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Senior Principal Engineer
Unusual Ventures
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
Tech Stack
CloudDistributed SystemsMicroservices
About the role
- Architectural Leadership: Define and evolve the company’s long-term architectural vision. Provide technical direction that balances innovation, scalability, and maintainability.
- System Design and Scalability: Design, implement, and scale distributed systems and core services to handle growth in data, users, and features.
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with Product, Engineering and business teams to align technical roadmaps with business objectives. Act as a trusted advisor to Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers.
- Generative AI Initiatives: Lead or contribute to projects leveraging open-source LLMs (e.g., Llama, Mistral, Falcon, or similar): own model integration, fine-tuning, and scalable deployment pipelines.
- Technical Excellence: Establish best practices for architecture reviews, design documentation, and system observability to ensure optimal performance and reliability. Drive adoption of modern development frameworks and standards.
- Hands-on Development: Write clean, efficient, and well-tested code. Contribute directly to core systems and frameworks that enable teams to move faster and deliver higher-quality software.
- Mentorship & Influence: Coach senior engineers and influence decision-making across teams through technical reviews, design sessions, and hands-on prototyping.
- Execution and Delivery: Work closely with leadership and stakeholders to turn complex ideas into reliable, production-ready systems that deliver measurable business impact.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 4+ years in principal or staff-plus roles.
- Proven track record designing, implementing, and scaling distributed systems or platforms.
- Experience driving architectural initiatives across multiple teams and domains.
- Deep understanding of backend architectures, data modeling, and system reliability patterns.
- Demonstrated success in delivering GenAI or ML-driven applications using open-source LLMs and cloud-native infrastructure.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Passion for mentorship, technical leadership, and hands-on coding.
- Bonus Qualifications
- Experience with multi-tenant SaaS architecture and microservices at scale.
- Familiarity with vector databases, prompt engineering, and AI orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, etc.).
- Prior experience in shaping technical strategy within high-growth startups or enterprise environments.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
distributed systemsbackend architecturesdata modelingsystem reliability patternsGenerative AImachine learningopen-source LLMscloud-native infrastructuremulti-tenant SaaS architecturemicroservices
Soft skills
communication skillsmentorshiptechnical leadershipinfluencecollaborationcoachingdecision-makingexecutiondeliveryproblem-solving
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