StaffPrincipal Software Engineer
Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not provided by the employer
Posted:
8 October 2026 (6 hours ago)
Application Deadline:
5 January 2027
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About the Role
As a Staff or Principal Software Engineer you will shape technical direction across a B2B SaaS platform tackling complex challenges in distributed systems or AI agent products. Your work will help guide platform architecture and align engineering decisions with business goals.
What Youll Do
- Own architecture and technical direction for a major area of the platform focused on large-scale distributed systems or agent-centric AI products.
- Lead complex technical projects and make build buy and cost tradeoffs that affect the engineering organization.
- Establish engineering standards and patterns that support multiple teams.
- Partner with engineering and product leaders to align technical decisions with business priorities.
- Use AI-assisted development tools and agents to accelerate design investigation and implementation.
What Were Looking For
- 8 or more years of software engineering experience including ownership and operation of large-scale distributed systems serving 100000 or more users.
- Experience designing large-scale data and distributed systems and working with databases or building LLM-based systems.
- Experience with one or more of Ruby Rails Python MongoDB or Elasticsearch.
- Familiarity with technologies such as React Kubernetes Docker Terraform and GCP.
- Hands-on use of AI-assisted development tools such as Copilot or Cursor.
- Strong computer science fundamentals or at least 5 years of professional experience.
Compensation & Benefits
Salary range: $217000 to $410000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
Location
Hybrid with 3 days per week in the San Francisco California office.