Prinicipal Software Engineer

NetDocuments is committed to providing an excellent candidate experience and will never ask you to engage in recruitment activity without phone, video, and in person meetings and communications from emails using the @netdocuments.com domain. If you have any concerns or questions about communications you have received, please send them to  hrgroup@netdocuments.co m  so our team members can review. About NetDocuments At NetDocuments, we're shaping the future of legal work. We believe legal professionals should spend less time searching for information and managing documents, and more time solving complex problems, serving clients, and delivering meaningful outcomes. That's why we're building technology that helps organizations work smarter, collaborate more effectively, and unlock the full value of their institutional knowledge. Our team is redefining what's possible for legal technology. NetDocuments is the trusted intelligent document management platform for legal professionals and the company behind the industry's first and only legal context graph—a breakthrough that gives legal professionals and AI a richer understanding of how matters, documents, people, and knowledge connect across an organization while respecting enterprise-grade security, governance, permissions, and ethical walls. Innovation is only part of our story. We believe our greatest strength is our people. We foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing culture where curiosity is encouraged, diverse perspectives are valued, and employees are empowered to make a meaningful impact. Whether you're building products, serving customers, or supporting the business, your work helps shape the future of one of the world's most trusted legal technology platforms. That commitment to our employees and customers has earned us recognition as one of the nation's top workplaces, including: • Four consecutive appearances on the Inc. 5000 list of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies • Five-time Top Workplace USA winner • Five-time Salt Lake Tribune Top Workplace • Multiple Top Workplaces Culture Excellence awards recognizing innovation, employee appreciation, work-life flexibility, and compensation & benefits If you're excited to solve meaningful challenges, work alongside talented colleagues, and help define the next generation of legal technology, we'd love to meet you. You will: Founding Technical Leadership Serve as the founding technical leader for NetDocuments' first Developer Experience (DevX) team, setting technical direction from day one. • Partner with the Senior Product Manager to define the team's charter, roadmap, and success metrics. • Recruit, hire, and mentor the Staff and Senior Software Engineers who will make up the NetDocuments DevX team. • Cross-Team Discovery & Liaison • Partner directly with geographically-disparate engineering teams to understand existing architecture, current tooling, and developer pain points. • Translate that context into a clear, prioritized execution plan for the DevX team. • Build trusted relationships across engineering teams and time zones to drive adoption of DevX-built tools and standards, without relying on formal reporting authority. • Travel occasionally to the US (approximately 1–2 times per year) to deepen collaboration with US engineering leadership. • Architecture & Build • Make build-vs-buy recommendations and set technical direction for internal tooling, developer platforms, and infrastructure-as-code. • Design and build internal tools and platform capabilities intended for use by every engineering team at NetDocuments, built to scale well beyond current needs (e.g. 10x). • Establish shared technical standards and patterns for tooling adopted company-wide. • Stay deeply hands-on, b