Hiring: Principal Software Engineer-Student LifeCycle Services Company: Western Governors University Location: Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 10:43:00 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : API Design, Enterprise Architecture, Event-Driven, Microservices, Product Management, REST, SaaS, Systems Design, Systems Integration, User Experience, Workday About the job Required Skills: •Shape the Future of Education Through Technology •At WGU, technology is at the heart of transforming higher education. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will serve as one of the organization's foremost technical leaders, influencing the architecture, scalability, reliability, and future direction of a platform that empowers hundreds of thousands of students on their educational journey. •If you are passionate about distributed systems, modern cloud architecture, technical leadership, engineering excellence, and mentoring the next generation of technical talent, we'd love to meet you. •Lead Architecture Across the Enterprise •Define and evolve architecture strategies that span multiple engineering teams, products, and technology domains. •Strategically drive design of scalable, resilient, secure, and maintainable systems that support WGU's mission-critical education platform. •Identify opportunities to simplify and modernize existing systems while reducing operational complexity and technical debt. •Establish architectural standards, design patterns, and engineering best practices that improve consistency and quality across the organization. Qualifications: •You bring extensive experience designing and building large-scale software systems and have a proven track record of delivering architecture that balances scalability, resilience, security, and business value. •Distributed systems and cloud-native architectures •API design and system integration •Security, fault tolerance, and high-availability architectures •Software design patterns and architectural principles •Modern software development practices and DevOps principles •You see beyond individual projects and understand how technology decisions impact the broader organization. You are skilled at connecting technical strategy to business outcomes and influencing decisions across multiple stakeholders. •Technical Leader •You lead through expertise, vision, mentorship, and influence. You build trust across teams and help engineers at every level grow their technical capabilities and decision-making skills. Compensation: •$180,300 - $279,500 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!