Principal Platform Engineer, Decision Intelligence

Sand Technologies; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Sand Technologies seeks a Staff/Principal Software Engineer to shape the Decision Intelligence Platform, influencing critical infrastructure across governments and enterprises. You will architect core capabilities spanning data integration, semantic modeling, and AI-powered workflows, owning them from concept to production.

This role requires deep backend and infrastructure expertise, with leadership to mentor engineers, guide architecture, and deliver reliable, scalable systems across cloud and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience across stacks and domains.
• Deep backend and infrastructure expertise with scalable systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve core platform capabilities (data integration, semantic modeling, AI workflows).
• Architect and develop scalable distributed systems across cloud-native, hybrid, and air-gapped environments.
• Own full engineering lifecycle from design to production operations and monitoring.
• Mentor engineers and set engineering standards across teams.
• Collaborate with product and domain experts to translate complex challenges into scalable solutions.

Skills

Kubernetes

TypeScript/Node.js

Python

Distributed systems

Data pipelines

MLOps

Leadership

Cloud/AWS-Azure

Frontend basics

AI/LLM

Tools

Docker

IaC (Terraform)

CI/CD

Job description

Sand Technologies seeks a Staff/Principal Software Engineer to shape the Decision Intelligence Platform, influencing critical infrastructure across governments and enterprises. You will architect core capabilities spanning data integration, semantic modeling, and AI-powered workflows, owning them from concept to production.

This role requires deep backend and infrastructure expertise, with leadership to mentor engineers, guide architecture, and deliver reliable, scalable systems across cloud and