Principal Engineer Platform

Principal Software Engineer Platform Engineering

As a Principal Software Engineer on the Platform Engineering team you will provide shared technical leadership across integration platforms services and teams that enable enterprise-scale business capabilities. You are a hands-on engineer who designs builds and evolves cloud-first enterprise-grade integration solutions while influencing standards patterns and long-term technical direction across Columbia Sportswear.

You operate with a wide sphere of influence partnering closely with architects product leaders and engineers to solve complex cross-domain problems and raise the overall engineering bar for the organization.

HOW YOULL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

• Lead the technical design and architecture of enterprise integration services APIs and event-driven solutions using cloud PaaS platforms (primarily Microsoft Azure)
• Own and evolve integration standards and patterns ensuring solutions are secure scalable maintainable and observable
• Translate complex business processes into reliable software solutions that support multiple domains across the enterprise
• Operate as a senior technical leader within agile teams guiding implementation while remaining hands-on with critical code paths
• Mentor and coach engineers across levels strengthening engineering fundamentals design thinking and delivery practices
• Drive adoption of modern DevOps CI/CD and automated testing practices across integration services
• Proactively identify technical risks system gaps and architectural debt and lead initiatives to remediate them
• Partner with product owners business stakeholders and enterprise architects to communicate updates inform roadmap decisions and priority and meet business needs.

YOU ARE

• A technical authority who leads through influence not position
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous cross-team problem spaces
• A strong communicator who can articulate technical tradeoffs to both engineering and non-technical stakeholders
• Skilled and concise with asynchronous communication practices in a global team setting
• Curious pragmatic and continuously learningbalancing innovation with operational stability
• Passionate about delivering high-quality software and improving engineering culture at scale
• A proactive communicator who keeps your communication channel open between business stakeholders your teammates and enterprise architects.

YOU HAVE

• Bachelors degree in computer science Information Systems or equivalent practical experience
• 8 years of professional software engineering experience including leading or owning complex systems
• Deep experience building and operating enterprise integration services including RESTful APIs and event-driven architecture
• Proven expertise with one or more cloud platforms (Azure strongly preferred; AWS or GCP acceptable)
• Strong proficiency in modern OOP languages (C# Java ) and solid knowledge of design patterns and data structures
• Good to have Azure Architect certification
• Demonstrated experience designing for scale resilience and security in distributed systems
• Advanced experience with test automation CI/CD pipelines and production support
• Experience working within Agile at scale (portfolio-level or multi-team environments)

This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities but constitutes a general definition of the positions scope and function in the company.