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Principal Production Engineer

Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Fri, Aug 14, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

To support the scaling of a data platform for millions of developers, the full-time remote Principal Production Engineer will lead design reviews, develop SDKs and tooling, and establish reliability strategies for database platforms.

Key responsibilities
  • Partner with product teams to shape data modeling and access for optimal application performance
  • Design and ship SDKs and client libraries to enhance application development
  • Set and define reliability strategies, including SLOs and operational standards for database systems
Required qualifications
  • 11+ years of experience in Software Engineering or related technical discipline with production software coding experience in languages such as C, Java, or Python
  • 5+ years of experience operating large-scale distributed systems in production, including on-call rotation participation
  • Experience in designing and implementing disaster recovery and load shedding plans
  • Proven ability to influence engineering decisions and engage in system design discussions
  • Experience with stateful services on managed cloud data stores and diagnosing scalability problems

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