Principal Engineer

Requirements

• 3+ years operating at Staff, Principal, Lead Engineer, or equivalent level, driving technical strategy across multiple teams.
• Proven track record leading multi-quarter technical initiatives spanning 3+ engineering teams and delivering measurable improvements in scalability, reliability, developer productivity, or operational efficiency.
• 5+ years operating production systems where relational database architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance were critical concerns. (e.g. 99.9%+ availability targets)
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and experience making architectural decisions involving consistency, availability, partition tolerance, replication and sharding.
• Demonstrated success influencing technical direction without direct managerial authority.
• A high bar for quality of code, testing, and quality of user experience
• Ability to communicate complex technical topics clearly to a wide range of stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Define how AI agents can safely and effectively interact with Smartly's platform, data, and internal systems.
• Shape the technical vision and architecture of Smartly's automation platform, enabling teams to build and operate automations reliably at scale
• Partner with teams building our next-generation data products, helping define the architecture for combining multiple large-scale datasets into a unified and accessible data foundation
• Evolve the architecture and operational model of our largest databases, including sharding, replication, and scaling strategies
• With the team of other Principal Engineers, you will also have a substantial impact on shaping Smartly's technical direction and engineering culture.

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