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Principal Engineer – Platform
Location
India
Posted
7 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Principal Engineer – Platform
Juniper Square
• Operates as the Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for high-impact initiatives; takes full ownership of project health, system design, and end-to-end delivery. • Partners closely with Product Management and cross-functional teams to clarify ambiguous requirements, map business goals to technical scopes, and manage dependencies. • architectural design, pragmatic task breakdown, and execution planning, driving a team of engineers toward incremental deliverables. • Establish reusable patterns, technical standards, and platform primitives that other teams can build on. • Improve engineering efficiency through better tooling, automation, documentation, observability, and developer workflows. • Mentor engineers, raise the quality of technical decision-making, and help the team execute with consistency. • Drives adoption of AI tooling across the SDLC — building internal capabilities that automate engineering workflows while ensuring security, compliance, and best-practice alignment.
Job Requirements
- 12+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed production systems.
- Strong backend engineering experience with Python frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, Pyramid, or Django.
- Experience leading technical design for complex systems, including making architecture decisions, evaluating tradeoffs, and guiding implementation across multiple engineers or teams.
- Experience with relational/nosql databases, including schema design, performance tuning, query optimization, and data modeling.
- Experience building and operating cloud-native systems using technologies such as AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD, observability, reliability, and operational excellence in production environments.
- Ability to work through ambiguity, break down complex technical problems, and drive alignment across engineering, product, and design.
- Strong ownership mindset, with the ability to independently drive high-impact initiatives while collaborating effectively in a fast-paced environment.
- Demonstrated ability to raise engineering quality through technical standards, design reviews, mentoring, and reusable platform patterns.
- Passion for improving developer experience through better platforms, tooling, automation, documentation, and engineering workflows.
- Flexibility and adaptability to juggle multiple projects in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Comfort in driving a technical vision focused on incremental value delivery.
Benefits
- remote working options
- collaboration across 27 U.S. states, 2 Canadian Provinces, India, Luxembourg, and England
- investment in digital-first operations
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