Principal Platform Systems Engineer
WISEcode
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
Tech Stack
Distributed SystemsPostgres
About the role
- Translate product ideas, domain concepts, and company vision into durable data models, computation layers, and system contracts that preserve meaning as the platform grows.
- Design and evolve foundational data systems end-to-end and hand them off once patterns are established, documented, and safely extensible by other teams.
- Guide teams through decisions on data modeling, schema evolution, performance tradeoffs, correctness, observability, AI integration, and scale.
- Influence without authority - shaping engineering culture, mentoring senior engineers, and raising the organizational bar through architectural clarity and principled decision-making.
- Partner closely with product, CTO, AI/ML, and engineering teams to shape roadmap feasibility and long-term platform direction.
Requirements
- BSCS or equivalent engineering degree
- 12+ years of strong professional development experience
- Demonstrated ownership of large-scale data platforms or systems whose architecture, performance, and evolution you were personally responsible for over time
- Deep expertise with Postgres, data modeling, schema design, query optimization, and data-intensive systems
- Experience designing and evolving distributed systems and computation pipelines beyond their original requirements
- Track record of technical leadership, mentoring, and cross-team influence as an individual contributor
- Ability to operate independently, set direction, and drive execution in ambiguous or under-specified contexts
- Broad systems thinking with depth in data, computation, and platform architecture
- Experience supporting AI or ML systems through data design, quality, and infrastructure (direct model training experience not required)
- Startup mind - adaptability, urgency, pragmatism, and comfort shifting between experimentation and production delivery.
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- 401(k)
- and other ancillary benefits offerings, along with Paid Time Off for vacation, illness, and other types of leave.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
data modelingschema designquery optimizationdistributed systemscomputation pipelinesdata-intensive systemsPostgresAI integrationobservabilityperformance tradeoffs
Soft skills
influence without authoritymentoringtechnical leadershipcross-team influenceindependent operationsetting directiondriving executionbroad systems thinkingadaptabilitypragmatism
Certifications
BSCS