Principal Engineer

Safeguard Global

Principal Engineer at Safeguard Global managing architecture of scalable systems. Leading technical direction and mentoring engineers in distributed environments.

Posted 5/12/2026full-timeRemote • 🇪🇸 SpainLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDistributed SystemsJavaScriptNode.jsTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and drive the architecture of scalable, event-driven systems on AWS
Lead the design and evolution of core platform services and distributed systems
Set technical direction across teams, ensuring consistency and long-term maintainability
Solve complex, cross-cutting engineering problems (e.g. scaling, data consistency, system resilience)
Establish best practices for reliability, observability, and performance across the platform
Design systems that handle high event throughput, failure scenarios, and eventual consistency at scale
Partner closely with Data Engineering to shape data architecture, pipelines, and platform capabilities
Influence and improve engineering standards, tooling, and ways of working
Mentor senior engineers and act as a technical leader across multiple teams
Contribute to strategic technical decisions and roadmap planning

Requirements

What you’ll need

8-12+ years of experience building and scaling backend systems in production environments
Deep expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js preferred) or similar backend ecosystems
Strong hands-on experience designing distributed systems and event-driven architectures
Proven experience architecting systems on AWS, particularly serverless (Lambda, EventBridge, S3, API Gateway)
Track record of leading large-scale technical initiatives or platform transformations
Deep understanding of reliability patterns (e.g. idempotency, retries, backpressure, fault tolerance)
Experience operating systems at scale, including observability, monitoring, and incident response
Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (CDK, Terraform, or similar)
Solid understanding of data modelling and working with high-volume, data-intensive systems
Ability to influence technical direction without direct authority

Benefits

Comp & perks

Autonomous work environment
Generous leave
Paid charitable days off
Corporate bonus/SIP
International environment
Human centered culture
Learning platforms access

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaScriptTypeScriptNode.jsdistributed systemsevent-driven architectureAWSserverlessInfrastructure as Codedata modelingobservability

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringinfluenceproblem-solvingcollaborationcommunicationtechnical directionstrategic decision-makingbest practices establishmentcross-team coordination