Principal Engineer - Platform & Data

You bring strong experience designing and evolving distributed systems and microservices architectures You’ve operated at Principal or Staff level, shaping technical direction across multiple teams or domains You are comfortable staying hands-on, contributing in code, design and delivery when needed You have strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and modern infrastructure practices You’ve worked on systems where scale, reliability, performance and cost trade-offs matter, and can navigate those decisions thoughtfully You have proven experience in data architecture (e.g. data platforms, pipelines, warehousing or data lakes) and working on products built on top of large data stores You can take loosely defined (early stage) business or technical problems and turn them into clear, actionable technical approaches You communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively, and produce structured documentation that helps both technical and non-technical audiences make decisions You’ve contributed to engineering standards, architecture patterns or platform direction Strong experience with REST API design in complex, multi-service environments, ideally including how APIs are consumed on the front end Interest in or exposure to AI-enabled systems, particularly understanding architectural implications in production