Principal Backend Engineer, Python
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Principal Backend Engineer architecting backend systems for video commerce technology. Leading complex projects and collaborating across teams in a fast-growing tech company.
Responsibilities:
- 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: ingestion → processing → delivery → transaction
- 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 (for example: shoppable video, live drops, creator-marketplaces)
- Own production operations for critical systems: service reliability, incident response, capacity planning, performance optimization
Requirements:
- 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
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, or related field
- Go development experience
- Background in personalization, recommendation systems, feed ranking, or analytics/ML infrastructure
- Experience building creator platforms, video commerce, live streaming ecosystems, or social/interactive media products
- Experience building platforms in B2B Software as a Service
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