Principal Software Engineer, Coupa
$201-281k
Business spending management platform
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Business spending management platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$201-281k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide a clear idea of business value for clients.
Role
Who you are
- 15+ years building B2B SaaS at scale. You've held leadership and architectural roles where your decisions stuck around
- Real experience evolving legacy systems into microservices—in production, with users depending on uptime
- Deep knowledge of API-driven services, multi-tenant architectures, and B2B integration patterns that handle millions of users
- Solid foundation in modern deployment: CI/CD, Docker/Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, working with cloud providers like AWS or GCP
- Comfort across technology stacks (Rails, Golang, Java) and the judgment to pick tools that solve problems, not resume lines
- Track record mentoring teams—providing direction without micromanaging, staying technical without bottlenecking
- Problem-solving skills that balance scale, performance, technical debt, and shipping features. You know the trade-offs because you've lived them
- Communication skills that work across engineering, product, and business. You build consensus without watering down hard truths
What the job involves
- We're looking for someone who's rebuilt a production system while it was running
- CSP (Coupa Supplier Platform) serves millions of supplier companies—it's where they find work, receive orders, issue invoices, and get paid
- The platform started as a Rails monolith
- It works, but it needs to evolve
- More traffic, more features, multi-cloud deployment, higher availability requirements
- You'll report to the VP of Engineering
- CSP operates as a nimble team outside the larger engineering org, moving fast and pioneering approaches that demonstrate what's possible
- You'll work with Ruby on Rails, Golang, Java—and introduce whatever else the architecture needs
- 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
- Work with product, design, and business teams to turn supplier workflows into systems that scale
Our take
In 2006, Coupa was created to be a provider of business spending management (BSM) services. Since then, it has grown into its niche with a comprehensive platform that enables companies to gain greater control over their spending, supply networks, chain optimisation, liquidity management and payment solutions.
Coupa has been recognized as a leading brand in third-party risk management (TPRM). Using AI software, its TPRM software takes data from hundreds of sources and generates risk flags across the entire platform, informing the user’s processing decisions.
TPRM integrates into Coupa’s business spending management systems to provide one comprehensive platform, a feat that gives it a definitive edge when it comes to secure management of company funds. Most recently, the company acquired intelligent document processing partner, Rossum, in a move set to strengthen its source-to-pay capabilities and expand AI-powered invoice automation across the wider platform.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2015
$80m
SERIES G
Mar 2014
$40m
SERIES F
Total funding: $169m
Company HQ
Town Center, Foster City, CA
Leadership
Leagh Turner
(CEO & Board Of Directors)Previously on the Board of Directors at Plan International Canada, was the Co-CEO of Ceridian and was COO at SAP.
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