# Principal Software Engineer

**Company**: Instructure
**Location**: Budapest, Hungary
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to set architectural direction across the Assessments group at Instructure. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will own the architectural direction across multiple domains, including Canvas by Instructure and Mastery, and several services and third-party integrations.

Responsibilities:

- Set architectural direction across Assessments domains, and keep it aligned with the wider engineering strategy.

- Own decisions end to end, bringing recommendations, getting alignment, and driving them to resolution with a date attached.

- Write and maintain technical specifications, design records, and decision documents that other teams build against.

- Define the boundaries between our services and adjacent domains, including core platform, data, quality engineering, and security.

- Collaborate with your director to lead build-versus-buy evaluations with third-party vendors and document commitments.

- Coach and sponsor senior and staff engineers to take on architectural work themselves.

- Set the standard for using AI in engineering work and share best practices.

- Shape reliability and testing strategy across the group and reduce repeated on-call load.

Requirements:

- 10 or more years of building and operating production software, with several years at staff level or above.

- A track record of driving architecture decisions to completion across multiple teams.

- Clear technical writing skills that make complex trade-offs legible to engineers, product, and executives.

- Evidence of growing other senior engineers through mentoring, sponsorship, or both.

- Proficiency with building and maintaining software on cloud-native platforms, preferably AWS.

- Comfort with ambiguity, including defining problems before solving them.

- Good judgment about scope and delegation of work.

Nice to have:

- Experience with assessment, learning, or education technology systems.

- Experience consolidating or replacing legacy systems while they remain in production.

- Multi-tenant, sharded, or high-volume platform experience.

- Experience with Ruby on Rails.

Benefits:

- Competitive compensation and ownership program.

- Flexible work culture with remote, hybrid, and in-office collaboration spaces.

- Generous time off, including local holidays and an annual 'Dim the Lights' period.

- Comprehensive wellness programs and mental health support.

- Learning and development resources, including professional development tools and tuition reimbursement.

- Technology and tools needed to do your best work.

- Motivosity employee recognition program.

- Culture rooted in inclusivity, support, and meaningful connection.

## Skills

### Required
- cloud-native platforms
- technical writing
- architecture decisions
- mentoring
- sponsorship
- AWS

### Nice to have
- assessment technology
- legacy system consolidation
- multi-tenant platforms
- Ruby on Rails

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