Staff/Principal Software Engineer
About The Position
This is a senior individual contributor role with significant influence. The engineer will be responsible for the technical direction of a key area of the platform, focusing on either large-scale distributed systems or agent-centric AI products. This role involves close collaboration with VPs and C-suite engineering leaders to address the company's most critical challenges. The company is a rapidly growing, profitable go-to-market software firm with substantial funding, focused on rebuilding its product around AI and agents. Engineers are encouraged to use AI-assisted development tools as a core part of their workflow.
Requirements
- 8 to 15 years in backend or full-stack engineering, building large-scale distributed systems
- A track record of owning and operating systems in production at serious scale, serving 100,000+ users
- Clear upward trajectory in scope rather than a plateau at senior level
- Strong system design instincts for large-scale data and distributed systems
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Copilot or Cursor
Nice To Haves
- Experience building LLM-based or agent-centric products
- Familiarity with Ruby on Rails, Python, MongoDB, or Elasticsearch
- Infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform
- A strong database or data engineering background that has broadened into distributed systems
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and technical direction for a significant area of the platform, either large-scale distributed systems or agent-centric AI products
- Lead the hardest technical problems, making the build, buy, and cost tradeoffs that shape the entire engineering organization
- Set standards and patterns that raise the bar across multiple teams and multiply the output of the engineers around you
- Partner with engineering and product leadership to keep technical direction tied to business outcomes
- Use AI-assisted development as a first-class part of how you work, leaning on agents for design, investigation, and implementation
- Float across the highest-priority projects as the go-to individual contributor in the room
Benefits
- Competitive equity
- Open to visa transfers, including OPT and H-1B transfers
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
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