Senior Principal Backend Engineer
Shape backend architecture for security platforms, challenge core systems, and prototype AI solutions. Guide engineering teams through technical reviews and mentorship while evaluating technologies and market trends.
Responsibilities
- Evaluate core system architecture and champion quality and resilience.
- Rapidly prototype generative AI integrations and assess models and technologies.
- Connect technical decisions to business value, market trends, and the competitive landscape.
- Guide cross-functional teams, lead high-level design reviews, and mentor engineers.
- Engage with the technology community and attend industry conferences.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in scalable server-side architecture.
- Proven experience building and deploying AI systems in production.
- Experience designing and integrating generative AI solutions into enterprise backend architectures.
- Strong knowledge of AI models, frameworks, and prompting techniques.
- Deep expertise with database technologies and major distributed cloud platforms, including GCP, AWS, or Azure.
- Willingness to code and rapidly build proofs of concept.