customers. You will lead a growing technical team that works on challenging problems and develops real-time cloud solutions to unlock unprecedented insight and strategic foresight for our customers. We are looking for someone who is an experienced engineer, highly technical, hands-on, and comfortable with handling complex problems and driving solutions with multiple partner teams.

This is an onsite role that will be located in Redmond, WA.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance across frontend, backend, and cloud-based systems.
• Design and implement scalable, resilient, and maintainable full stack solutions that meet business and technical requirements.
• Lead critical technical initiatives, including platform modernization, performance optimization, and system reliability improvements.
• Serve as a technical authority and mentor for engineers, raising the overall engineering bar through design reviews, code reviews, and coaching.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Security, and Operations teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Drive best practices in software design, testing, CI/CD, observability, and operational excellence.
• Identify and resolve complex system-level issues across distributed systems and services.
• Evaluate and introduce new technologies, frameworks, and patterns where they provide clear value.
• Influence long-term technical strategy and roadmap alignment across teams and organizations.
• Ensure systems meet security, compliance, performance, and availability standards.

Professional Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• 15+ years of experience in delivering technology solutions, practical development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain (e.g., Distributed Systems)
• Proven experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems in production environments.
• Strong expertise in backend technologies (e.g., C++, C#, Python) and frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Unity, Unreal Engine).
• Deep understanding of cloud platforms and services (e.g., Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• Strong knowledge of data storage technologies, including relational and NoSQL databases.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical decisions across teams without direct authority.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and technical documentation skills.
• Passion for mentoring, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience leading architecture for mission-critical or highly regulated systems.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, event-driven architectures, and microservices patterns.
• Experience with 3D simulations or games development.
• Strong background in DevOps practices, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Expertise in security best practices, identity management, and secure system design.
• Experience with performance tuning, scalability testing, and reliability engineering.
• Excellentcommunication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and align diverse teams.
• Prior experience in a Principal, Staff, or Architect-level engineering role.

$160,000 - $200,000 a year

Final compensation will be determined based on factors such as experience, skills, and qualifications. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for performance-based bonuses and equity awards.

What we offer:

- Competitive salary and meaningful equity

- Attractive benefits package

- Flexible time off policy

- Medical, Dental and Vision insurance

- HSA health insurance options

- 401k plan

- Basic and Voluntary Life Insurance

- Fast paced environment with flexibility and ownership