Core Responsibilities
The Principal Engineer's focus shifts from project-level delivery to company-wide strategic impact and vision setting:
- Strategic Design and Development:
- Defines the high-level architecture and long-term technical roadmap for large-scale, distributed systems that span multiple teams or business units.
- Acts as the final decision-maker on complex system design trade-offs, ensuring scalability, performance, and security across the platform.
- Company-wide Problem-Solving:
- Independently tackles the most ambiguous and complex technical challenges that have no clear owner, setting the standard for technical excellence and innovation.
- Drives initiatives to significantly improve overall code performance, system efficiency, and foundational infrastructure health across the organization.
- Technical Governance and Code Quality:
- Establishes technical standards and best practices that influence the work of many engineering teams.
- Mentors senior engineers (SDE 3s) and holds a deep responsibility for the quality, reliability, and maintainability of the company's core systems.
- Collaboration and Influence:
- Works directly with executive leadership, product managers, and engineering directors to influence business strategy through technical expertise.
- Influences the work of many engineers across organizational boundaries, securing alignment on critical technical initiatives.
- Operational Excellence:
- Responsible for the long-term operational health and resilience of critical, company-wide services.
- Designs and advocates for architectural changes that reduce operational toil and improve on-call responsiveness at scale.
Top Skills
What We Do
GTT is a managed network and security services provider to global organizations. We design and deliver solutions that leverage advanced cloud, networking and security technologies. We complement our solutions with a suite of professional services and exceptional support teams in local markets around the world. We serve thousands of national and multinational companies with a portfolio that includes SD-WAN, security, Internet, voice and other connectivity options. Our services are uniquely enabled by our top-ranked, global, Tier 1 IP backbone, which spans more than 260 cities on six continents. The company culture is built on a customer-first service experience reinforced by our commitment to operational excellence and continuous improvement in our business, environmental, social and governance practices. For more information, visit www.gtt.net.
