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Principal Engineer, Enterprise Scalability

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Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Tue, Nov 03, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

Seeking a Principal Engineer, Enterprise Scalability, this full-time remote position will lead efforts in defining scale readiness, removing bottlenecks, and driving architectural changes to enhance performance and reliability for enterprise customers.

Key responsibilities
  • Establish measurable targets for latency, throughput, and capacity while creating a shared scorecard for enterprise workloads
  • Identify and resolve major bottlenecks using production data and profiling techniques, partnering with service owners for implementation
  • Design and implement architectural strategies such as sharding, caching, and workload isolation to advance multi-region readiness
Required qualifications
  • 12+ years of engineering experience with a focus on scaling multi-tenant SaaS applications
  • Hands-on expertise in performance engineering, capacity planning, and distributed systems
  • Proven ability to investigate systems and roll out changes safely with a strong technical judgment
  • Experience in leading cross-functional teams and aligning them around shared outcomes
  • Practical experience with AI tools and automation in engineering processes

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