Principal Engineer - SaaS
Description
About the client:
Our client is a Bay Area flagship SaaS platform at the intersection of Robotics and Warehouse Automation - designing cutting edge technology solutions.
- What Makes This Role Compelling
- Deep algorithmic challenges with real-world operational impact.
- High-scale distributed systems deployed in mission-critical environments.
- Opportunity to influence platform architecture at a transformational stage.
- Patent-level innovation potential.
- Work at the intersection of SaaS, robotics, AI orchestration, and real-time systems. If you are a builder who enjoys solving hard systems problems, optimizing for milliseconds, and architecting platforms that operate at global scale - this is a role worth exploring.
- Roles & Responsibilities
- Define and drive the overall architecture for scalable, secure, and high-performance distributed systems.
- Write and review code for critical modules and performance-sensitive components to set quality and architectural standards
- Collaborate with engineering leads and product managers to align technology strategy with business goals.
- Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies, and processes to ensure the highest quality product platform.
- Own and evolve the system design, ensuring modularity, multi-tenancy, and future extensibility.
- Establish and govern best practices around service design, API development, security, observability, and performance.
- Review code, designs, and technical documentation, ensuring adherence to architecture and design principles.
- Lead design discussions and mentor senior and mid-level engineers to improve design thinking and engineering quality.
- Partner with DevOps to optimize CI/CD, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies, assessing their relevance and value.Skills
- Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms
- Good knowledge of low level and high level system designs and best practices
- Strong expertise in Java & Spring Boot, with a deep understanding of microservice architectures and design patterns. C++, Python and other language exp is desired.
- Good knowledge of databases (both SQL and NoSQL), including schema design, sharding, and performance tuning.
- Expertise in Kubernetes, Helm, and container orchestration for deploying and managing scalable applications.
- Advanced knowledge of Kafka for stream processing, event-driven architecture, and data integration.
- Proficiency in Redis for caching, session management, and pub-sub use cases.
- Solid understanding of API design (REST/gRPC), authentication (OAuth2/JWT), and security best practices.
- Strong grasp of system design fundamentals-scalability, reliability, consistency, and observability.
- Experience with monitoring and logging frameworks (e.g. Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or equivalent).
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional leadership skills.
- Prior experience in leading architecture for SaaS or high-scale multi-tenant platforms is highly desirable. Experience
- 6-10+ years of relevant experience Qualifications
- Engineering or science background is preferred.
- Bachelor's degree and above is preferred
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