Principal Engineer

About the Company BMI is a mission\-driven organization at the forefront of music rights and creator advocacy. Celebrating over 80 years of service to songwriters, composers, music publishers and businesses, BMI is a global leader in music rights management. Currently representing the public performance rights in over 25 million musical works created and owned by more than 1\.4 million artists. BMI negotiates music license agreements and distributes the fees it generates as royalties to its affiliated writers and publishers when their songs are publicly performed. About the Role **POSITION SUMMARY:** Oversees complex engineering projects, providing technical leadership, and ensuring the successful delivery of innovative solutions. Leads engineering teams and drives technical excellence across our organization. FUNCTIONS OF THE JOB **Essential Functions:** which may be representative, but not all inclusive of those commonly associated with this position. * Leads the design of systems that meet critical non\-functional requirements including scalability, perfomace, security, reliability and operability. * Defines the architectural and direction for modern software platforms spanning backend, frontend integration and supporting services. * Partners with engineering leadership, product managers and design leads to assess technical feasibility, guide tradeoff decisions, shape delivery sequencing and translate business goals into sustainable technical direction. * Establishes engineering standards, architectural review practices and decision\-making making frameworks that improve consistency, qua and maintainability across multiple teams. * Improves developer productivity and solution delivery by promoting reusable patterns, paved\-road approaches and platform capabilities that reduce complexity and support delivery outcomes across teams. * Identifies opportunities for process improvement and implements effective solutions. * Defines pragmatic target architectures, migration strategies and transition plans that reduce delivery risk and support incremental adoption of more scalable and maintainable platform capabilities. * Establishes standards for tracing, logging, metrics, alerting and operational visibility so team can effectively monitor system health, respond to incidents and continuously improve service reliability * Mentors team members and elevates engineering judgement across the organization to foster a culture of technical excellence, sound decision\-making and continuous improvement. * Other duties as assigned. * Supports our BMI Core Values and cultivates a culture of diversity and inclusion. **Physical/Visual Activities or Demands:** Physical/visual activities or demands that are commonly associated with the performance functions of this job. * Sitting, talking, hearing, and walking * Concentrated mental and visual attention with normal hand\-eye coordination. * Clarity of vision at 20 inches; cor