Principal Software Engineer

The role

You will define and drive the architectural direction of Matia's unified DataOps platform. You will design large-scale cloud-native solutions on AWS and mentor technical leaders.

What you will do

• Define, evangelize, and own the overall software architecture vision and strategy.
• Lead the design and evolution of complex, large-scale, and highly distributed cloud-native systems on AWS.
• Establish and enforce architectural standards, best practices, and patterns.
• Collaborate with executive leadership, product management, and engineering teams to translate business strategy into technical roadmaps.
• Provide hands-on architectural guidance, review critical designs, and contribute to proof-of-concepts or complex coding challenges.
• Identify and mitigate architectural risks.
• Mentor and provide technical leadership to senior engineers and other architects.
• Drive technology selection, evaluation, and adoption processes.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of extensive experience in software development.
• At least 3+ years in a dedicated architecture or principal engineering role.
• Proven track record of designing and delivering complex, large-scale SaaS platforms or highly distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in various system architecture patterns (e.g., microservices, event-driven, serverless).
• Mastery of cloud platforms, especially AWS, including extensive experience architecting solutions using a broad range of AWS services.
• Strong capability in technical leadership, architectural governance, and mentorship.
• Ability to make critical high-level decisions with long-term impact on the system.
• Strong hands-on proficiency in core technologies like TypeScript, Node.js, React, and Python.
• Deep understanding of high-performance SQL/NoSQL database design and K8S.
• Experience with message queue technologies (e.g., Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ) for scalable, reliable data pipelines.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and persuasively to diverse audiences.

Nice to have

• Experience within a data tools company (e.g., ETL, Reverse ETL, Observability, Catalog).

About the company

Matia is building a unified platform for the DataOps revolution to streamline data management. The company provides ingestion, reverse ETL, observability, and data cataloging.