About the role

Role: Principal Engineer (Hands-on)

Condé Nast is seeking a principal-level technical authority to own the architecture of the front-end stack, the web delivery/edge layer, and the standards that protect the reader experience.

Responsibilities

Front-End Architecture & Stack Evolution

Serve as the principal technical authority for front-end architecture.
Make foundational decisions on:
- Component design
- State management
- Rendering strategy
- Non-negotiables for the rebuilt stack
Drive an island architecture approach, with guardrails to keep the platform coherent as it scales across brands.
Define and defend performance budgets and SLOs (e.g., load, render, scroll, media, page transitions) and ensure the platform ships to them.
Own measurement of real reader experience:
- Define Real User Monitoring (RUM) and Core Web Vitals instrumentation
- Ensure field capture reflects what matters
- Convert results into a continuous feedback loop for front-end and delivery health.
Establish governance for what reaches the page:
- Surface and control the cost of third-party calls/integrations
- Set baselines and enforce what does/does not reach the reader.

Edge, CDN & Web Delivery

Own the edge and delivery layer architecture:
- CDN strategy
- Caching
- Cloud infrastructure delivering globally
Stay ahead of delivery trends (CDN capabilities, edge compute) and account for bot/automated traffic.
Translate trends into architecture decisions for resilience, cost, and performance.

Technical Leadership

Raise the technical floor via:
- Design review
- Pairing
- Documentation
- Principled decision-making
Move into adjacent technical domains as needed to solve the problems at hand.
Treat AI as a default part of the way work is architected, prototyped, investigated, and shipped.
Raise standards for AI-assisted work across teams (share best practices and assess limitations clearly).
Ideate, build, and launch agentic systems in production, including safe operation and measurement of impact.
Act as a senior technical voice for non-technical stakeholders.

Location

New York, NY

About Condé Nast

Condé Nast is a global media company producing high-quality content across print, digital, video, and social platforms, reaching more than 1 billion consumers in 32 territories. Its portfolio includes major lifestyle, journalism, and fashion brands such as Vogue, Wired, Vanity Fair, and GQ, and it is undertaking a transformation of teams and systems to operate with speed, ownership, and customer focus.

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