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Principal Engineer
Location
Australia
Posted
71 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Principal Engineer
Envato
• Lead technical direction across multiple teams and services, shaping high-level architecture and ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient, and aligned with Envato’s engineering strategy. • Stay hands-on with code, contributing to key codebases, building prototypes, and validating architectural decisions through practical experimentation. • Champion an AI-first adoption across engineering. This includes evaluating AI coding agents, establishing patterns for agent-directed development, context engineering practices, and ensuring AI integration is done with appropriate engineering rigour (testing, reliability, security). • Solve complex, high-impact technical challenges across distributed systems, balancing scale, performance, and long-term maintainability. • Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to align technical decisions with business strategy and deliver solutions that create real customer and commercial value. • Elevate engineering standards across teams, guiding design reviews, sharing best practices, and helping establish consistent principles and “golden paths.” • Mentor and support Lead Engineers and senior developers, growing technical capability across the organisation through coaching and collaboration. • Drive cross-team initiatives and complex projects, influencing multiple teams to deliver cohesive, high-quality systems at scale.
Job Requirements
- Extensive experience (typically 15+ years) leading and delivering large-scale web applications.
- Proven track record of managing complex, cross-team projects from design through to release.
- Demonstrated experience with AI-assisted engineering workflows. You should be actively using AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or similar), with a strong understanding of how to adopt them effectively at an organisational level, including experience with multi-agent (swarm) orchestration development approaches.
- Strong commercial sense, with the ability to balance technical decisions against business outcomes.
- Skilled at solving ambiguous, large-scale technical problems with data-informed, objective analysis.
- A mentor at heart who has successfully grown the technical skills of senior and lead-level engineers.
Benefits
- Flexible Working: remote-first across Australia or New Zealand with flexibility for you to manage work and life as you need
- Work from Anywhere: apply to work in another location for up to 3 months per calendar year.
- Connection Budget: an annual budget to connect with the team IRL where and when possible.
- Learning Budget: study leave and an annual budget for you to put towards your learning and development.
- Home Office Allowance: a contribution towards your set-up and a monthly allowance to support work from home costs.
- Wellbeing: access to a holistic assistance program that provides support in many areas of life and health.
- Volunteer Leave: 2 days per calendar year to volunteer and give back to the community.
- Parental Leave:20 weeks paid primary carer leave, and 6 weeks paid secondary carers leave.
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