Principal Software Engineer

At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time; others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely.

This is a remote position, so you’ll be working remotely from your home. You may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or meetings.

Join our team

GoDaddy’s Cloud Platforms team is hiring a Principal Software Engineer to help lead and accelerate our cloud transformation journey. This is a unique opportunity to shape the cloud platform that underpins GoDaddy’s core services and empowers developers across the company.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you’ll architect and build platform technologies that thousands of GoDaddy engineers rely on daily to support millions of small businesses around the world. If you’re passionate about creating modern, scalable solutions, fostering inclusive collaboration, and enabling innovation at scale, we want to meet you.

What you'll get to do...

As a Principal Software Engineer on the Cloud Platforms team, you’ll play a key leadership role in empowering GoDaddy’s developer community. You’ll combine deep technical expertise, hands-on development, and a collaborative leadership style to drive innovation, efficiency, and security.

Technical Leadership

• Serve as a subject matter expert across multiple technical domains
• Provide architectural guidance and establish best practices for cloud-native development on AWS
• Lead the design, planning, and implementation of company-wide tools and infrastructure
• Foster a culture of learning, curiosity, and openness to new ideas—helping the team integrate AI tools and adapt to change
• Champion inclusive decision-making, ensuring all voices are heard

Development & Engineering

• Build scalable, reliable, and secure cloud-native systems end-to-end
• Define APIs, architect compute and storage strategies, and design globally distributed applications
• Write high-quality, well-tested code with strong attention to performance and maintainability
• Leverage modern technologies including microservices, containers, serverless, and distributed architectures
• Evaluate and integrate new AWS services to continuously improve the platform

Quality & Operations

• Perform detailed code reviews and promote clean, efficient coding standards
• Participate in releases and on-call rotations to support production platforms
• Apply load testing, monitoring, and chaos engineering to ensure reliability and resilience
• Maintain comprehensive technical documentation for internal use

Collaboration & Mentorship

• Work closely with engineers and stakeholders to deliver impactful, scalable solutions
• Mentor and support engineers at all levels, fostering growth and continuous learning
• Collaborate across teams, valuing diverse perspectives and shared success
• Encourage open communication, empathy, and respect within the team

Your experience should include...

• 7+ years of software engineering experience building large-scale distributed systems
• Proficiency in multiple languages (Python, Java, Go, Node.js, or similar)
• 2+ years hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and microservices architecture
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, system design, and containerized deployments
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, testing strategies, and automated deployments
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• We recognize that career paths are diverse—if you bring equivalent experience from non-traditional backgrounds, we encourage you to apply!

You might also have...

• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker in production environments
• Agile development experience and familiarity with DevOps practices
• Exposure to AI/ML integration in developer tools
• Knowledge of LLMs and AI-enhanced development workflows
• Experience designing enterprise-grade cloud-native architectures

We've got your back...

We offer a range of total rewards that may include paid time off, retirement savings (e.g., 401k, pension schemes), bonus/incentive eligibility, equity grants, participation in our employee stock purchase plan, competitive health benefits, and other family-friendly benefits including parental leave. GoDaddy’s benefits vary based on individual role and location and can be reviewed in more detail during the interview process.

We also embrace our diverse culture and offer a range of Employee Resource Groups (Culture). Have a side hustle? No problem. We love entrepreneurs! Most importantly, come as you are and make your own way.

About us...

GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs around the world by providing the help and tools to succeed online, making opportunity more inclusive for all. GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers, sell their products and services, and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights, and people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. To learn more about the company, visit About Us.

At GoDaddy, we know diverse teams build better products—period. Our people and culture reflect and celebrate that sense of diversity and inclusion in ideas, experiences and perspectives. But we also know that’s not enough to build true equity and belonging in our communities. That’s why we prioritize integrating diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging principles into the core of how we work every day—focusing not only on our employee experience, but also our customer experience and operations. It’s the best way to serve our mission of empowering entrepreneurs everywhere, and making opportunity more inclusive for all. To read more about these commitments, as well as our representation and pay equity data, check out our Diversity and Pay Parity annual report which can be found on our Diversity Careers page.

GoDaddy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. GoDaddy will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements. Refer to our full EEO policy.

Our recruiting team is available to assist you in completing your application. If they could be helpful, please reach out to myrecruiter@godaddy.com.

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