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Envestnet
Principal Software Engineer, Platform
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A Platform Engineer is responsible for the development of platforms that support the needs and use cases of different engineering teams across the organization. Creates reusable tools and workflows to streamline operational needs and facilitate automation tasks, supporting scalability of DevOps practices.
$127,373 / year median in the U.S.
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Description The application window will close August 31, 2026. Job Location The primary work location for this role is a remote work model. About Envestnet Envestnet is an adaptive WealthTech company that is redefining the future of wealth management by helping advisors meet the moment with its comprehensive technology, actionable insights, and industry leading support. Backed by over 25 years of experience and approximately $7.0 trillion in platform assets, Envestnet is trusted by over one third of financial advisors across leading banks, wealth managers, brokerages, and RIAs. For a deeper look at how Envestnet is shaping the future of financial advice, visit www.envestnet.com . The Team You'll Join You will join Envestnet's Platform Engineering organization, a strategic team building the shared cloud platforms, services, and tools that power scalable, high-performing products across the enterprise. As a Principal Engineer, you'll work alongside senior technical leaders to shape architecture, solve complex challenges, and influence engineering standards at scale—partnering closely with product and engineering teams to drive innovation and long-term growth. he team is focused on advancing modern platform capabilities, including cloud-native technologies and AI-enabled engineering practices, to improve reliability, accelerate delivery, and enhance developer experience. How You ' ll Contribute Envestnet is seeking a Principal Software Engineer, Platform to help shape and build scalable platform capabilities used across modern engineering teams. This role offers the opportunity to work with cloud technologies, reusable services, APIs, internal developer platforms, AI-enabled capabilities, modular AI components, and agentic coding workflows while influencing technical direction at enterprise scale. Defines and drives long-term technical strategy and architecture across multiple systems. Leads large-scale, high-impact initiatives that align with business objectives. Solves highly complex and ambiguous technical challenges with innovative solutions. Influences engineering standards, policies, and best practices across the organization. Acts as a key advisor to senior leadership on technology decisions. Mentors senior engineers and develops future technical leaders. Evaluates and adopts new technologies to drive innovation and competitive advantage. Ensures system scalability, reliability, and performance at enterprise scale. Champions adoption of agentic coding workflows across engineering teams to accelerate delivery velocity and improve quality throughout the SDLC. What You ' ll Need to Bring Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field required. 10+ years of application, product, or platform engineering experience, including ownership of long-term technical strategy across multiple systems. Extensive experience defining architecture for scalable, reliable, high-performing enterprise systems and large-scale infrastructure initiatives. Strong background in platform engineering, cloud platforms, modern deployment models, reusable services, APIs, and internal developer or product platforms. Experience influencing engineering standards, technical policies, best practices, architecture governance, and organization-wide technology decisions. Proven ability to solve complex and ambiguous technical challenges and advise senior leadership on technical trade-offs. Experience evaluating and adopting emerging technologies to improve scalability, reliability, performance, productivity, and competitive advantage. Strong technical background with .NET, xUnit, Reqnroll, RESTful APIs, and API management solutions such as Apigee. Experience with Postgre