Principal Staff Backend Engineer

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 DoArchitect 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 LanguagesExpert in at least one of Python, Java, or C++Bonus: Go, Rust, or ScalaCloud and InfrastructureCloud: 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, SpinnakerAPIs and ServicesAPI Styles: REST, GraphQL, gRPCArchitectures: Microservices, event-driven, CQRS, Saga patternsGateway and Management: Kong, Apigee, AWS API Gateway, NGINXData and StreamingDatabases: 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, HudiAI and Advanced CapabilitiesML 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, embeddingsSecurity and ComplianceAuth 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, SBOMReliability and ObservabilityMonitoring and Tracing: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, ELK/EFKResilience: Circuit breakers, rate limiting, backoff, bulkheads, chaos engineeringPerformance: Profiling, load testing, capacity planning, autoscalingQualifications10+ 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 partnersWhy JoinYou 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 AndiamoTalent 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.For over 20 years, we've maintained the status of tier-one vendor for firms such as Palantir, Amazon, Fluidstack, Bloomberg, Relativity Space, Firefly, MasterCard, Visa, Two Sigma, Citadel, as well as other major financial services firms, elite hedge funds, Google-backed tech start-ups, and major software firms.Our talent solutions include Permanent Placement, Contract Staffing, Executive Search, and Dedicated Recruiting Services (RPO). Find out more at www.andiamogo.com