Principal Software Engineer

Overview

Principal Software Engineer role with full, hands-on ownership of critical production-grade systems and delivery of high-leverage backend features.

What you'll do

• Own mission-critical production systems end-to-end for correctness, scalability, performance, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Design, build, and ship high-impact backend systems and features to improve reliability and customer value.
• Architect scalable services and cloud infrastructure using Python, REST, gRPC, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
• Identify and resolve complex technical bottlenecks affecting engineering quality, performance, or velocity.
• Build and operate LLM-powered systems and validation loops for correctness and production performance.
• Design and evolve data architectures using relational, NoSQL, graph, and vector databases.
• Modernize enterprise systems while balancing reliability, maintainability, scalability, and delivery speed.

What you'll need

• Direct experience with Python as a primary programming language for backend and microservices.
• Expertise in REST and gRPC, and proficiency in Node.js and JavaScript.
• Proficiency in GCP and experience with at least one additional cloud platform (AWS or Azure stated).
• Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes and Terraform in production environments.
• Experience operating highly available production systems with monitoring, scalability, reliability, performance, and operational tooling.
• Strong SQL and NoSQL knowledge, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, or DynamoDB.
• Hands-on experience building and operating LLM-powered systems in production with evaluation, validation, regression testing, tracing, and failure analysis.

Details

• 100% hands-on individual contributor; not a people management role.