Remote Principal Platform Engineer — Lead Scalable Systems

Safeguard Global; España; Presencial; EUR 90.000 - 110.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Remote-first culture

Strong engineering culture with high自治

Descripción de la vacante

Safeguard Global is hiring for a senior backend engineering role focused on building scalable, event-driven systems in a remote, globally distributed team. You will lead architecture decisions, drive platform services, and guide multiple teams toward reliable, observable solutions that power critical business operations.

You will work with Node.js/TypeScript, AWS serverless patterns, and IaC tools to shape data pipelines, ensure high availability, and mentor engineers across geographies.

Formación

• Significant experience (8–12+ years) 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.

Responsabilidades

• 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.

Conocimientos

Node.js

Distributed systems

AWS serverless

Technical leadership

Observability

IaC

Data modelling

API design

Mentoring

Herramientas

CDK

Terraform

Descripción del empleo

Safeguard Global is hiring for a senior backend engineering role focused on building scalable, event-driven systems in a remote, globally distributed team. You will lead architecture decisions, drive platform services, and guide multiple teams toward reliable, observable solutions that power critical business operations.

You will work with Node.js/TypeScript, AWS serverless patterns, and IaC tools to shape data pipelines, ensure high availability, and mentor engineers across geographies.