# Principal Engineer at Intercom > United Kingdom · Principal · Software engineering · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Aintercom%3A6386427 (read 2026-11-04). ## Facts (observed) - Company: [Intercom](https://alderhq.app/companies/intercom) - Location text: London, England; Dublin, Ireland; London, England - Where it can be done from (inferred): United Kingdom (evidence: "Location: London, England; Dublin, Ireland; London, England") - Posted: 2024-11-10 (725 days ago) - First seen by alder: 2026-11-03 · last verified: 2026-11-04 - Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times - Apply on the employer's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/intercom/jobs/6386427 - Skills listed (inferred): Python, Ruby/Rails, Distributed systems ## Pay and sponsorship - Posted pay: not posted - Market band for similar posted roles (London, n 3): p25 £164k, median £188k, p75 £201k - H-1B filings at this company for similar roles, FY26: 4, median offered wage $193k ([US DOL OFLC LCA disclosure data](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/performance)) - Licensed UK sponsor: registered as "Intercom Software UK Limited" (checked 2026-11-03, [register](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/register-of-licensed-sponsors-workers)) ## Description (the employer's text) Fin, now part of Salesforce, is on a mission to help businesses provide perfect customer experiences. Our AI Agent Fin is the highest-performing AI Customer Agent on the market today, enabling businesses to deliver impeccable, always-on customer support across the customer journey, from service, to sales, to ecommerce. Powered by our own AI models, Fin resolves complex customer issues end-to-end across every channel, with minimal set-up and integration. Fin can also be combined with our natively integrated Intercom help desk, giving modern support teams one single system. Together with Salesforce, the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success, we're building the future of customer experience. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword, it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing, and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI. Ready to level up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You're in the right place. Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. ### What's the opportunity? Principal Engineers at Fin have the opportunity to lead the definition and execution of key strategic initiatives. You will work autonomously and be accountable for strategic execution in part of the engineering organization. You will build both back-end and front-end systems, and work closely with designers, product managers, researchers, and data analysts. You will coach and mentor other engineers and partner closely with the Group Engineering Managers on technical strategy and leadership. Learn more about our engineering culture at intercom.engineering ### What will I be doing? As an experienced engineer you will: - Have a mastery of domain knowledge and work as a leader within the R&D org to drive key strategic projects. - Provide assessments of project progress, risks and challenges to engineering leadership to help guide resource allocation and prioritisation. - Contribute to our technical architecture as we grow. We scale to service requests from all our customers’ customers. We’re growing and so are they. - Care about agility as much you care for scalability and availability. Continuous deployment keeps us focused on incremental releases. Even our biggest technical achievements roll out piece by piece, feature flagged out of sight. - Contribute to all phases of software development including ideation, prototyping, design and implementation. This role has a mix of both hands-on development as well as lead/architecture work. - Build using the best tools in the industry. We invest heavily in AI-powered developer tools that remove friction and help you focus on solving meaningful problems. - Play an active role in hiring, mentoring and career development of other engineers - Raise the bar for technical standards, performance, reliability, and operational excellence ### What skills do I need? - Ideally, you’ve built an exciting SaaS product in your previous roles and loved the satisfaction that comes with knowing that people around the world are using something you’ve created - Significant, demonstrated impact that your work has had on the product and/or the teams - Deep knowledge of a high-level programming language (for example, Ruby, Python, Perl etc.) but it doesn’t need to be a language that we use here! Great people are effective and learn what we use quickly (or introduce us to better ways of working) - You will have experience with Distributed systems - 2+ years of experience as the primary technical leader for a team - Experience collaborating directly with technical leaders, product teams and designers, and a proven track record of delivering value to customers or users. Engineers at Fin are pragmatists who work closely with others on cross-disciplinary teams and have a strong sense of product strategy. ### Unleash Your Potential When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world. --- Data: alder (https://alderhq.app). Cite https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Aintercom%3A6386427 and the date you read it. Observed facts come from the employer's own listing; location reach, level, family and skills are inferences.