Principal Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $225k - $250k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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SundaySky

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51 - 200 employees

📣 Marketing

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SundaySky is a software development company that specializes in video solutions aimed at enhancing customer retention, engagement, and acquisition. Their innovative platform allows businesses to create personalized and scalable video content without needing extensive video expertise. Focused on customer lifecycle marketing, SundaySky leverages real-time and data-driven video strategies to improve customer experience and drive loyalty across various channels, including social media and video advertising.

📋 Description

• Define and evolve technical architecture for SundaySky's multi-tenant SaaS platform across frontend applications, backend services, data systems, media pipelines, integrations, and cloud infrastructure • Lead technical strategy and design for high-risk, ambiguous, and cross-cutting product and platform initiatives • Translate business strategy, product requirements, and customer needs into scalable technical capabilities and implementation plans • Prototype critical paths, contribute production code, review high-impact changes, and resolve difficult engineering problems • Establish architectural principles, service boundaries, integration patterns, data contracts, and decision records • Drive modernization of established platform components while preserving business continuity • Identify and address systemic risks involving scalability, performance, reliability, availability, security, privacy, operability, and maintainability • Guide architecture for video creation, rendering, personalization, animation, media processing, asset management, analytics, and distribution • Shape responsible use of generative AI, large language models, synthetic media, and AI-assisted engineering tools • Partner with Product, UX, Engineering leadership, DevOps, QA, and Security on solution design, delivery practices, production readiness, and resilience • Lead technical discovery, architecture reviews, design reviews, and cross-team alignment • Create shared frameworks, reusable components, platform services, automation, developer tooling, and engineering standards • Improve technical decision-making through code reviews, design feedback, mentoring, pairing, and written communication • Coach engineers and develop emerging technical leaders • Improve observability, capacity planning, incident response, root-cause analysis, and recurring issue elimination • Evaluate technologies and external platforms through experimentation and evidence-based recommendations • Communicate technical strategy, architectural decisions, risks, and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders

🎯 Requirements

• Approximately 12 or more years of professional software development experience, including significant technical leadership in production SaaS environments • Sustained record of designing, building, and operating complex, business-critical software platforms at scale • Expert full-stack engineering capability • Deep experience in modern JavaScript and TypeScript • Strong proficiency in at least one backend technology such as Node.js, Python, Java, or C# • Advanced experience with modern frontend architecture, preferably React • Deep expertise in distributed systems, service architecture, APIs, asynchronous workflows, event-driven patterns, background processing, and failure handling • Strong experience with relational and non-relational data architecture, schema design, data integrity, migration strategies, and performance optimization • Experience designing enterprise integrations involving third-party APIs, identity providers, data platforms, webhooks, file exchange, and event-based interfaces • Deep understanding of cloud-native architecture, preferably AWS • Experience establishing CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, automated testing, observability, and production-operability practices • Strong knowledge of application and platform security, authentication, authorization, tenant isolation, secrets management, data protection, privacy, and secure software development • Experience designing for scalability, resilience, high availability, graceful degradation, disaster recovery, and measurable service-level objectives • Ability to modernize a mature platform incrementally while continuing to deliver product capabilities and protect customer commitments • Ability to lead architecture and implementation across multiple teams without formal reporting authority • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Preferred: experience with video, audio, media processing, creative tooling, animation, rendering, transcoding, or digital asset management • Preferred: experience with browser-based motion graphics using React, JavaScript, CSS animations, Canvas, WebGL, WebAssembly, or related technologies • Preferred: experience with generative AI, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, prompt orchestration, or AI-generated media • Preferred: experience architecting configurable enterprise platforms and internal developer platforms • Preferred: experience with high-throughput job orchestration, message queues, event buses, streaming systems, or distributed rendering workloads • Preferred: experience with enterprise data connectivity, CRM or customer-data platforms, personalized content systems, or regulated industries • Preferred: experience with AWS or another major cloud provider • Preferred: experience with PostgreSQL • Preferred: experience with automated browser testing frameworks • Preferred: experience with event-driven systems, background jobs, message queues, or asynchronous processing • Preferred: experience integrating third-party applications or services • Preferred: experience working on a multi-tenant SaaS platform • Preferred: experience in an Agile or iterative product-development environment

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual bonus • Equity • 401(k) • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Short-term disability coverage • Paid parental leave • Inclusive work environment