Somewhere between the whiteboard sketch and the green deploy badge is the Principal Software Engineer role we're opening in Glendale, AZ. A Principal Software Engineer seat that takes 10 years of PostgreSQL seriously, pays $146,000 - $198,000, and hands over the technology reins.
Key Responsibilities
- Pair with cross-functional partners to scope and deliver part-time projects
- Ship incremental improvements to McDonalds's Glendale platform on a regular cadence
- Automate the manual Ruby on Rails chores that quietly drain Glendale, AZ engineering hours
- Question the customer-obsessed Ruby on Rails pattern everyone copied and propose something cleaner
- Pull GitLab CI telemetry into dashboards McDonalds leaders actually open
- Translate a napkin idea from McDonalds founders into an Attention Management values-led prototype
What You'll Bring
- The instinct to ask "what would change your mind?" before debating
- Comfort with part-time arrangements and the rhythms of a learning-obsessed workplace
- Working understanding of both Terraform and Growth Mindset in real-world settings
- Comfort being accountable for an unfussy outcome in a part-time role
- Terraform fundamentals plus the Go polish clients notice
- An instinct for prioritization when everything is labeled urgent
- Hands-on familiarity with GitHub Actions, sharpened by Attention Management side projects
McDonalds grew out of a Glendale, AZ research lab and never lost its forward-thinking, question-everything approach to GitLab CI. We treat every new Principal Software Engineer as a fresh set of eyes, so tell us what looks broken.
Your offer at McDonalds: $146,000 - $198,000, a mentor, generous benefits, and the Glendale, AZ flexibility to grow on your own clock.
Just re-listed with today's date, the technology role is fully active.
Drop us your application and tell us, in your own words, why McDonalds caught your eye.