Principal Engineer

Actively mentor Staff and Senior Engineers across the fellowship, developing the next generation of technical leaders

Elevate architectural thinking across teams through design reviews, documentation standards, and hands-on guidance

Build organizational capability that persists beyond your individual contributions

15+ years of software engineering experience with progressive technical leadership scope

Track record of leading cross-team technical initiatives that delivered measurable business outcomes

Demonstrated ability to influence without authority, build consensus across organizational boundaries, and translate technical tradeoffs into business terms

Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, including building and operating services that handle hundreds of millions of transactions and terabytes of data

Proven experience with event streaming and messaging infrastructure (Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, or similar) at significant scale

Strong background in scalable data stores—both relational (PostgreSQL at scale, Vitess, Spanner) and NoSQL (Bigtable, Redis, etc.)

Operational experience with cloud-native infrastructure on GCP or AWS, including Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and highly available system design

Solid backend engineering foundation (Go preferred; Python, Java, or C# acceptable)

Background in compliance-heavy environments (healthcare, fintech) with experience navigating regulatory requirements in technical design

Experience shaping AI/ML infrastructure or integrating AI capabilities into production systems

History of external technical leadership: open source contributions, conference speaking, or published technical writing

Strong opinions, loosely held—you bring conviction to technical discussions while remaining genuinely open to better ideas

Expertise in data platform architecture: streaming pipelines, data lakes, warehouses, or distributed analytics

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