Principal Engineer, Distributed Systems (Full Stack)

Overview

Principal Engineer (Distributed Systems, Full Stack) to provide architectural leadership across full stack and WMS integration teams responsible for warehouse intelligence platform systems.

What you'll do

• Set technical direction across backend, frontend, platform, and infrastructure with enterprise-grade architecture boundaries.
• Eliminate scalability and reliability risks in production, including Postgres upgrades and latency-critical API optimization.
• Establish production-grade observability, runbooks, RCA, and incident-response practices.
• Drive multi-regional architecture using a read-write replica strategy and evolve the data model/schema for AI/ML workloads.
• Mentor senior engineers, define shared terminology, coding standards, and automation frameworks.
• Collaborate with Product, DevOps, QA, and Autonomy/ML teams on platform primitives and data contracts.

What you'll need

• 10+ years of hands-on engineering experience owning complex, stateful production systems where reliability, performance, and correctness impacted the business.
• Production-scale expertise with PostgreSQL including upgrades, replication tradeoffs, query tuning, and schema evolution.
• Strong SQL fundamentals and hands-on experience with Node.js and/or Python.
• Cloud-native fluency on at least one major provider (Azure preferred) and working experience with Kubernetes and Docker.
• Production-grade observability (logs, metrics, traces), CI/CD, and SRE fundamentals (SLIs, SLOs, incident response).
• Architectural leadership experience with precise written communication and documentation skills.

Nice to have

• Domain experience in logistics, warehouse systems, robotics-adjacent platforms, or related physical-world spaces.
• Experience with multi-regional architectures, advanced replication strategies, or formalized data-governance programs.
• Familiarity with supporting AI/ML workloads at the infrastructure and data layer.
• Prior experience driving organization-wide mentorship, engineering standards, or terminology alignment initiatives.

Details

• Architectural leadership role (not a DevOps or feature-delivery position).