Principal Engineer - Clari Core

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

Clari + Salesloft are building the next era of enterprise revenue — one where teams make confident decisions powered by AI and real signals. By combining our scale, insights, and AI innovation, we’re building the industry’s first Predictive Revenue System, enabling humans and AI to work together to make smarter decisions and drive consistent growth.

With thousands of customers using our platforms every day, we have an unmatched view into how revenue is actually won — the Revenue Context that reveals what happens, when, and with what outcome. This gives us a unique opportunity to transform an entire category and set a new benchmark for how modern revenue teams operate.

Join us to help transform how companies around the world run revenue — and build the platform that will guide leading revenue teams into the future.

THE OPPORTUNITY:

At Clari + Salesloft, our Principal Engineer will be pivotal to our company’s success. You will be a key member of our fast-growing and high-performing Product Engineering org. We are looking for experienced Principal Engineers who can help realize Clari + Salesloft vision with their passion and proven track record of excellence and innovation. We are looking for engineers who are passionate about their work and who thrive working on leading-edge cloud-based technologies to develop ground-breaking AI-driven enterprise-grade applications.

On a day-to-day basis, you will be responsible to -

  • Shape future-proof interfaces that are easy to build against and meet the requirements of client-facing teams
  • Brainstorm with Product Managers, Designers and Engineers, and other cross-functional partners to conceptualize and build new features for our growing user base
  • Produce high-quality results by leading large cross-functional projects that have a significant impact on the business
  • Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack, and uplevel the observability and reliability of the overall system
  • Own architecture decisions across multiple teams, drive long term technical strategy, and raise the bar for engineering excellence company-wide
  • Mentor Staff and Senior engineers 

In addition to working with amazing colleagues who exemplify our ‘team over self’ core value, you will also have the opportunity to work on impactful and revolutionary software that is changing the way sellers sell. You will have an opportunity to make a difference. 

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

We are seeking Principal Software Engineers who would be Working on cutting-edge technologies alongside a highly motivated and skilled team eager to learn and grow together

If you’re looking for an opportunity to learn more, do more, and become more, then becoming a Principal Software Engineer is the career path for you!

THE TEAM:

The Engineering Team at Clari + Salesloft is deeply committed to building an enterprise-grade platform that serves as the backbone for our customer’s most critical business process - Revenue. With an unrelenting commitment to innovation, our mission is to craft the ultimate revenue intelligence platform for our customers. Rooted in Agile principles, we foster a culture of adaptability and efficiency across all our teams. If you’re energized by the prospect of contributing to a dynamic environment that emphasizes collaboration, continuous improvement, and leveraging the forefront of technology to address customer needs, we would love to meet you.

THE SKILL SET:

  • 12+ years of experience in building distributed systems or platform infrastructure designed for high-scale, data-intensive workloads
  • Expert-level proficiency in Java or a similar object-oriented language and familiarity with infrastructure tooling (Airflow, Kubernetes, Ray, Terraform), service frameworks (FastAPI, gRPC), and observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, Splunk)
  • Deep experience with cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS or GCP, including Kubernetes clusters (GKE/EKS), serverless architectures, and managed services (e.g., Lambda, Cloud Run, ECS)
  • Architected solutions requiring distributed data infrastructure: message queues (Kafka, Kinesis), caching systems (Redis, Memcached), database optimization, and building resilient, fault-tolerant architectures
  • Expertise with SQL (postgres) / NoSQL (MongoDB) and data warehouse modeling; capable of optimizing complex data queries, joins, aggregations, and transformations
  • Solid improvements of platform monitoring and optimizations, including identifying performance bottlenecks, latency optimization, cost management, and scaling high-throughput API services efficiently

At Clari + Salesloft, we are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive workplace where everyone belongs and can thrive. We focus on culture add, not culture fit, and believe our teams are made stronger by the unique perspectives, experiences, and identities each person brings.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and provide employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you’re excited about this role even though your experience may not perfectly match every requirement, we encourage you to apply. We are actively hiring across multiple geographies and would love to welcome passionate, curious, and mission-driven individuals to our growing team. Explore our open roles and consider joining us!

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Please note that all official communication regarding job opportunities at Clari + Salesloft will come from an @clari.com  or @ salesloft.com email address. If you receive messages on LinkedIn or other job platforms claiming to be from Clari + Salesloft, they may not be legitimate. To verify the authenticity of any job-related communication, please visit our official Careers Page.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, notetaking, or summarizing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment — all hiring decisions are made by people. If you would like more information about how your data is processed or prefer to opt out of any AI-assisted tools, please let your recruiter know. Opting out will not impact your experience or consideration.

It is Clari + Salesloft’s intent to pay all Lofters competitive wages and salaries that are motivational, fair and equitable.  The goal of Clari + Salesloft’s compensation program is to be transparent, attract potential employees, meet the needs of all current employees and encourage employees to stay with our organization.  

Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location.

The total compensation package for this position may also include performance bonus, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. 

Base Pay Range

$238,000—$265,000 USD

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