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Juniper Square

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Principal Engineer – Platform

Platform EngineerPlatform EngineerFull TimeRemoteLeadTeam 201-500H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

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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