Principal Software Engineer

Location Details: Colombia, remote.

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 is looking for a Principal Software Engineer full-stack to join our Developer Experience team. Engineers across GoDaddy's product teams use the platform technologies our team builds every day to help our small business customers start, grow and run their ventures. If you have the passion, enthusiasm, and ability to help power compelling web and mobile interactions for customers on their way to making their small businesses great, we would like to talk to you!

What you'll get to do...

• Write great code and create unit and integration tests that prove it.
• Participate in planning, architecture, implementation, and maintenance of client and server-side platforms and tools that engineering teams across the company depend on.
• Perform code reviews and participate in suggesting and supporting coding best practices.
• Participate in operations, release, and on-call activities in support of our platforms.
• Write, edit, and improve technical documentation.
• Engage with engineers & stakeholders across GoDaddy to solve problems with broad impact (from group-wide to company-wide impact).
• Support other engineers on the team.

Your experience should include...

• Experience working with highly agile development teams.
• 6+ years of experience as a Software Development Engineer.
• Experience with cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• You have a strong understanding of JavaScript (client and server).
• Professional experience coding in a low-level language (C/C++, Java, Rust, Golang).
• Experience designing and building highly scalable APIs and microservices.
• You have a strong understanding of modern front-end technologies such as React.
• Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
• Understanding of standard web technologies (HTTP, JSON, Network topology, etc.).
• Experience with DevOps and understanding what deployment means using systems like Docker, AWS, and/or Kubernetes.

You might also have...

• Experience building schema-driven UI.
• Experience implementing feature flagging and/or experimentation systems.
• Experience designing 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. 

GoDaddy doesn’t accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies.