Principal Software Engineer
Conga
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A career that’s the whole package! At Conga, we’ve built a community where our colleagues can thrive. Here you’ll find opportunities to innovate and support growth through individual and team development, all within an environment where every voice is heard. Conga lines up commercial operations so companies run as connected, smarter businesses. By unifying the people and processes that drive commerce, Conga aligns pricing, quoting, contracting, rebates, and communications so teams stay in sync and buyers keep moving forward. The result is trusted decisions, consistent buyer experiences, and profitable growth. More than 10,000 customers worldwide, including over 50% of the Fortune 100®, trust Conga when commercial complexity is high and global impact is on the line. Role: Principal Software Engineer Reports to: Manager, Product Development Location: Houston, TX - Boston, MA Hybrid About the role As a Principal Software Engineer on Conga’s B2B Platform Engineering, Core Services team, you’ll own the security, identity, and access management capabilities that every Conga B2B product is built on. You’ll lead a team of 5 to 8 engineers, set technical direction for authentication and authorization across the platform, and serve as a key technical partner to the Advantage Platform organization. Together with Advantage, you’ll establish secure, reusable integration patterns between the two platforms. This is a senior, hands-on role for an engineer who wants influence beyond a single product team. You’ll work in a highly connected environment, on a small team that supports a large customer base. That means ramping quickly, building trust across groups, and shaping shared security services used throughout Conga’s platform ecosystem. What you’ll do Own platform identity and security Act as the primary technical lead for platform-level security and identity services, including authentication and authorization systems. Lead design and development of mission-critical core services that support cross-product identity, access control, tenant context, and security standards. Translate high-level architectural direction into detailed technical designs and production-ready implementations. Ensure platform services meet strict security, availability, performance, and reliability requirements. Build the B2B and Advantage integration Partner with the Advantage Platform team to define and implement secure integration patterns between B2B and Advantage. Define API contracts, authentication flows, authorization models, and tenant-context propagation across distributed systems. Coordinate cross-platform design, implementation, testing, release readiness, and operational support for shared authentication capabilities. Lead and raise the bar Lead and mentor a team of 5 to 8 engineers, and provide technical guidance to engineering groups beyond your own. Provide technical leadership through code reviews, design reviews, threat modeling, and operational readiness. Raise the bar on secure coding practices and platform engineering discipline. Lead development in an Agile, CI/CD environment with a strong emphasis on automation, testability, and observability. Partner across Conga Work with Architecture and Product Security to implement and evolve security patterns, standards, and controls across the platform. Collaborate across B2B Platform, Advantage Platform, Architecture, Product Engineering, AI, and Product Security to deliver secure, reusable integrations. Translate strategic AI pillar objectives into secure, scalable platform capabilities that can be reused across products and AI experiences. Document decisions, dependencies, ownership, and operational responsibilities clearly across team boundaries. Support customers and production Lead incident investigation and resolution for security-sensitive services, including root cause analysis and long-term remediation. Engage directly with customers on support issues and escalations, and work through…