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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.