Principal – Staff Software Engineers

🕒 July 28

🏄 California, Texas, +1 more states – Remote

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unstructured.io

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11 - 50 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

Artificial Intelligence • Enterprise • SaaS

unstructured. io is a data transformation company that specializes in extracting and converting complex enterprise data into formats compatible with large language models (LLMs). It offers enterprise-grade connectors to capture data from various sources and transform it into AI-friendly formats, enhancing the data science process by minimizing the time spent on data cleaning and preparation. This enables organizations to efficiently integrate AI capabilities into their workflows, making unstructured data manageable and actionable for advanced analytical use.

📋 Description

• Define and evolve the end-to-end architecture for Unstructured’s data transformation and retrieval platform. • Build and scale distributed systems that process massive volumes of unstructured data across diverse formats and sources. • Serve as the company-wide authority on Kubernetes orchestration, cluster design, performance tuning, and reliability. • Lead Python architecture and best practices—ensuring performance, modularity, and maintainability across services. • Design and optimize Postgres schemas, queries, and indexing strategies to support large-scale metadata and retrieval pipelines. • Mentor senior engineers through design reviews and code guidance, raising the bar for technical excellence across the org. • Partner with the infrastructure and product teams to translate research prototypes into production-grade systems. • Evaluate emerging technologies and open-source tools in LLM infrastructure, retrieval, and orchestration—deciding where and how to integrate them.

🎯 Requirements

• Have 10+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on distributed systems, infrastructure, or data architecture. • Are a Python expert—capable of building frameworks and performance-critical services from scratch. • Have deep Kubernetes expertise; you can design, deploy, and debug at scale and could teach others how to productionize it securely. • Are fluent in Postgres—you understand query planning, partitioning, and tuning for high-throughput environments. • Are obsessed with clean, scalable architecture and can lead design reviews that shape how entire systems evolve. • Have experience in high-performance data or AI/ML systems—especially those involving retrieval pipelines, embeddings, or hybrid workloads. • Thrive in fast-moving, ambiguous environments where technical depth and judgment matter more than process.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage effective the 1st of the month following your start date • Life and disability insurance • Unlimited PTO • Flexible parental leave • 401(k) with company match • Equity • $500 work from home stipend • $70/month internet reimbursement • Team/company offsites throughout the year

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