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# Principal Software Engineer at Conga

- **Company:** Conga
- **Location:** Canada / United States / Boston, MA / Houston, TX
- **Compensation:** $163k–$261k
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-27
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/conga/jobs/5273100007

## Job description

A career that’s the whole package!

At Conga, we’ve built a community where our colleagues can thrive. Here you’ll find opportunities to innovate and support growth through individual and team development, all within an environment where every voice is heard.

Conga 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.

Role: Principal Software Engineer Reports to: Manager, Product Development Location: Houston, TX - Boston, MA Hybrid

## About the role

As 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.

This 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.

## What you’ll do

Own platform identity and security

- Act as the primary technical lead for platform-level security and identity services, including authentication and authorization systems.
- Lead design and development of mission-critical core services that support cross-product identity, access control, tenant context, and security standards.
- Translate high-level architectural direction into detailed technical designs and production-ready implementations.
- Ensure platform services meet strict security, availability, performance, and reliability requirements.

Build the B2B and Advantage integration

- Partner with the Advantage Platform team to define and implement secure integration patterns between B2B and Advantage.
- Define API contracts, authentication flows, authorization models, and tenant-context propagation across distributed systems.
- Coordinate cross-platform design, implementation, testing, release readiness, and operational support for shared authentication capabilities.

Lead and raise the bar

- Lead and mentor a team of 5 to 8 engineers, and provide technical guidance to engineering groups beyond your own.
- Provide technical leadership through code reviews, design reviews, threat modeling, and operational readiness.
- Raise the bar on secure coding practices and platform engineering discipline.
- Lead development in an Agile, CI/CD environment with a strong emphasis on automation, testability, and observability.

Partner across Conga

- Work with Architecture and Product Security to implement and evolve security patterns, standards, and controls across the platform.
- Collaborate across B2B Platform, Advantage Platform, Architecture, Product Engineering, AI, and Product Security to deliver secure, reusable integrations.
- Translate strategic AI pillar objectives into secure, scalable platform capabilities that can be reused across products and AI experiences.
- Document decisions, dependencies, ownership, and operational responsibilities clearly across team boundaries.

Support customers and production

- Lead incident investigation and resolution for security-sensitive services, including root cause analysis and long-term remediation.
- Engage directly with customers on support issues and escalations, and work through conflicting priorities with internal and external stakeholders.

Are you the person we’re looking for?

- 8+ years of backend software engineering, with a track record delivering enterprise SaaS services that operate at scale and are security-critical.
- 3+ 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.
- 3+ years as a technical leader or senior contributor on shared platform or infrastructure services.
- Deep experience building backend systems in a modern language such as Java, C#, Python, TypeScript, Scala, or Rust.
- Strong experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs used by multiple consumers.
- Solid experience with SQL and data stores supporting platform services.
- Strong understanding of software design patterns, distributed systems, and platform tradeoffs.
- Experience leading complex initiatives end to end: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and support.
- Experience leading technical initiatives that span multiple platforms, engineering organizations, and ownership boundaries.
- Experience leading and mentoring engineers, and influencing teams you don’t directly manage through collaboration and technical credibility.
- Experience translating strategic product or AI objectives into secure platform designs and executable delivery plans.
- Comfort in customer-facing work, including support, escalations, and resolving competing stakeholder perspectives.
- Strong communication skills and executive presence. You can work effectively with Architecture, Security, Product, engineering leaders, customers, and junior engineers.

Here’s what will give you an edge…

- Experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP, plus containerized and orchestrated environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience with Azure SQL
- Microservices experience and familiarity with cloud-native security patterns and service-to-service communication
- Exposure to DevOps and SRE practices for platform services, including monitoring, alerting, and automation

## Why this role matters

You’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.

The 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.

In 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.

Listed 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.

The 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.

U.S base salary range: $163,380—$261,410 USD

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## Preferred Resume Format

We 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.

Don’t meet every requirement for the role?

Studies 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.

Additional Information

Conga 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. Resumes received from third party agencies that are unsolicited will be considered complimentary.

Conga's Applicant Privacy Statement

The information you provide during the application process will be used in accordance with Conga’s Applicant Privacy Statement (https://conga.com/applicant-privacy-statement). By submitting your application, you acknowledge and agree to the terms outlined in this privacy statement.

## About Conga

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Conga provides a unified revenue lifecycle management platform that aligns pricing, quoting, contracting, rebates, and communications to help companies streamline complex commercial operations.
- **Entity Type**: Private (growth stage, backed by private equity; no public ticker)
- **Headquarters**: Broomfield, Colorado, USA (with offices in Kitchener, Canada; Chennai, India; and Indianapolis, USA)
- **Founded**: 2006
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Revenue Lifecycle Management (RLM) — encompassing CPQ, CLM, document automation, pricing, and rebate management.
- **Target customers**: B2B, serving both mid-market and enterprise companies (over 50% of the Fortune 100 use Conga).
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Conga crushes complexity, enabling companies to make the most out of every revenue opportunity.”

## Products & Services
- **Conga CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote)**: SaaS solution for automating complex quoting and pricing workflows.
- **Conga CLM (Contract Lifecycle Management)**: SaaS for creating, negotiating, and managing contracts with AI-driven insights.
- **Conga Document Automation**: SaaS for generating, customizing, and distributing documents (proposals, contracts, invoices).
- **Conga Pricing**: AI-powered pricing optimization and management.
- **Conga Rebates**: Solution for managing rebate programs and incentive structures.
- **Conga AI**: Purpose-built AI that provides practical guidance, risk minimization, and profit optimization across the commerce chain.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue not publicly disclosed; notable metrics include **10,000+ global customers**, **6.4 million unique users**, **7 million annual contracts**, and a **94% customer satisfaction score**.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available from provided sources.
- **Growth Signals**: Over 50% of the Fortune 100 trust Conga; 1,468 total employees (as of late 2024/early 2025); strong global presence with offices in four countries; hybrid and remote-first culture.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open API‑first platform**: Works with any CRM or ERP, eliminating vendor lock‑in.
- **Single data model**: Unifies sales, pricing, procurement, legal, and IT teams around a single source of truth.
- **AI‑powered insights**: Built‑in AI provides prescriptive guidance to maximize profit and minimize risk.
- **Integrated suite**: End‑to‑end coverage from pricing to contract renewal, reducing hand‑off friction.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue expanding AI capabilities within the platform to drive smarter, real‑time decisions.
- Deepen integration with major CRM/ERP ecosystems (Salesforce, SAP, Oracle).
- Scale customer base globally while maintaining high satisfaction and retention.
- Build on the “Conga Way” culture of entrepreneurial spirit and collaborative achievement.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Emphasizes “Conga Way” – dynamic, transparent, collaborative, customer‑first, with a focus on outcomes and servant leadership.
- **Work Model**: Hybrid (flexible on‑site vs. remote) with a “Conga Flex” option allowing employees to work from anywhere for one month each year.
- **Benefits** (US‑based): Comprehensive health, dental, vision; 401(k) match (100% of first 3% contributed); 12 weeks paid parental leave (both parents); fertility benefits via Carrot; 24 hours paid volunteer time off; flexible time off (FTO); professional development reimbursement; Employee Assistance Program; pet insurance; and charitable donation matching.
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Equal‑opportunity employer with Colleague Resource Groups (Women in Tech, African/African‑Americans, Latinos & Latinas, Pride).
- **Growth**: Leadership development workshops, mentorship, and reimbursement for external learning.

## Sources
1. [Conga Careers](https://conga.com/careers)
2. [Conga Homepage](https://conga.com/)
3. [Conga About Page](https://conga.com/about)
4. [Conga Jobs on Greenhouse](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/conga)
5. [Built In Conga Profile](https://builtin.com/company/conga)

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