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Here you’ll find opportunities to innovate and support growth through individual and team development, all within an environment where every voice is heard.\nConga 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.\nRole: Principal Software Engineer\nReports to: Manager, Product Development \nLocation: Houston, TX - Boston, MA Hybrid \nAbout the role\nAs 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.\nThis 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.\nWhat you’ll do\nOwn platform identity and security\nAct as the primary technical lead for platform-level security and identity services, including authentication and authorization systems.\nLead design and development of mission-critical core services that support cross-product identity, access control, tenant context, and security standards.\nTranslate high-level architectural direction into detailed technical designs and production-ready implementations.\nEnsure platform services meet strict security, availability, performance, and reliability requirements.\nBuild the B2B and Advantage integration\nPartner with the Advantage Platform team to define and implement secure integration patterns between B2B and Advantage.\nDefine API contracts, authentication flows, authorization models, and tenant-context propagation across distributed systems.\nCoordinate cross-platform design, implementation, testing, release readiness, and operational support for shared authentication capabilities.\nLead and raise the bar\nLead and mentor a team of 5 to 8 engineers, and provide technical guidance to engineering groups beyond your own.\nProvide technical leadership through code reviews, design reviews, threat modeling, and operational readiness.\nRaise the bar on secure coding practices and platform engineering discipline.\nLead development in an Agile, CI/CD environment with a strong emphasis on automation, testability, and observability.\nPartner across Conga\nWork with Architecture and Product Security to implement and evolve security patterns, standards, and controls across the platform.\nCollaborate across B2B Platform, Advantage Platform, Architecture, Product Engineering, AI, and Product Security to deliver secure, reusable integrations.\nTranslate strategic AI pillar objectives into secure, scalable platform capabilities that can be reused across products and AI experiences.\nDocument decisions, dependencies, ownership, and operational responsibilities clearly across team boundaries.\nSupport customers and production\nLead incident investigation and resolution for security-sensitive services, including root cause analysis and long-term remediation.\nEngage directly with customers on support issues and escalations, and work through conflicting priorities with internal and external stakeholders.\nAre you the person we’re looking for?\n8+ years of backend software engineering, with a track record delivering enterprise SaaS services that operate at scale and are security-critical.\n3+ years designing, building, or operating shared identity and platform-security services used by multiple products, including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, token-based authentication, role and permission models, and policy-driven access control.\n3+ years as a technical leader or senior contributor on shared platform or infrastructure services.\nDeep experience building backend systems in a modern language such as Java, C#, Python, TypeScript, Scala, or Rust.\nStrong experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs used by multiple consumers.\nSolid experience with SQL and data stores supporting platform services.\nStrong understanding of software design patterns, distributed systems, and platform tradeoffs.\nExperience leading complex initiatives end to end: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and support.\nExperience leading technical initiatives that span multiple platforms, engineering organizations, and ownership boundaries.\nExperience leading and mentoring engineers, and influencing teams you don’t directly manage through collaboration and technical credibility.\nExperience translating strategic product or AI objectives into secure platform designs and executable delivery plans.\nComfort in customer-facing work, including support, escalations, and resolving competing stakeholder perspectives.\nStrong communication skills and executive presence. You can work effectively with Architecture, Security, Product, engineering leaders, customers, and junior engineers.\nHere’s what will give you an edge…\nExperience with Azure, AWS, or GCP, plus containerized and orchestrated environments (Docker, Kubernetes)\nExperience with Azure SQL\nMicroservices experience and familiarity with cloud-native security patterns and service-to-service communication\nExposure to DevOps and SRE practices for platform services, including monitoring, alerting, and automation\nWhy this role matters\nYou’ll be the technical leader for the identity and access capabilities that protect Conga’s entire B2B portfolio. Your work will secure the integration between the B2B and Advantage platforms, and it will define reusable authentication and authorization patterns for both product and AI experiences. You’ll also bring consistency to identity, tenant context, permissions, and service-to-service access across Conga.\nThe role comes with broad impact across multiple product teams, close alignment with Architecture and long-term platform strategy, and a clear growth path in technical leadership. You’ll help shape Conga’s security posture, engineering standards, and platform foundations.\nIn the spirit of the Conga Edge, we strive to design easy-to-understand compensation programs that are fair and free from any type of discrimination. In keeping with this approach, we are committed to delivering competitive compensation and benefits packages to our employees worldwide and communicating transparently about the structure of our compensation programs.\nListed below is the U.S. base salary range for this full-time position. Within the range, individual pay is determined by job-related skills, experience, and relevant education, or training. In addition to base salary, employees receive a variable incentive pay component, perks such as flexible work options, and a full range of benefits including medical and dental insurance. \nThe posted salary ranges are for the expectations outlined in the job description. We are often open to a wide variety of profiles and sometimes have flexibility within our organizational structure to adjust the role responsibilities up or down should we select a candidate that is less or more experienced than the posted job requirements. In these occasional cases, we will communicate the revised salary range to the candidate during the selection process.\nU.S base salary range:\n$163,380—$261,410 USD\nDid we pique your interest? \nIf this sounds like the kind of job you would love in the kind of environment where you would thrive, please click apply. We'd love to hear from you!\nPreferred Resume Format \nWe accept resumes in any format, we suggest using PDF or plain text. These formats help ensure that your resume’s formatting remains intact, making it easier for our recruiters to review your application promptly. \nDon’t meet every requirement for the role? \nStudies have shown that women and members of ethnic minorities are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Conga we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You just might be the right candidate for this or other roles. \nAdditional Information\nConga is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, parental or pregnancy status, marriage and civil partnership, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We understand interviewing can be stressful for those with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to allow you to show us your best self, please let your recruiter know as soon as possible. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Conga is not open to third party solicitation or resumes for our posted FTE positions. 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