Principal Backend Engineer, Scalable AI Platform

satoriq; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Health insurance

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Equity

Flexible PTO

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

satoriq is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to own the core backend systems of a high-throughput production platform. You will reshape them under real load, scale reliability, and drive architecture evolution while the business grows.

This is a hands-on, senior contributor role where you’ll influence platform direction and own systems from design to production. You will work closely with senior engineering leadership, build distributed services, and lead modernization efforts across

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building backend or distributed systems in production environments.
• Ownership of services operating under uptime, latency, and scale constraints.
• Strong proficiency in Go, Python, or similar backend languages.
• Experience designing and evolving microservices, APIs, and event-driven systems.
• Hands-on experience with high-volume or unstructured data pipelines.
• Cloud-native experience with containerized systems and modern tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve backend services that process high-volume operational data in production.
• Own and reshape distributed systems powering ingestion, transformation, routing, and persistence workflows.
• Lead the decomposition and redesign of legacy or tightly coupled services into scalable, fault-tolerant systems.
• Build microservices with strong guarantees around performance, availability, and correctness.
• Work with event-driven architectures, messaging systems, and data pipelines at scale.
• Architect and operate cloud-native infrastructure using Kubernetes and GCP.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across services and data flows.
• Partner with engineering leadership on long-term platform architecture and direction.
• Ship production systems iteratively with a high bar for reliability and quality.
• Collaborate with AI tools and integrate them to accelerate development and production features.

Skills

Go

Python

Distributed systems

APIs

Event-driven

Tools

Kubernetes

GCP

Job description

satoriq is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to own the core backend systems of a high-throughput production platform. You will reshape them under real load, scale reliability, and drive architecture evolution while the business grows.

This is a hands-on, senior contributor role where you’ll influence platform direction and own systems from design to production. You will work closely with senior engineering leadership, build distributed services, and lead modernization efforts across