Laravel Engineer, MySQL Tuning
Bluelight
LaravelMySQLPHPReactSQL
Principal Software Engineer, Backend Engineering
Red Cell Partners
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Virginia, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $200,000 - $250,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGRPCKubernetesPythonTerraformTypeScript
About the role
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services and cloud infrastructure for Trase's agentic applications.
- Define and own the long-term technical vision and architectural roadmap, aligning it with business and product strategy.
- Drive the selection and governance of foundational technologies, frameworks, and architectural patterns.
- Future-proof the platform by anticipating technical challenges and industry trends.
- Establish and enforce engineering-wide best practices for architecture, code, and design.
- Drive initiatives to reduce technical debt and enhance platform scalability, security, performance, and observability.
- Serve as the decision-maker on critical system designs, ensuring architectural cohesion across teams.
- Mentor senior engineers and tech leads; lead hands-on prototyping and solve complex technical challenges.
- Translate ambiguous business needs into clear technical strategies and communicate architectural decisions to stakeholders.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and participate in executive, product, and enterprise-level alignment.
- Some travel is required.
Requirements
- 10-15+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale, distributed, cloud-native platforms.
- Proven experience as a Principal/Staff Engineer or Senior Architect, setting technical direction and making high-impact architectural decisions across multiple teams.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Go, or Typescript, with a strong ability to write clean, maintainable code.
- Expertise in modern cloud architecture (GCP, AWS, Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and IaC (Terraform).
- Deep knowledge of scalable architectures, API design (REST, gRPC), and event-driven systems.
- A systems-thinking approach to problem-solving and making strategic trade-offs (performance, cost, security).
- Exceptional communication skills with a proven ability to drive technical alignment.
- Significant plus: Experience with infrastructure for ML Ops (model training, deployment, monitoring).
- BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.
- Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay.
- Unlimited PTO, with management approval.
- Opportunities for professional development and continued learning with educational reimbursements.
- Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available.
- Mental health benefits through TARA Mind.
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Hard skills
PythonGoTypescriptcloud architectureGCPAWSAzureDockerKubernetesTerraform
Soft skills
communicationmentoringproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingcollaboration
Certifications
BS in Computer ScienceMS in Computer Science
