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WHO WE ARE

Tealium is the trusted leader in real-time Customer Data Platforms (CDP), helping organizations unify their customer data to deliver more personalized, privacy-conscious experiences. As the demand for connected, intelligent customer engagement grows, Tealium’s leadership in CDP is translating directly into leadership in enabling enterprise AI strategies. By providing clean, consented, and actionable data, Tealium empowers its customers to accelerate the adoption of AI and machine learning, fueling smarter personalization, predictive insights, and business outcomes at scale.

More than 800 leading global brands trust Tealium to power their customer data strategies and deliver real-time, personalized experiences at scale.

Team Tealium has team members present in nearly 20 countries worldwide, serving customers across more than 30 countries. We win together with respect and appreciation for the talents required of all positions and the people who contribute to each of these. We are intentional about our WOWs (Ways of Work) culture, our investment in our team members, and how we care and connect.

With an extraordinary portfolio of investors (including Georgian, Silver Lake Waterman, Battery, and others) and deep industry experience, Tealium has the financial backing, profitability, and expertise to continue to outpace competitors and lead the way in innovation. Today, Tealium holds over 50 patents, and a few of the recent industry recognitions include:

• A Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Customer Data Platforms

• 2025 TrustRadius Award Winner: Buyer’s Choice

• 2024 Invoca Partner Collaboration Award

• 2024 G2 Leader in Tag Management & Enterprise Data Governance

• Tealium Customer Data Hub achieved the Top Rated Award by TrustRadius (2024)

• Named on Destination CRM’s 2024 Top 100 Technologies List for Sales

• Named on the 2024 Best and Brightest in the Nation list

• BuiltIn’s 2024 Best Place to Work

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Tealium is seeking a Principal Engineer, AI Developer Tools, to shape the vision, design, and rollout of our next-generation AI-driven developer tools. This is a high-impact role at the core of a strategic initiative to modernize Tealium’s engineering ecosystem, enabling teams with intelligent, automated, and scalable tooling.

In this role, you will directly empower Tealium’s development teams to innovate faster, enhance code quality, and dramatically increase engineering productivity through AI. This is a unique opportunity to lead a critical strategic initiative, influence technical direction, and foster an AI-first engineering culture across the organization.

As the driving force behind AI Developer Tools, your work will accelerate both engineering and business velocity by:

• Accelerating Product Modernization: Automating key software lifecycle elements using tools like ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and AWS Q to tackle technical debt faster—projects may include AWS SDK migrations, Java 21 upgrades, and other modernization initiatives.
  

• Unlocking an AI-First Engineering Culture: Leading internal pilots with GitHub Copilot, Glean, and similar tools to achieve 2–3x speed improvements on repetitive tasks such as monolith decomposition and legacy code refactoring, transforming technical debt into manageable tasks and freeing engineers to focus on innovation.
  

This role is perfect for a visionary technologist passionate about leveraging AI to redefine developer productivity and shape the future of engineering at Tealium.

YOUR DAY TO DAY

• Drive AI-Powered Refactoring of Monolithic Platform Components: Spearhead initiatives to break up legacy systems, streamline architecture, and reduce production incidents, accelerating modernization across Tealium’s platform.

• Design and Implement AI-Enhanced Code Review and Test Automation: Develop automated unit tests, improve test coverage, and eliminate manual QA bottlenecks, enabling faster, higher-quality releases.

• Lead Measurement and Adoption of AI Tools: Establish AI scorecards, adoption KPIs, and metrics to track reductions in time-to-market, engineering efficiency improvements, and code quality gains (e.g., tickets closed per release, bug rates, code review cycle times), providing actionable insights to R&D leadership.

• Evaluate and integrate best-in-class AI technologies—from code generation to test automation—to create a seamless and efficient engineering experience.

• Serve as a technical authority and thought leader across the engineering org, promoting best practices and influencing decisions at all levels.

• Own and drive large-scale modernization initiatives, partnering with other senior engineers to ensure adoption, scalability, and measurable impact.

• Stay current with emerging AI and developer productivity trends, continuously pushing the boundaries of what’s possible within our platform.

WHAT YOU BRING TO TEALIUM

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years leading large-scale internal tooling, platform engineering, or modernization efforts.

• Proven success designing and delivering AI-powered developer tools—beyond experimentation—with real-world impact on team velocity and quality.

• Deep understanding of modern software development practices, languages, and environments (e.g., Java, TypeScript, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure).

• Experience working in enterprise-scale engineering organizations with complex systems and diverse engineering teams.

• Strong architecture and system design skills, with the ability to make build-vs-buy decisions and scale tooling across orgs.

• Demonstrated ability to influence with authority, collaborate across disciplines, and lead by example in a senior or principal engineering capacity.

• A passion for improving the developer experience and a practical mindset toward applying AI to solve real engineering problems.

• Familiarity with tools like GitHub Copilot, CodeWhisperer, or other generative AI platforms—ideally with experience leading their adoption at scale.

WAGE TRANSPARENCY

In many U.S. states, employers are required to include a pay range for posted positions. Although this isn't a requirement in every state, communicating transparently is a cornerstone of our operations at Tealium, and we believe in making this information available to all applicants.

The U.S. pay range for this full-time position is listed below, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition to a competitive base salary, this position is eligible for a robust benefits package that includes the following:

• Employees are eligible to receive an annual bonus and stock options.

• Employees and their families are eligible for medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.

• Employees have the option to enroll in our 401k plan and are eligible to receive contributions for company matching.

• Employees are eligible for flexible paid time-off and extended paid parental leave.

• We offer 11 paid holidays annually.

• We offer 15 hours of paid work time for volunteer activities and programs.

• Our sick leave accrual is the following for our employees:

  • Exempt CA employees (not including San Francisco) including NY : accrue 40 hours each year. Unused sick leave carries over into the next year. Employees cannot exceed 80 hours in a given year.

  • Exempt Non - CA employees (not including NY) including SF: Accrue 1 hour every 30 hours worked. Cannot exceed 180 hours in the calendar year.

  • Non-Exempt: accrue 1 hour every 30 hours worked. Unused carries over to the next year. Not to exceed 108 hours in a calendar year.

An overview of our benefits and perks can be found on our careers page, https://tealium.com/careers/. Additional details regarding the benefits package will be provided during your interview process.

Base Compensation Range: $165,000 - $200,000 + variable + equity options

WHY YOU WANT TO WORK HERE

At Tealium, we don’t just offer the ordinary, we provide the extraordinary:

• Tealium WOWs (Ways of Work), our award winning culture is how with think, act and connect together at Tealium
• Mosaic, our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion is grounded in our mosaic of diverse perspectives and shared belonging as we live in work across the US and in nearly 20 countries
• Tealium Cares, to promote caring in our communities, 15 hours of paid work time for volunteer activities and programs is offered annually
• Tealium Connects (remote-first working), enabling many of us to choose where we do our best work and offering new hire stipends to assist with purchasing things we need to support a successful home office environment
• Tealium Ownership, share in the success of Tealium by becoming an owner of Tealium beginning with new hire equity grants
• Tealium Time, paid time-off policy to offer flexibility to take time when needed and robust leave programs, including extended paid parental leave and company holidays
• Healium, health and wellness programs to help us be our best selves in the experiences of health, physical, mental, social, and even financial well-being and wellness
• Tealium LIFT (Learning is Facilitated at Tealium), offering a myriad of professional development opportunities with over 6,000 courses available on demand to best-in-class manager and leadership development programs
• Health and Related Benefits Programs, offering market competitive benefits programs