Principal Product Engineer (SaaS Engineering & Cloud Integrations)

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!

As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets. We’re driven by our vision of ‘Food and Companionship Enriching Life’ and our approach to sustainability – the Elanco Healthy Purpose™ – to advance the health of animals, people, the planet and our enterprise.

At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success. Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.

Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

Your Role: Principal Product Engineer, SaaS Engineering & Cloud Integrations

At Elanco, our empowered product teams solve hard problems—customer problems and business problems—in ways that our customers love, yet work for our business. Our product squads are cross-functional and durable, generally comprised of a product manager, a product designer, and several engineers. The Principal Engineer may serve as tech lead in a product squad. The tech lead is an individual contributor role and a peer to the product manager and product designer, where influence is achieved through technical expertise, product and customer knowledge, and business acumen. 

The Principal Engineer reports to the Engineering Director, Enterprise SaaS & Cloud Integrations, who is responsible for performance, coaching, and career development.

We staff our product teams with the skills needed to craft effective solutions. These solutions must be valuable (customers choose to buy or use), viable (the solution works within the business constraints), usable (the user can figure out how to use), and feasible (our engineers can implement with available resources). As a Principal Engineer, you'll play a key part in ensuring feasibility. You'll also actively participate in product discovery, bringing your technical expertise to shape solutions and identify opportunities.

This role emphasizes technical excellence and collaborative problem-solving. You will be a key contributor to technical design and implementation, working on challenging engineering problems.  You will work closely with your tech lead to deliver on your team’s commitments.

Your Responsibilities:

• Technical Design and Implementation:
  • Designing and implementing complex product features and improvements, contributing to technical architecture discussions.
  • Working on rapid prototypes during product discovery, exploring technical feasibility and identifying potential solutions.
  • Writing high-quality, testable, and maintainable code, following engineering best practices.
• Collaboration and Communication:
  • Collaborating closely within the product team during product discovery to identify opportunities and constraints, and help discover effective solutions.
  • Clearly communicating technical concepts and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Actively participating in code reviews, providing constructive feedback and mentoring other engineers.
• Continuous Improvement:
  • Proactively identifying and addressing areas of technical debt.
  • Staying up-to-date on new technologies and industry best practices.
  • Sharing your learnings and insights with the broader engineering community within Elanco.
• Mentoring and Coaching:
  • Mentoring and coaching other engineers on the team, fostering a culture of continuous learning and development.
  • Actively participating in code reviews, ensuring code quality, consistency, and maintainability.

What you need to succeed (minimum qualifications):

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Required Experience: 5+ years of experience developing and integrating commercial software.
• 3+ years of experience leading the technical implementation and delivery of product features
• Deep understanding of modern software development methodologies.
• Proven ability to solve hard technical problems with many constraints.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a collaborative mindset.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Elanco we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive work environment. If you think you might be a good fit for a role but don't necessarily meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. You may be the right candidate for this role or other roles!

Elanco Benefits and Perks:

We offer a comprehensive benefits package focusing on financial, physical, and mental well-being while encouraging our employees to pursue our purpose! Some highlights include:

• Multiple relocation packages
• Two weeklong shutdowns (mid-summer and year-end) in the US (in addition to PTO)
• 8-week parental leave
• 9 Employee Resource Groups
• Annual bonus offering
• Flexible work arrangements
• Up to 6% 401K matching

Elanco is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status