Principal Engineer

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Principal Engineer architecting SGS’s customer-facing products and shared engineering platform. Building full-stack systems with React, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and observability.

Responsibilities:

  • Architect and personally ship critical customer-facing product surfaces
  • Own frontend architecture, backend services, and infrastructure decisions
  • Write code across frontend, backend, and infrastructure layers
  • Shape the platform, including CI/CD, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and observability
  • Turn successful work into shared components, services, architectural patterns, design-system extensions, and platform building blocks
  • Mentor senior engineers
  • Lead architecture conversations
  • Remove engineering friction to improve team velocity and safety
  • Partner with Product and Design to deliver user-focused interfaces

Requirements:

  • Expert-level React/TypeScript on the frontend
  • Deep experience building distributed backends in Go, Python, or TypeScript
  • Hands-on, architectural-level experience with GCP or AWS and Terraform
  • Strong knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD pipelines
  • Experience with GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
  • Proven track record designing scalable, resilient, and observable distributed cloud-native systems
  • Experience partnering with Product and Design to ship user-focused interfaces
  • Practical experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and Jaeger
  • Experience with scalable testing strategies
  • 10+ years of experience with strong backgrounds in product engineering and platform/SRE work

Benefits:

  • Competitive salary and benefits package
  • Opportunities for professional growth and development
  • Collaborative and inclusive work environment
  • Open, friendly, and supportive culture
  • Opportunities to learn, grow your expertise, and fulfill your potential