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Principal Software EngineerNu Skin • Provo, Utah, USA
Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer

Nu Skin • Provo, Utah, USA
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We are looking to hire a Principal Software Engineer at our Provo Utah offices.

Position Overview

The Principal Software Engineer is a senior technical leader responsible for designing building and guiding the development of scalable high-performance systems across our global digital and enterprise platforms. This role sets technical direction mentors engineering teams drives architectural excellence and ensures that software solutions align with long-term business and technology strategy.

You will collaborate closely with Enterprise Architecture Platform Engineering Product Engineering InfoSec and cross-functional teams to deliver robust modern cloud-native systems that power our enterprise applications commerce ecosystem and next-generation digital experiences.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

  • Define and drive the technical strategy and architecture for mission-critical systems.
  • Lead complex architectural and design discussions ensuring systems are scalable resilient secure and cost-efficient.
  • Evaluate and implement modern technologies frameworks and tools.
  • Guide system architecture reviews focused on reliability observability maintainability and performance.

Hands-On Engineering

  • Write high-quality production-ready code as needed and set engineering standards by example.
  • Build distributed systems microservices serverless applications and event-driven architectures.
  • Deliver highly performant solutions that operate at global scale.
  • Drive best practices for code quality automated testing and operational excellence.
  • Collaboration & Influence

  • Serve as a technical advisor to engineering managers product teams and enterprise stakeholders.
  • Work closely with Enterprise Architects to align platforms and long-term modernization initiatives.
  • Collaborate with globally distributed teams to uplift technical quality and accelerate delivery.
  • Participate in major technology decisions incident reviews and critical system design sessions.
  • Mentorship & Guidance

  • Mentor senior and mid-level engineers developing strong technical expertise within the teams.
  • Provide code review leadership and enforce architectural and engineering standards.
  • Foster a culture of continuous learning accountability and technical excellence.
  • Innovation & Improvement

  • Lead adoption of modern engineering practices including IaC CI / CD observability and automation.
  • Explore and introduce emerging technologies (AI / ML LLMs event streaming serverless patterns).
  • Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt and simplify system complexity.
  • Improve developer experience through tooling patterns and platform engineering initiatives.
  • Qualifications

  • 10 years of professional software development experience.
  • Expert-level proficiency in and Python (both required).
  • Deep AWS experience is a must including hands-on architecture and implementation (preferred : Lambda API Gateway ECS / EKS EventBridge DynamoDB S3 SNS / SQS CloudFormation / CDK IAM).
  • Strong experience designing and operating distributed systems and microservices.
  • Strong understanding of event-driven architectures.
  • Hands-on experience with containers Kubernetes / EKS or serverless applications.
  • Strong experience with SQL and NoSQL data stores caching strategies and performance optimization.
  • Expertise in observability (CloudWatch OpenTelemetry X-Ray distributed tracing).
  • Proven ability to lead system design architecture reviews and complex technical decision-making.
  • Preferred

  • Experience working in large-scale enterprise environments.
  • Experience with message / event systems such as Kafka EventBridge SQS SNS RabbitMQ or RocketMQ.
  • Experience with GraphQL REST API best practices and designing high-throughput APIs.
  • Familiarity with AI / ML or LLM-driven system integrations (RAG vector DBs model inference).
  • Experience mentoring engineering teams and influencing outcomes without authority.
  • Strong familiarity with domain-driven design (DDD) hexagonal architecture and modern DevOps practices.
  • Soft Skills

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to explain complex concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Strong leadership presence and the ability to drive alignment across teams.
  • High ownership mentality and an outcome-driven mindset.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced ambiguous and evolving environment.
  • Our Benefits & Perks :

    You will be part of an engaged inclusive global community that values family giving back beauty and sustainability. We offer competitive benefits to eligible employees with comprehensive medical vision and dental coverage; supplemental life short-term and disability insurance; free access to health coaches therapists and an onsite fitness center; a health savings account & 401k with company match; an incentive bonus program; and access to our top-quality beauty & wellness products. Youll also be empowered to prioritize whats important to you through flexible work arrangements and a generous vacation policy. Thinking about expanding your family We have generous maternity and paternity leave too.

    Our Commitment :

    We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer seeking diversity in qualified applicants for employment. At Nu Skin we strive to create an environment where success is independent of race ethnicity age gender identity gender expression sexual orientation religion national origin ancestry genetic information medical condition disability marital or veteran status or any other legally protected status.

    Applicants with disabilities who need assistance with the application process may be entitled to reasonable accommodation in accordance with applicable law. If you need assistance in completing an application or participating in an interview because of a disability please contact our Talent Acquisition team at

    Information you provide on your application will be processed according to our Privacy Policy which is available for you to review at For questions about this policy please contact us at

    Required Experience :

    Staff IC

    Key Skills

    Continuous Integration,Docker,Jenkins,Python,System Design,Agile,C / C++,Go,Systems Engineering,Software Development,Java,Distributed Systems

    Employment Type : Full-Time

    Experience : years

    Vacancy : 1

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