Principal Backend Engineer (Python) - WORK FROM HOME - #34802

10+ years of software engineering with deep backend expertise At least 6 years of experience and hands-on mastery Python in production environments Proven track record architecting large distributed systems, micro-services, event-driven pipelines, real-time data flows and commerce or media-driven workflows Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), container orchestration (Kubernetes), infrastructure-as-code, and operational excellence Deep familiarity with data stores (SQL + NoSQL/kv), message queues/streaming (Kafka, Pub/Sub, etc), API design (REST/gRPC), and performance/scale trade-offs Self-Starter and is able to work without direct communication with other engineers Strong strategic mindset: able to make decisions under ambiguity, drive technical vision, and lead across teams Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate technical strategy to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders

Define and own the technical strategy for backend systems powering content ingestion, creator tooling, media pipelines, personalization/feeds, and commerce triggers Architect and build high-scale, low-latency services in Go and Python that drive the creator-video-commerce stack Lead large, complex projects: evolving micro-services architecture, scaling to millions of events/requests per minute, ensuring reliability, cost-efficiency and observability Collaborate with product, design, data/ML, and creator-ops to anticipate the next wave of content-commerce innovation Own production operations for critical systems: service reliability, incident response, capacity planning, performance optimization