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Principal Engineer
Location
Spain
Posted
15 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Principal Engineer
Safeguard Global
• Define and drive the architecture of scalable, event-driven systems on AWS • Lead the design and evolution of core platform services and distributed systems • Set technical direction across teams, ensuring consistency and long-term maintainability • Solve complex, cross-cutting engineering problems (e.g. scaling, data consistency, system resilience) • Establish best practices for reliability, observability, and performance across the platform • Design systems that handle high event throughput, failure scenarios, and eventual consistency at scale • Partner closely with Data Engineering to shape data architecture, pipelines, and platform capabilities • Influence and improve engineering standards, tooling, and ways of working • Mentor senior engineers and act as a technical leader across multiple teams • Contribute to strategic technical decisions and roadmap planning
Job Requirements
- 8-12+ years of experience building and scaling backend systems in production environments
- Deep expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js preferred) or similar backend ecosystems
- Strong hands-on experience designing distributed systems and event-driven architectures
- Proven experience architecting systems on AWS, particularly serverless (Lambda, EventBridge, S3, API Gateway)
- Track record of leading large-scale technical initiatives or platform transformations
- Deep understanding of reliability patterns (e.g. idempotency, retries, backpressure, fault tolerance)
- Experience operating systems at scale, including observability, monitoring, and incident response
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (CDK, Terraform, or similar)
- Solid understanding of data modelling and working with high-volume, data-intensive systems
- Ability to influence technical direction without direct authority
Benefits
- Autonomous work environment
- Generous leave
- Paid charitable days off
- Corporate bonus/SIP
- International environment
- Human centered culture
- Learning platforms access
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