Expel is looking for a Principal Engineer to lead the technical vision and architecture of their Data Ingest Platform, which is critical for fueling Expel's services and requires a scalable, reliable, and efficient flow of security data.
Requirements
- Expert-level skills in designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Professional experience developing in Go and/or Python.
- Hands-on experience with cloud and data technologies like Google Cloud (BigQuery, Pub/Sub) or AWS equivalents (Redshift, SQS, Kinesis), along with databases like Postgres and Redis.
- Specific expertise in workflow or task orchestration systems (like Airflow, Prefect, or custom platforms) and a history of creating frameworks or APIs.
- The ability to lead through influence, communicate complex ideas clearly, and mentor other senior engineers.
- Typically 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
Responsibilities
- Be the technical visionary for our core Data Ingest Platform, architecting its future to handle ever-increasing scale and complexity.
- Build the tools, frameworks, and developer experience that make our integration engineers wildly successful and happy.
- Roll up your sleeves and write code for the most critical parts of the platform, setting the standard for quality, performance, and reliability.
- Architecting its future to handle ever-increasing scale and complexity.
- Designing elegant frameworks and APIs that other engineers love to use.
- Tough orchestration and scalability problems as puzzles waiting to be solved.
- Building a platform that makes other developers 10x more productive.
Other
- A deep-seated passion for building platforms and tools that empower other engineers.
- A strong sense of empathy for your users (in this case, other developers!) and a drive to improve their experience.
- The ability to lead through influence, communicate complex ideas clearly, and mentor other senior engineers.
- We're only hiring those authorized to work in the United States. We do not currently sponsor immigration visas.
- You'll receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.
