Principal Backend Engineer, Unstructured Data Pipelines

Fuel Talent LLC

Seattle (WA)

Hybrid

USD 160,000 - 200,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Fuel Talent LLC is seeking a Staff/Principal Backend Engineer to own, operate, and improve a major vertical of an unstructured data platform in Seattle. This hybrid role requires hands-on production work, system design, and end-to-end ownership across ingestion, indexing, storage, and retrieval of large data volumes.

The position offers a base salary of $160,000–$200,000 with upside equity (up to 1%), and an opportunity to shape critical services with strong observability and reliability.

Job description

Fuel Talent LLC is seeking a Staff/Principal Backend Engineer to own, operate, and improve a major vertical of an unstructured data platform in Seattle. This hybrid role requires hands-on production work, system design, and end-to-end ownership across ingestion, indexing, storage, and retrieval of large data volumes.

The position offers a base salary of $160,000–$200,000 with upside equity (up to 1%), and an opportunity to shape critical services with strong observability and reliability.

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