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Principal Engineer, Enterprise Scalability

Jobgether · US

Extracted from the posting

Base
$244,000 – $366,000
Equity
Equity compensation, subject to eligibility
Remote
Remote from U.S. East Coast; Boston HQ travel once per quarter
Eng team
No direct reports; senior IC
Stack
Python, AWS, Kubernetes, SQL (company stack)

Principal Engineer, Enterprise Scalability, US-based senior individual contributor reporting to the VP of Engineering. The role leads platform-wide scalability, performance, reliability, and multi-region initiatives for a multi-tenant SaaS product, including sharding, caching, and benchmarking tools. The position has no direct reports and requires 12+ years of experience.

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Principal Engineer, Enterprise Scalability based in the United States .

The Principal Engineer will lead platform-wide initiatives to strengthen scalability, performance, reliability, and multi-region readiness for a high-growth, multi-tenant SaaS environment. As a senior individual contributor reporting to the VP of Engineering, you will influence technical strategy through hands-on engineering, architectural leadership, and collaboration across teams. You will identify critical system bottlenecks, drive high-impact improvements, and establish measurable standards that prepare the platform for increasingly demanding enterprise workloads. Working across system design, profiling, implementation, and production rollout, you will help make performance engineering a repeatable part of everyday development. This role offers the opportunity to connect deep technical problem-solving with customer outcomes, enterprise growth, and long-term platform evolution.

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    Company stack

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    PythonAWSKubernetesSQLTypeScriptDockerGoTerraform
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    Jobgether

    Job details

    TypeFull-time
    Work ModeRemote
    LevelLead
    Location🇺🇸Boston, MA
    Salary$244,000 - $366,000
    PostedNov 06, 2026
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