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Principal Member of Technical Staff

Pragmatike


Job Location:

San Francisco, CA - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 200000 - 400000
Posted: 22 August 2026 (20 days ago)
Application Deadline: 19 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Location: United States Remote
Compensation: $200000$350000 USD
Start Date: ASAP
Languages: Fluent English required
Type: Full-time

About the Opportunity

Pragmatike is recruiting on behalf of a rapidly scaling technology company building sophisticated infrastructure and software systems.

We are seeking a Principal Member of Technical Staff to provide technical leadership across the companys most important engineering challenges.

What Youll Do
  • Define architecture for complex high-impact systems.

  • Lead company-critical engineering initiatives.

  • Solve novel scalability reliability and performance problems.

  • Establish technical direction across multiple engineering teams.

  • Influence technology strategy and long-term architecture.

  • Mentor senior and staff-level engineers.

  • Drive technical alignment across Product and Engineering.

  • Turn emerging technical challenges into durable platform capabilities.

What Were Looking For
  • 8 years of engineering experience.

  • Exceptional system design and architecture skills.

  • Deep expertise in distributed systems or infrastructure.

  • Track record of solving complex technical problems at scale.

  • Strong technical leadership and communication.

  • Ability to influence senior stakeholders across the organization.

Nice to Have
  • AI/ML infrastructure.

  • Cloud-native architecture.

  • Kubernetes and distributed compute.

  • High-growth startup or scale-up experience.

Why Join

Our client is building highly scalable technology that sits at the core of critical business operations offering engineers the opportunity to work on complex systems large-scale integrations and real-world technical challenges.

Youll join a collaborative fast-moving environment where ownership is encouraged decisions are made quickly and engineers have meaningful influence on architecture product direction and engineering culture.

This role offers the opportunity to tackle challenging backend problems work with modern technologies and grow alongside an ambitious team building for scale.

Full benefit package and competitive compensation.

Pragmatike is committed to a fair transparent and inclusive recruitment process. We do not discriminate based on age disability gender gender identity or expression marital or civil partner status pregnancy or maternity race religion or belief sex or sexual orientation.

In accordance with GDPR your personal data will be processed lawfully fairly and securely and used solely for recruitment purposes including sharing it with our client(s) for employment consideration. You may request access correction or deletion of your data at any time. We are committed to maintaining the confidentiality and security of your information throughout the recruitment process.


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Staff IC


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