Principal Software Engineer, Backend

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent technical experience. Principal-level expertise in Infrastructure & Platform Engineering. Proven track record of scaling cloud-native systems. Strong Python 3 expertise. Strong AWS expertise. Familiarity with event-driven architectures (Kafka or similar). Hands-on experience with IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation), observability, monitoring, & incident response. Proven track record of improving DevEx by leveling up tooling, pipelines, & automation. Experience improving monorepo developer workflows (Bazel, Buck, Pants). Knowledge of compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.). Experience leading security initiatives. History of mentoring engineers and shaping technical direction.

Design, implement, and scale core infrastructure for reliability, performance, and security. Build and improve tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and workflows to optimize developer productivity. Champion security-by-design principles and implement safeguarding controls. Serve as a technical leader, coaching engineers and driving platform strategy alignment. Partner with product and engineering leaders to balance speed, cost, and resilience.