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Principal Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
99 days ago
Salary
Rs15,000K - Rs26,000K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Principal Engineer
Weekday (YC W21)
• Architect and develop large-scale real-time data processing systems using Apache Flink • Design highly reliable, low-latency distributed systems capable of handling high-throughput workloads • Write production-grade code in Java and/or Rust • Lead system design discussions and define engineering standards and best practices • Own scalability, performance optimization, reliability, and observability across services • Mentor engineers and elevate the technical quality of the team • Collaborate closely with product and security stakeholders to translate requirements into resilient technical solutions • Drive long-term architectural decisions and contribute to technical roadmap planning
Job Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building backend or distributed systems
- Strong hands-on expertise with Apache Flink
- Advanced programming skills in Java
- Production experience with Rust
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, streaming architectures, and real-time data pipelines
- Experience building high-throughput, low-latency systems
- Strong foundations in system design, concurrency, and performance optimization
- Experience in cybersecurity, threat detection, observability, or data security domains (preferred)
- Background in processing high-volume event streams (logs, telemetry, network data) (preferred)
- Familiarity with Kafka, stateful stream processing, and real-time analytics (preferred)
- Experience in high-growth or early-stage startup environments (preferred)
- Proven track record of building systems from 0 → 1 or significantly scaling existing platforms (preferred)
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