Principal Engineer, Backend

London. Posted 3 months ago

The role

A Principal Engineer will join the Foundations team to build reliable, scalable, and fast distributed and data intensive systems. You will own major architectural decisions and design database and processing-system initiatives to handle increasing data volumes.

What you will do

Design and lead major database and processing-system initiatives
Design performant protocols and APIs
Build robust distributed systems
Reason about how systems fail and behave under load
Level up engineers through design reviews, pairing, and mentorship

Required qualifications

10+ years building large-scale backend infrastructure applications
Several years operating at staff/principal level with company-wide technical influence
Deep expertise in distributed systems (databases, processing systems, replication, partitioning, queuing, caching)
Experience leading large-scale data migrations and system-splitting or re-architecture projects
Experience owning reliability and operations in production, including monitoring, alerting, and DevOps/SRE
Track record of raising engineering quality across teams through architecture reviews, code reviews, testing, rollout, and monitoring practices
Demonstrated ability to influence without authority

Nice to have

Experience with Python
Experience with TypeScript and React
Experience with Kubernetes
Experience with GCP
Experience with PyTorch, CUDA, Ray

Benefits

Competitive salary, commission, and meaningful equity
Clear, accelerated growth opportunities
Daily team lunches & dinners
Annual learning & development budget
Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
US employees: 18 paid vacation days plus US public holidays
UK employees: 25 paid vacation days plus UK public holidays
Frequent travel opportunities across the U.S., London, and Europe
Bi-annual company offsites & monthly socials

About the company

Encord is the data layer for Physical AI and enterprise, serving as core infrastructure for 300+ leading AI teams. The company has raised $110M from technology investors.