Andiamo
We are seeking an accomplished Principal Staff Backend Engineer to lead the design and development of scalable, secure, and resilient enterprise systems. You will set technical direction, mentor engineers, and architect platforms that power mission‑critical products. This is a hands‑on leadership role that spans cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, data platforms, and AI integration.
What You Will Do
Architect and Design: Define large scale distributed architectures for reliability, scalability, and performance.
Technical Leadership: Drive engineering standards, code quality, and operational excellence while mentoring senior engineers.
Modern Services: Build and optimize microservices, APIs, and data pipelines using current enterprise technologies.
Enterprise Delivery: Meet strict security, compliance, and performance requirements for global customers.
Innovation: Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies where they add measurable value.
Core Languages
Expert in at least one of Python, Java, or C++
Bonus: Go, Rust, or Scala
Cloud and Infrastructure
Cloud: AWS, Azure, or GCP (multi‑cloud experience is a plus)
Containers and Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation
Serverless: AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, Azure Functions
Networking and Service Mesh: Istio, Linkerd, Envoy, NGINX
CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Argo CD, Jenkins, Spinnaker
APIs and Services
API Styles: REST, GraphQL, gRPC
Architectures: Microservices, event‑driven, CQRS, Saga patterns
Gateway and Management: Kong, Apigee, AWS API Gateway, NGINX
Data and Streaming
Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle
NoSQL and Caching: DynamoDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, Memcached
Streaming and Batch: Kafka, Pulsar, Spark, Flink, Airflow, dbt
Analytics and Warehousing: Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks
Search and Indexing: Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Solr
Object Storage and Lakehouse: S3, GCS, ADLS, Delta Lake, Iceberg, Hudi
AI and Advanced Capabilities
ML Frameworks and Serving: TensorFlow, PyTorch, ONNX Runtime, Triton Inference Server
Feature Stores and Pipelines: Feast, Kubeflow, MLflow
AI Systems Integration: Vector DBs (Pinecone, Milvus, Weaviate), RAG patterns, embeddings
Security and Compliance
Auth and Identity: OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, JWT
Secrets and KMS: HashiCorp Vault, AWS KMS, Azure Key Vault, GCP KMS
Compliance Awareness: SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS
AppSec: SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, SBOM
Reliability and Observability
Monitoring and Tracing: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, ELK/EFK
Resilience: Circuit breakers, rate limiting, backoff, bulkheads, chaos engineering
Performance: Profiling, load testing, capacity planning, autoscaling
Qualifications
10+ years of backend engineering experience including 3+ years at Staff or Principal level
Proven success designing and operating distributed systems at scale
Strong skills in algorithms, data structures, concurrency, and performance tuning
Experience leading architecture reviews and influencing large engineering teams
Clear communication with executives, product, security, and cross‑functional partners
Why Join
You will shape platform strategy, mentor engineers, and build systems that billions can rely on. You will work with state of the art enterprise technology to solve high impact backend challenges.
About Andiamo
Andiamo is a globally recognized staffing and consulting firm specializing in placing the top 2% of technology and go‑to‑market professionals with the world’s largest and most well‑known companies. For over 20 years, we've maintained the status of tier‑one vendor for firms such as Amazon, Bloomberg, Palantir, MasterCard, Visa, Two Sigma, Citadel, as well as other major financial services firms, elite hedge funds, Google‑backed tech start‑ups, and major software firms. Our talent solutions include Permanent Placement, Contract Staffing, Executive Search, and Dedicated Recruiting Services (RPO). Find out more at www.andiamogo.com
Seniority level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Staffing and Recruiting
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What You Will Do
Architect and Design: Define large scale distributed architectures for reliability, scalability, and performance.
Technical Leadership: Drive engineering standards, code quality, and operational excellence while mentoring senior engineers.
Modern Services: Build and optimize microservices, APIs, and data pipelines using current enterprise technologies.
Enterprise Delivery: Meet strict security, compliance, and performance requirements for global customers.
Innovation: Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies where they add measurable value.
Core Languages
Expert in at least one of Python, Java, or C++
Bonus: Go, Rust, or Scala
Cloud and Infrastructure
Cloud: AWS, Azure, or GCP (multi‑cloud experience is a plus)
Containers and Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation
Serverless: AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, Azure Functions
Networking and Service Mesh: Istio, Linkerd, Envoy, NGINX
CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Argo CD, Jenkins, Spinnaker
APIs and Services
API Styles: REST, GraphQL, gRPC
Architectures: Microservices, event‑driven, CQRS, Saga patterns
Gateway and Management: Kong, Apigee, AWS API Gateway, NGINX
Data and Streaming
Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle
NoSQL and Caching: DynamoDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, Memcached
Streaming and Batch: Kafka, Pulsar, Spark, Flink, Airflow, dbt
Analytics and Warehousing: Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks
Search and Indexing: Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Solr
Object Storage and Lakehouse: S3, GCS, ADLS, Delta Lake, Iceberg, Hudi
AI and Advanced Capabilities
ML Frameworks and Serving: TensorFlow, PyTorch, ONNX Runtime, Triton Inference Server
Feature Stores and Pipelines: Feast, Kubeflow, MLflow
AI Systems Integration: Vector DBs (Pinecone, Milvus, Weaviate), RAG patterns, embeddings
Security and Compliance
Auth and Identity: OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, JWT
Secrets and KMS: HashiCorp Vault, AWS KMS, Azure Key Vault, GCP KMS
Compliance Awareness: SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS
AppSec: SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, SBOM
Reliability and Observability
Monitoring and Tracing: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, ELK/EFK
Resilience: Circuit breakers, rate limiting, backoff, bulkheads, chaos engineering
Performance: Profiling, load testing, capacity planning, autoscaling
Qualifications
10+ years of backend engineering experience including 3+ years at Staff or Principal level
Proven success designing and operating distributed systems at scale
Strong skills in algorithms, data structures, concurrency, and performance tuning
Experience leading architecture reviews and influencing large engineering teams
Clear communication with executives, product, security, and cross‑functional partners
Why Join
You will shape platform strategy, mentor engineers, and build systems that billions can rely on. You will work with state of the art enterprise technology to solve high impact backend challenges.
About Andiamo
Andiamo is a globally recognized staffing and consulting firm specializing in placing the top 2% of technology and go‑to‑market professionals with the world’s largest and most well‑known companies. For over 20 years, we've maintained the status of tier‑one vendor for firms such as Amazon, Bloomberg, Palantir, MasterCard, Visa, Two Sigma, Citadel, as well as other major financial services firms, elite hedge funds, Google‑backed tech start‑ups, and major software firms. Our talent solutions include Permanent Placement, Contract Staffing, Executive Search, and Dedicated Recruiting Services (RPO). Find out more at www.andiamogo.com
Seniority level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Staffing and Recruiting
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