We are seeking an accomplished Principal Staff Backend Engineer to lead the design and development of scalable, secure, and resilient enterprise systems. You will set technical direction, mentor engineers, and architect platforms that power mission-critical products. This is a hands-on leadership role that spans cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, data platforms, and AI integration.
What You Will Do
Architect and Design: Define large scale distributed architectures for reliability, scalability, and performance.Technical Leadership: Drive engineering standards, code quality, and operational excellence while mentoring senior engineers.Modern Services: Build and optimize microservices, APIs, and data pipelines using current enterprise technologies.Enterprise Delivery: Meet strict security, compliance, and performance requirements for global customers.Innovation: Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies where they add measurable value.
Core Languages
Expert in at least one of Python, Java, or C++Bonus: Go, Rust, or Scala
Cloud and Infrastructure
Cloud: AWS, Azure, or GCP (multi-cloud experience is a plus)Containers and Orchestration: Docker, KubernetesInfrastructure as Code: Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormationServerless: AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, Azure FunctionsNetworking and Service Mesh: Istio, Linkerd, Envoy, NGINXCI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Argo CD, Jenkins, Spinnaker
APIs and Services
API Styles: REST, GraphQL, gRPCArchitectures: Microservices, event-driven, CQRS, Saga patternsGateway and Management: Kong, Apigee, AWS API Gateway, NGINX
Data and Streaming
Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, OracleNoSQL and Caching: DynamoDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, MemcachedStreaming and Batch: Kafka, Pulsar, Spark, Flink, Airflow, dbtAnalytics and Warehousing: Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, DatabricksSearch and Indexing: Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, SolrObject Storage and Lakehouse: S3, GCS, ADLS, Delta Lake, Iceberg, Hudi
AI and Advanced Capabilities
ML Frameworks and Serving: TensorFlow, PyTorch, ONNX Runtime, Triton Inference ServerFeature Stores and Pipelines: Feast, Kubeflow, MLflowAI Systems Integration: Vector DBs (Pinecone, Milvus, Weaviate), RAG patterns, embeddings
Security and Compliance
Auth and Identity: OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, JWTSecrets and KMS: HashiCorp Vault, AWS KMS, Azure Key Vault, GCP KMSCompliance Awareness: SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSSAppSec: SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, SBOM
Reliability and Observability
Monitoring and Tracing: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, ELK/EFKResilience: Circuit breakers, rate limiting, backoff, bulkheads, chaos engineeringPerformance: Profiling, load testing, capacity planning, autoscaling
Qualifications
10+ years of backend engineering experience including 3+ years at Staff or Principal levelProven success designing and operating distributed systems at scaleStrong skills in algorithms, data structures, concurrency, and performance tuningExperience leading architecture reviews and influencing large engineering teamsClear communication with executives, product, security, and cross-functional partners
Why Join
You will shape platform strategy, mentor engineers, and build systems that billions can rely on. You will work with state of the art enterprise technology to solve high impact backend challenges.
About Andiamo
Talent Partners for the AI Revolution. As a globally recognized staffing and consulting firm, we specialize in placing the top 2% of technology and go-to-market professionals with the world’s largest and most well-known companies.
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