Principal Software Engineer

About the role

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in delivering high quality releases to our customers by defining application architecture, designing, developing, troubleshooting, maintaining, optimizing, and scaling BlackLine's cloud-based backend services and driving innovation into our product suite.

What you'll do

• Technical Strategy & Vision
• Define and own the multi-year technical strategy and architecture roadmap for the Agentic AI platform across all product lines
• Make build-vs-buy, technology selection and platform investment decisions, and present the trade-offs, risks and ROI to executive leadership
• Track the agentic AI landscape: frameworks, protocols, models, regulation. Turn those shifts into strategic bets and platform direction
• Identify new opportunities where AI can deliver business value across product areas, and shape them into fundable programs

What you need

• 18–30 yrs of experience
• Python
• AWS
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• LLMs
• System design
• Any graduate

Good to have

• SOX
• IPR
• GCP
• Azure
• Machine learning
• Month-end close