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Principal Software Engineer

Workonomics

Greater London

Hybrid

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Job summary

An established, profitable multi-product SaaS company seeks a Principal Software Engineer to join their London team. This role involves scaling core data capabilities, ensuring high availability, and driving best practices in observability. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in cloud-native SaaS platforms and distributed systems, with a passion for collaboration and technical leadership. Join a dynamic team that values longevity and growth, and make a significant impact on the infrastructure of a beloved product with millions of users globally.

Qualifications

Experience in designing and building complex cloud-native platforms.
Proven track record in developing large-scale infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Scale data capabilities significantly to open enterprise opportunities.
Ensure high availability and low-latency data processing across the platform.

Skills

Cloud-native SaaS design

Distributed systems

Infrastructure development

Technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Docker

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Size | 2.5k globally, 300 in London

Role | Principal Software Engineer

Areas | backend infrastructure, distributed systems, data processing

Based | London (Zone 1)

Hybrid | 3 days a week in-office

Workonomics are partnering with a well-known, much-loved, multi-product SaaS company.

They're an established, profitable, maturing business, with millions of users globally.

Their infrastructure group ensure fast queries, high availability, and low-latency data processing across the platform.

This group is looking for a Principal Engineer in London to help:

scale their core data capabilities by 100x to open bigger enterprise opportunities
ensure fast queries, high availability, and low-latency data processing across the platform
drive best practices around observability, ensuring data integrity and service uptime

They're seeking someone with:

a track record designing and building complex, cloud-native SaaS platforms
confidence developing large-scale infrastructure and distributed systems
broad experience as a respected engineering leader, setting technical direction
the ability to convey technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders
a natural desire to collaborate cross-functionally and craft org-wide relationships

This role will suit a hands-on Staff / Principal Engineer / Head of Engineering

This role will not suit a Senior looking to make a step up

They really value people who can demonstrate a good degree of longevity within each employer, to show they've grown with the product long term, through different phases of its evolution.

If this sounds like you, please hit apply for more specifics about the company and role.

Seniority level

Seniority level
Director

Employment type

Employment type
Full-time

Job function

Job function
Information Technology
Industries
Software Development and Technology, Information and Media

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