# Principal Software Engineer - 11686 at Coupa

- Company: Coupa
- What the company does: Backed by Battery and ICONIQ.
- Company website: http://www.coupa.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $201K to $281K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-08
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/coupa/76b8c172-d5b3-4927-9217-9f4745b7ad24
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/coupa-principal-software-engineer-11686/

## About the role

Coupa makes margins multiply through its community-generated AI and industry-leading total spend management platform for businesses large and small. Coupa AI is informed by trillions of dollars of direct and indirect spend data across a global network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers. We empower you with the ability to predict, prescribe, and automate smarter, more profitable business decisions to improve operating margins.

## What they're looking for

- Lead the architectural evolution. Traffic is growing, functionality is expanding, robustness matters more than ever. You'll define what changes, in what order, and why
- Set the patterns: API design, microservice boundaries, deployment pipelines, monitoring, reliability. Make them real, not theoretical
- Mentor engineers. Guide decisions. Review architecture and code. Build the kind of team that ships ambitious work
- Join the Architectural Steering Group. Share what you learn with Principal Engineers across Coupa. Import what works elsewhere
- Partner with SRE on cloud-native infrastructure: CI/CD, containers, infrastructure-as-code, multi-cloud capabilities
- Own security, multi-tenancy isolation, data governance, and compliance across all regions

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