Principal Software Engineer

At Digital Turbine, we make mobile advertising experiences more meaningful and rewarding for users, app publishers, and advertisers — intelligently connecting people in more ways, across more devices. We provide app publishers and advertisers with powerful ads and experiences that captivate consumers, fuel performance, and help telecoms and OEMs supercharge awareness, acquisition, and monetization. In a rapidly evolving industry, we are constantly innovating and creating better paths of discovery to connect consumers, publishers, and advertisers across the mobile ecosystem.

Please note that Digital Turbine is a hybrid work environment-only candidates local to the posting location will be considered.

At Digital Turbine, we make mobile advertising experiences more meaningful and rewarding for users, app publishers, and advertisers — intelligently connecting people in more ways, across more devices. We provide app publishers and advertisers with powerful ads and experiences that captivate consumers, fuel performance, and help telecoms and OEMs supercharge awareness, acquisition, and monetization. In a rapidly evolving industry, we are constantly innovating and creating better paths of discovery to connect consumers, publishers, and advertisers across the mobile ecosystem

Please note that Digital Turbine is a hybrid work environment – only candidates local to the posting location will be considered

About the Principal Software Engineer Role

• As a Principal Software Engineer, you will define and champion the technical vision and strategy for major product areas or critical infrastructure

• You will lead the design and implementation of highly complex, cross-functional software systems that have significant organizational impact

• You will provide expert technical guidance and mentorship to Lead and Senior Software Engineers, fostering their growth and development

• You will identify and resolve the most challenging technical problems, often involving multiple systems or ambiguous requirements

• You will collaborate with executive leadership, product management, and other stakeholders to align technical strategy with business goals and drive the adoption of innovative technologies, architectural patterns, and engineering best practices across the organization

• You will be accountable for the overall technical quality, performance, and scalability of large-scale systems or platforms under your ownership

About you as the Principal Software Engineer

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field and a minimum of 12 years of related experience; or  an advanced degree without experience; or  equivalent work experience.

• Extensive and deep expertise across multiple large-scale technical domains, such as distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or highly scalable architectures

• Recognized as a top expert who drives architectural decisions with company-wide impact and sets technical direction for major initiatives

• Demonstrated ability to solve the most challenging and undefined technical problems, often requiring novel approaches, and to foresee and mitigate risks at an organizational level

• Strong ability to shape technical culture, communicate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences (including executives), and influence engineering practices across teams

• Proven track record of driving significant technical shifts or transformations and mentoring senior engineers and technical leaders

About Digital Turbine:

Digital Turbine (NASDAQ: APPS) powers superior mobile consumer experiences and results for the world’s leading telcos, advertisers and publishers. Our end-to-end platform uniquely simplifies the ability to supercharge awareness, acquisition and monetization — connecting our partners to more consumers, in more ways, across more devices.

The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with global offices in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Berlin, Singapore, Tel Aviv, and other cities around the world, serving top agency, app developer, and advertising markets.

We are honored to have achieved numerous awards as an employer of choice, around the world, including: BuiltIn's Best Places to Work Awards in 2022, 2023 and 2024, DUNS 100 Best Places to Work in Tech for 2023 and 2024, and BDICode's 100 Best Companies to Work in 2024.

Digital Turbine is an equal opportunity employer committed to exemplifying diversity and inclusion around the world. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We embed diversity in our mindset, products, and teams to empower an inclusive, equitable, and culturally fluent environment. Building and continuously fostering this culture within our teams makes us better collaborators, partners, and innovators.

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