The opportunity timeline

• Overview

  InnovateLabs is hiring a Principal Software Engineer in Raleigh, NC.

• Role description

  This temporary Principal Software Engineer position is your opportunity to deploy production code that reaches a massive audience. The shape of it is simple — bring 8 years and GitLab CI, take home $135,000 - $198,000, and grow into whatever InnovateLabs builds next.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Read the GitLab CI stack traces others skim past, and trace bugs to their root
  • Backfill PHP test coverage on the riskiest corners of InnovateLabs's codebase
  • Reverse-engineer the wildly-collaborative Interpersonal Skills format InnovateLabs inherited and never documented
  • Translate purpose-soaked business requirements into technical specifications and tasks
  • Prototype proof-of-concept solutions for emerging technology requirements
  • Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput InnovateLabs workloads
  • Wire up Conflict Resolution feature flags so InnovateLabs can test on Raleigh traffic risk-free
  • Develop and maintain RESTful APIs powering core InnovateLabs products

  What You'll Bring

  • A knack for Conflict Resolution that colleagues quietly come to rely on
  • A Raleigh network, or the hustle to build one from scratch
  • A communicator who can disagree without making it personal
  • Principal fluency in PHP, with Creativity on your roadmap

  InnovateLabs is a mission-soaked company in Raleigh, NC that turns complex technology problems into simple, elegant solutions. We give principal hires room to fail small so they can later succeed big on technology work.

  Your compensation opens at $135,000 - $198,000, your mentor is waiting, your benefits are ready, and your hours are yours to flex.

  We bumped this posting hours ago because the role is still very much open.

  Trade the maybe-someday for a definitely-now and apply to InnovateLabs this afternoon.

• Required skills

  • PHP
  • GitLab CI
  • gRPC
  • Agile
  • Git
  • REST API
  • Ruby
  • Interpersonal Skills
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Creativity

• Benefits & perks

  • Childcare Assistance
  • Performance Bonuses
  • Gas and mileage reimbursement
  • Team Building Events
  • Snacks and Beverages
  • Paid holidays
  • Stretch assignments and rotations
  • Retention bonuses
  • Basic life insurance
  • Certification Reimbursement
  • Sabbatical for long-tenured employees
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Global emergency assistance
  • Onsite Childcare

• Apply before 2026-08-31

  Submit your application for this Temporary technology position.