Principal Backend Engineer, Scalable AI Workflows

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive equity

401(k) program

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Flexible PTO and paid holidays

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Satoriq in New York, NY is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to own the core backend systems of a high-throughput production platform. You will reshape architectures under real load, scaling reliability and correctness as the business grows.

This hands-on, senior‑level role requires 8+ years in backend/distributed systems, expert Go or Python, and experience building microservices, APIs, and event‑driven pipelines.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building backend or distributed systems in production.
• 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 containers and modern infrastructure tooling.
• You have operated as a senior-most engineer on a team, owning ambiguous, high-impact systems.
• Led architectural changes to systems to scale for growth.
• Comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and being accountable for production outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve backend services processing high-volume operational data in production.
• Own and reshape distributed systems powering ingestion, transformation, routing, and persistence workflows.
• Lead decomposition and redesign of legacy 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 technical direction.
• Ship production systems iteratively with reliability and quality.
• Work with modern AI tools to accelerate development and production features.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

Go

Python

APIs

Event-driven

Job description

Satoriq in New York, NY is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to own the core backend systems of a high-throughput production platform. You will reshape architectures under real load, scaling reliability and correctness as the business grows.

This hands-on, senior‑level role requires 8+ years in backend/distributed systems, expert Go or Python, and experience building microservices, APIs, and event‑driven pipelines.