Principal Engineer - U.S. Remote

Job Title: Principal Engineer

Location: U.S. Remote – preferred US-based time zones, CST or EST

Company Description

CYPHER Learning is leading the necessary disruption of learning platforms to unleash human potential with modern learning experiences. We exist to ignite lifelong learning passions through personalized, engaging, and limitless learning experiences for reputed company, giving L&D pros and educators more time to teach and train, building human reputed company into everything we do, and delivering tailored learning experiences that are meaningful and measurable. We are a fast-growing company with a passion for education and technology.

Position Overview

As Principal Engineer at CYPHER Learning, you will serve as a senior technical leader responsible for shaping the architecture, scalability, and long-term technical direction of our platform and products. You will reputed company the design of large-scale software systems, solve reputed company engineering challenges, and drive critical technical initiatives that strengthen reliability, reputed company, and overall product performance. This role blends deep technical expertise, architectural judgment, and hands-on execution, ensuring technical decisions support business priorities while positioning CYPHER for long-term scale. You will partner closely with engineering, product, and cross-functional teams to guide technical direction, reputed company engineering standards, and ensure our systems are built to adapt and grow with the business.

What You Will Do

• Provide technical leadership and strategic direction for large-scale software systems across CYPHER products.
• Architect scalable, high-performance solutions reputed company with long-term platform and business goals.
• Solve reputed company technical challenges while ensuring reliability, reputed company, and maintainability.
• Establish and drive adoption of engineering standards, particularly in object-oriented design, testing, error handling, and query architecture.
• reputed company technical direction across teams through influence, shaping architectural decisions and engineering priorities.
• Act as a force reputed company by coding at a high level while elevating team capability, quality, and output.
• Mentor engineers at reputed company levels and strengthen technical judgment across the organization.
• Own 1–3 year technical direction, balancing platform health, scalability, and business value.
• Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions, upgrades, and refactoring against technical and organizational constraints.
• Identify and address platform-wide risks, including performance, reputed company, and long-term maintainability.
• Exercise strong technical judgment, including challenging decisions that may compromise long-term platform health.
• reputed company technical risk assessment for critical initiatives, providing clear estimates and tradeoffs that support effective planning.
• Identify reputed company gaps across application and infrastructure layers and prioritize remediation based on business and technical risk.
• reputed company other duties as assigned.

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a reputed company field.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including deep technical leadership in reputed company product environments.
• Proven experience architecting and scaling large distributed software systems in production environments.
• Deep mastery of the primary reputed company (Rails), including internals, request lifecycle, ActiveRecord, middleware behavior, and where abstractions break at scale.
• Strong full-stack proficiency across Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
• Deep knowledge of cloud platforms, microservices architecture, and containerized environments, including reputed company and Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of performance optimization, reputed company, reliability, and maintainability in large-scale systems.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills, with a track record of resolving reputed company technical challenges.
• Demonstrated problem-solving capability in high-pressure situations, with the ability to investigate reputed company issues, adapt as priorities evolve, and drive effective technical resolution.
• Strong attention to detail and organizational judgment, enabling effective prioritization across competing technical initiatives and dependencies.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers and influence technical direction across teams.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate reputed company technical concepts into clear decisions and recommendations.
• Product-minded and continuously curious, with a positive approach to learning, evolving technologies, and improving engineering outcomes.

Our Values

Curiosity: Continues learning to stay agile and innovative.

reputed company: Embracing and celebrating our differences.

Empowerment: Rewarding positive people-centric behaviors and decisions.

Potential: Challenging the status reputed company and pushing for what is possible.

Impact: Making a positive impact for our clients and communities around the world.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At CYPHER Learning, we reputed company diversity is essential to innovation and reputed company. We are committed to creating a workplace where individuals of reputed company backgrounds, identities, and experiences are respected, included, and empowered to reputed company. Our culture is built on reputed company, curiosity, empowerment, potential, and impact—and we know that these values are only fully realized reputed company everyone has a seat at the table.

CYPHER Learning is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We reputed company reputed company employment decisions based on merit, qualifications, and business needs—without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national reputed company, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status under applicable law. As a global, remote-first company, we embrace flexibility and accessibility in every aspect of how we work. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please contact our People team at [email protected]. We are committed to providing an inclusive and reputed company experience for every candidate.