Senior Principal Engineer: Tech Leader & Architect

Pickles Auctions; Petaling Jaya; Hybrid; MYR 220,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

Pickles Auctions in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, is seeking a Principal Engineer to be the senior individual contributor across a product stream made of multiple pods. You will tackle the hardest technical challenges from requirements to production.

You will define early technical direction, maintain alignment with enterprise, cloud, and security guidelines, and mentor Tech Leads and Staff Engineers. Expect broad autonomy and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including TypeScript or a similar web stack language.
• Experience providing technical direction for critical, business-facing systems, across multiple teams
• Microservices and event-driven architecture: service boundaries, async messaging, idempotency, ordering, and dead-letter handling
• RDBMS and NoSQL data modelling, including schema design and query performance
• API design and management, including REST and API gateway patterns
• Observability grounded in OpenTelemetry, plus familiarity with APM/dashboard tooling (Dynatrace, Grafana, or similar)
• AuthN/AuthZ, least-privilege IAM, and secrets management fundamentals
• Experience with Azure (desirable, but not essential)

Responsibilities

• Lead and drive hardest technical challenges across the full delivery lifecycle.
• Provide technical leadership from requirements through production.
• Lead multi-pod initiatives where direction is evolving.
• Set engineering standards and best practices for the stream.
• Lead architecture and design reviews within enterprise, cloud, and security guidelines.
• Spot systemic risks in distributed, near-real-time systems and drive resolution.
• Mentor and develop Tech Leads and Staff Engineers.
• Support the Engineering Manager on the day-to-day technical issues.
• Represent the product stream in cross-functional technical discussions.

Skills

10+ years experience

TypeScript

Microservices

Data modelling

API design

Observability

IAM fundamentals

Azure experience

Dynatrace

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Tools

Dynatrace

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Pickles Auctions in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, is seeking a Principal Engineer to be the senior individual contributor across a product stream made of multiple pods. You will tackle the hardest technical challenges from requirements to production.

You will define early technical direction, maintain alignment with enterprise, cloud, and security guidelines, and mentor Tech Leads and Staff Engineers. Expect broad autonomy and collaboration with cross-functional teams.