Principal Software Engineer
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Principal Software Engineer leading backend systems design for public safety SaaS platform. Mentoring engineers and defining best practices in a mission-critical environment.
Responsibilities:
- Take end-to-end ownership of our backend systems, leading the design and development of scalable, production-grade services and APIs.
- Define and enforce engineering best practices, coding standards, and architectural patterns across the organization.
- Conduct code reviews, provide technical guidance, and grow a culture of craft and continuous improvement across engineering teams at all levels.
- Drive the evolution of our infrastructure for reliability, performance, and scalability including observability, fault tolerance, and security.
- Partner closely with product, design, and executive leadership to translate business objectives into concrete technical strategy.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of backend development experience, including significant time in senior, staff, or principal-level roles.
- Deep expertise in backend systems design and distributed systems, with a track record of owning complex production infrastructure.
- Proven experience designing and building backend APIs for SaaS products, including multi-tenancy, authentication, versioning, and developer experience.
- Strong proficiency in SQL and experience designing for security, fault tolerance, and observability.
- Experience setting technical direction at an organizational level, not just within a single team.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to make technical trade-offs legible to non-technical stakeholders.
- Prior startup or mission-critical environment experience strongly preferred.
- Bonus: Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS) at scale.
Benefits:
- Health insurance
- Professional development opportunities
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