Role Description

Responsibilities

• Technical leadership and architecture: Define and drive the technical roadmap for identity and engagement platform services, including APIs, service boundaries, data models, and reliability goals.
• Modernization and platform evolution: Lead multi-quarter modernization efforts (e.g., reducing legacy dependencies, improving scalability, simplifying integrations) with a focus on cohesion, observability, and operational excellence.
• Identity and access systems: Design and improve authentication, authorization, account integrity, and identity lifecycle services with strong security and privacy posture.
• Engagement and insights foundations: Build and evolve the systems that power engagement signals, experimentation hooks, telemetry/analytics pipelines, and usage insights to support product iteration and growth.
• Developer velocity and platform enablement: Create reusable platform primitives, reference architectures, and best practices that make it easier for product teams to build safely and quickly.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Partner with Product, Design, Security, Infrastructure, and AI/ML teams to align technical decisions with customer outcomes and organizational priorities.
• Execution and quality: Own delivery of complex initiatives end-to-end—breaking down ambiguous problems, driving alignment, and ensuring high-quality implementation, testing, rollout, and oncall readiness.
• Mentorship and influence: Mentor senior engineers, review critical designs, elevate engineering standards, and influence technical direction across teams beyond your immediate scope.

Requirements

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience designing and operating large-scale backend or platform systems.
• Proven ability to lead architecture for distributed systems with high reliability, performance, and security requirements.
• Strong expertise in at least two of the following areas: identity/authn/authz, service API design, analytics/telemetry infrastructure, search/retrieval foundations, experimentation platforms, or engagement systems.
• Track record of driving modernization efforts in complex environments (e.g., migrating legacy systems, improving data quality and observability, simplifying architecture).
• Excellent technical judgment and ability to balance speed, stability, and long-term maintainability.
• Strong communication skills: able to write clear design docs, align stakeholders, and lead technical decision-making across teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud-scale identity platforms (SSO, session management, risk signals, account security, privacy controls).
• Familiarity with AI enablement infrastructure, especially data pipelines, engagement signals, retrieval/search systems, and feedback loops.
• Experience building or operating multi-tenant SaaS platforms with strong compliance and security requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to influence org-wide standards and technical strategy (beyond a single team), including mentorship of other tech leads and principals.

Compensation

Role Description

Responsibilities

• Technical leadership and architecture: Define and drive the technical roadmap for identity and engagement platform services, including APIs, service boundaries, data models, and reliability goals.
• Modernization and platform evolution: Lead multi-quarter modernization efforts (e.g., reducing legacy dependencies, improving scalability, simplifying integrations) with a focus on cohesion, observability, and operational excellence.
• Identity and access systems: Design and improve authentication, authorization, account integrity, and identity lifecycle services with strong security and privacy posture.
• Engagement and insights foundations: Build and evolve the systems that power engagement signals, experimentation hooks, telemetry/analytics pipelines, and usage insights to support product iteration and growth.
• Developer velocity and platform enablement: Create reusable platform primitives, reference architectures, and best practices that make it easier for product teams to build safely and quickly.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Partner with Product, Design, Security, Infrastructure, and AI/ML teams to align technical decisions with customer outcomes and organizational priorities.
• Execution and quality: Own delivery of complex initiatives end-to-end—breaking down ambiguous problems, driving alignment, and ensuring high-quality implementation, testing, rollout, and oncall readiness.
• Mentorship and influence: Mentor senior engineers, review critical designs, elevate engineering standards, and influence technical direction across teams beyond your immediate scope.

Requirements

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience designing and operating large-scale backend or platform systems.
• Proven ability to lead architecture for distributed systems with high reliability, performance, and security requirements.
• Strong expertise in at least two of the following areas: identity/authn/authz, service API design, analytics/telemetry infrastructure, search/retrieval foundations, experimentation platforms, or engagement systems.
• Track record of driving modernization efforts in complex environments (e.g., migrating legacy systems, improving data quality and observability, simplifying architecture).
• Excellent technical judgment and ability to balance speed, stability, and long-term maintainability.
• Strong communication skills: able to write clear design docs, align stakeholders, and lead technical decision-making across teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud-scale identity platforms (SSO, session management, risk signals, account security, privacy controls).
• Familiarity with AI enablement infrastructure, especially data pipelines, engagement signals, retrieval/search systems, and feedback loops.
• Experience building or operating multi-tenant SaaS platforms with strong compliance and security requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to influence org-wide standards and technical strategy (beyond a single team), including mentorship of other tech leads and principals.

Compensation

Role Description

The Principal Software Engineer is a highly skilled expert responsible for shaping and executing the organization’s intelligence vision. This role integrates expertise in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Automation, Data Analytics and Visualization to deliver transformative customer, partner, and colleague experiences that drive revenue growth and enhance productivity.

The position defines the technical direction for intelligence initiatives, leading the design, development, and deployment of robust, scalable, and secure AI solutions while fostering innovation through emerging technologies.

A critical aspect of the role is providing partnership, mentorship and technical guidance, cultivating a culture of excellence and continuous learning. Through close cross-functional collaboration across teams and stakeholders, the role ensures technical efforts are strategically aligned and deliver measurable impact. Additionally, the position plays a central role in strategic problem-solving, addressing complex challenges in intelligence systems and data pipelines, and making informed architectural decisions that ensure long-term scalability and success.

Responsibilities

• Define, drive, and communicate the technical vision for intelligence, AI, and data initiatives, ensuring alignment with CIT strategy, EPD goals, and broader organizational objectives.
• Take a holistic view of CIT systems and architecture to ensure they are scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable over multiple years.
• Lead the design, development, and deployment of high performance AI systems, data pipelines, and intelligent services from conception through production.
• Make strategic architectural decisions to address complex AI, data, and platform challenges, balancing short term delivery with long term resilience and scalability
• Identify opportunities to simplify systems, reduce operational and security risk, and improve developer productivity.
• Contribute directly to prototyping, proof of concepts, and implementation of technical components when needed to validate strategy, de risk decisions, or accelerate progress.
• Architect, evolve, and scale AI, automation, and intelligence platforms that enable advanced analytics, personalization, search, and intelligent decision making.
• Drive innovation in intelligence models, distributed training, optimization techniques, and data engineering to maximize performance, quality, and business impact.
• Enhance search and discovery capabilities using intelligent algorithms, natural language processing, and modern data systems.
• Evaluate, select, and integrate emerging technologies in AI, ML, and automation to maintain a competitive and forward looking technical posture.
• Partner across engineering, product, design, infrastructure, and other stakeholders to ensure intelligence initiatives directly support strategic objectives.
• Translate technical capabilities and advancements into clear business outcomes that improve productivity, efficiency, and growth.
• Resolve conflicting requirements and priorities with sound technical judgment that favors long term organizational outcomes over local optimization.
• Advocate for intelligence driven solutions across the organization and influence company wide technical priorities.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to senior engineering leadership, with IC6 scope extending to org wide and EPD level strategy.
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to engineers and data scientists from mid level through senior, fostering continuous learning and technical excellence.
• Serve as a technical multiplier by raising the effectiveness of surrounding teams through design reviews, code reviews, architectural guidance, and pragmatic execution.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing across teams through documentation, design writeups, technical discussions, and mentorship programs.
• Act as a voice for engineers by synthesizing feedback, surfacing gaps and risks, and communicating them clearly to leadership.
• Contribute to multi year technical vision and roadmap planning, anticipating future scale, complexity, and organizational needs.
• Identify architectural, operational, and security risks early and mobilize proactive mitigation plans across org boundaries.
• Partner closely with managers, product leaders, and senior engineers to ensure ambitious initiatives remain feasible, sustainable, and well aligned.
• For IC6 scope, influence technical direction beyond CIT and partner directly with senior EPD leadership on company wide strategy.
• Lead and support critical, high impact initiatives by defining technical direction, clarifying requirements, gathering estimates, and ensuring delivery against milestones.
• Drive execution on complex projects with significant ambiguity or high cost of failure.
• Improve engineering effectiveness by championing best practices such as CI, automated testing, reliability reviews, and clear ownership models.
• Promote a bias toward action, thoughtful experimentation, and continuous learning.
• Model excellence in engineering craft, collaboration, accountability, and inclusive behavior.
• Lead by example in living Dropbox values, including integrity, ownership, simplicity, and inclusivity.
• Support hiring by interviewing, calibrating candidates against a high technical bar, and representing Dropbox authentically to candidates and partners.

Requirements

• 12+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with depth in areas such as intelligent workflows, enterprise scale AI adoption, automation, or data engineering.
• Proven track record of leading large scale, multi team technical initiatives from conception to production, including solving ambiguous problems, setting technical vision, and driving impact without direct authority.
• Strong architectural judgment and systems thinking, with the ability to balance short term delivery with long term sustainability, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Demonstrated ability to influence across teams and disciplines through technical leadership, collaboration, and sound decision making rather than formal authority.
• Experience mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar of an organization through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain complex technical concepts, translate technical strategy to diverse audiences, and influence stakeholders at all levels.

Role Description

The Principal Software Engineer is a highly skilled expert responsible for shaping and executing the organization’s intelligence vision. This role integrates expertise in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Automation, Data Analytics and Visualization to deliver transformative customer, partner, and colleague experiences that drive revenue growth and enhance productivity.

The position defines the technical direction for intelligence initiatives, leading the design, development, and deployment of robust, scalable, and secure AI solutions while fostering innovation through emerging technologies.

A critical aspect of the role is providing partnership, mentorship and technical guidance, cultivating a culture of excellence and continuous learning. Through close cross-functional collaboration across teams and stakeholders, the role ensures technical efforts are strategically aligned and deliver measurable impact. Additionally, the position plays a central role in strategic problem-solving, addressing complex challenges in intelligence systems and data pipelines, and making informed architectural decisions that ensure long-term scalability and success.

Responsibilities

• Define, drive, and communicate the technical vision for intelligence, AI, and data initiatives, ensuring alignment with CIT strategy, EPD goals, and broader organizational objectives.
• Take a holistic view of CIT systems and architecture to ensure they are scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable over multiple years.
• Lead the design, development, and deployment of high performance AI systems, data pipelines, and intelligent services from conception through production.
• Make strategic architectural decisions to address complex AI, data, and platform challenges, balancing short term delivery with long term resilience and scalability
• Identify opportunities to simplify systems, reduce operational and security risk, and improve developer productivity.
• Contribute directly to prototyping, proof of concepts, and implementation of technical components when needed to validate strategy, de risk decisions, or accelerate progress.
• Architect, evolve, and scale AI, automation, and intelligence platforms that enable advanced analytics, personalization, search, and intelligent decision making.
• Drive innovation in intelligence models, distributed training, optimization techniques, and data engineering to maximize performance, quality, and business impact.
• Enhance search and discovery capabilities using intelligent algorithms, natural language processing, and modern data systems.
• Evaluate, select, and integrate emerging technologies in AI, ML, and automation to maintain a competitive and forward looking technical posture.
• Partner across engineering, product, design, infrastructure, and other stakeholders to ensure intelligence initiatives directly support strategic objectives.
• Translate technical capabilities and advancements into clear business outcomes that improve productivity, efficiency, and growth.
• Resolve conflicting requirements and priorities with sound technical judgment that favors long term organizational outcomes over local optimization.
• Advocate for intelligence driven solutions across the organization and influence company wide technical priorities.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to senior engineering leadership, with IC6 scope extending to org wide and EPD level strategy.
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to engineers and data scientists from mid level through senior, fostering continuous learning and technical excellence.
• Serve as a technical multiplier by raising the effectiveness of surrounding teams through design reviews, code reviews, architectural guidance, and pragmatic execution.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing across teams through documentation, design writeups, technical discussions, and mentorship programs.
• Act as a voice for engineers by synthesizing feedback, surfacing gaps and risks, and communicating them clearly to leadership.
• Contribute to multi year technical vision and roadmap planning, anticipating future scale, complexity, and organizational needs.
• Identify architectural, operational, and security risks early and mobilize proactive mitigation plans across org boundaries.
• Partner closely with managers, product leaders, and senior engineers to ensure ambitious initiatives remain feasible, sustainable, and well aligned.
• For IC6 scope, influence technical direction beyond CIT and partner directly with senior EPD leadership on company wide strategy.
• Lead and support critical, high impact initiatives by defining technical direction, clarifying requirements, gathering estimates, and ensuring delivery against milestones.
• Drive execution on complex projects with significant ambiguity or high cost of failure.
• Improve engineering effectiveness by championing best practices such as CI, automated testing, reliability reviews, and clear ownership models.
• Promote a bias toward action, thoughtful experimentation, and continuous learning.
• Model excellence in engineering craft, collaboration, accountability, and inclusive behavior.
• Lead by example in living Dropbox values, including integrity, ownership, simplicity, and inclusivity.
• Support hiring by interviewing, calibrating candidates against a high technical bar, and representing Dropbox authentically to candidates and partners.

Requirements

• 12+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with depth in areas such as intelligent workflows, enterprise scale AI adoption, automation, or data engineering.
• Proven track record of leading large scale, multi team technical initiatives from conception to production, including solving ambiguous problems, setting technical vision, and driving impact without direct authority.
• Strong architectural judgment and systems thinking, with the ability to balance short term delivery with long term sustainability, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Demonstrated ability to influence across teams and disciplines through technical leadership, collaboration, and sound decision making rather than formal authority.
• Experience mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar of an organization through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain complex technical concepts, translate technical strategy to diverse audiences, and influence stakeholders at all levels.

The salary range for this role is $6,000 - $12,500 per month (Gross in USD) 

About Sezzle:

With a mission to financially empower the next generation, Sezzle is revolutionizing the shopping experience beyond payments, blending cutting-edge tech with seamless, interest-free installment plans that make shopping smarter and more accessible. We’re not just transforming payments; we’re redefining how people discover, interact with, and purchase the things they love while driving real impact on merchant sales through increased conversions and higher order values. As we continue to shape the future of fintech and retail, we’re building an innovative, dynamic team passionate about creating more than just a transaction but a truly unique shopping journey. If you’re excited about pushing boundaries in tech and delivering a game-changing experience for consumers and merchants alike, come join us at Sezzle and help create the future of shopping!

Compensation:

For this principal development role, with 12+ years of experience, the compensation range is  $6,000 - $12,500 per month. This range acknowledges the extensive expertise, leadership capabilities, and significant contributions expected at this level, offering a competitive salary to reflect the value of advanced skills and experience.

Interview Process

We believe transparency is important at Sezzle. Regularly providing feedback while setting expectations is part of our culture starting with the interview process. Advancement through each step is not guaranteed.

• Application submitted (you are here)
• Wonderlic test (30-40 min)
• Interview with recruiters (30 min)
• Coding assessment (~1.5 hours)
• Interview with engineers (1 hour)
• Interview with engineering leadership (30-45 min)
• Offer!

About the Role: 

We are seeking a talented and motivated best-in-class Principal Software Engineer. This role presents an exciting opportunity to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment within a rapidly growing team, with abundant prospects for career advancement.

As a Principal Software Engineer with Sezzle, you will work with highly-motivated teams to tackle interesting and challenging problems across multiple areas of the organization. Your experience and guidance will help other members of the team level-up their own skills as well. You will spend your time working with AI/ML tooling to identify creative uses to fill existing and emerging gaps in the applications.

In this backend focused role, you will work closely with stakeholders from Product, Support and the business. You’ll also partner with other engineering teams to provide high-quality, scalable, and innovative solutions to internal and customer problems. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include designing, developing, and delivering new features, as well as unblocking and mentoring your teammates. Your work will generally focus on the lower level features and optimizations.

This role has both an internal and external focus, your contributions will make a meaningful difference in the day-to-day lives of your peers at Sezzle, enhancing their ability to support our business and customers, and you will have opportunities to take any feedback and iterate.

What You'll Do:

• Architect, design, and build scalable backend services and APIs primarily in Golang, leveraging AWS, RDS (MySQL/Postgres), and modern distributed patterns.
• Lead Sezzle’s AI enablement efforts, identifying opportunities to apply AI and automation to enhance developer productivity, internal tooling, and customer experiences.
• Partner with teams across the organization to integrate modern AI capabilities - Primarily around tools like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and enhancing team productivity.
• Drive consistency and scalability across a distributed microservices architecture while maintaining performance and reliability.
• Establish and evolve engineering best practices for observability, security, and CI/CD across teams.
• Mentor engineers and champion a culture of learning, innovation, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to translate business goals into technical roadmaps and deliver results that matter.

What We Look For:

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant backend experience.
• Deployed significant changes to a production application in the past 30 days.
• Strong proficiency in Golang, with experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs.
• Expertise with SQL-based RDBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and experience optimizing schema and queries for performance at scale.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems design patterns (e.g., transactional outbox, event-driven architecture, queues).
• Demonstrated ability to bring new ideas forward, influence decisions, and lead complex technical initiatives.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Knowledge and Skills:

• Proficiency in observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic).
• Experience with AWS cloud infrastructure, mainly AWS Aurora RDS, both MySQL and Postgres.
• Experience in fintech, payments, BNPL, or consumer lending - familiarity with financial compliance, credit decisioning, or transaction processing systems.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerized microservices (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Working knowledge of TypeScript, React, or React Native.
• Familiarity with AI/ML tooling (e.g., OpenAI API, LangChain, Hugging Face, or custom LLM integrations).
• Track record of shipping commercial APIs and data-driven applications in high-growth environments.
• Proven leadership in guiding technical direction, improving system reliability, and scaling engineering organizations.

About You: 

• You have relentlessly high standards - many people may think your standards are unreasonably high. You are continually raising the bar and driving those around you to deliver great results. You make sure that defects do not get sent down the line and that problems are fixed so they stay fixed.
• You’re not bound by convention - your success—and much of the fun—lies in developing new ways to do things
• You need action - speed matters in business. Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. We value calculated risk-taking.
• You earn trust - you listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully.
• You have backbone; disagree, then commit - you can respectfully challenge decisions when you disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. You have conviction and are tenacious. You do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Once a decision is determined, you commit wholly.
• You deliver results - you focus on the key inputs and deliver them with the right quality and in a timely fashion. Despite setbacks, you rise to the occasion and never settle.

Sezzle’s Technology Stack:

• Languages: Golang, Typescript, Python
• Frontend: Typescript - React and React Native
• Backend: Golang
• Database: MySQL, Postgres, Elasticsearch
• DevOps & Cloud: AWS, Kubernetes
• Version Control: Git
• CI/CD: Gitlab
• Testing: Developer and AI-driven, focus on automated end-to-end, integration, and unit tests
• Open Source: Sezzle is focused on using open source, and we build what we can before buying!

What Makes Working at Sezzle Awesome? 

At Sezzle, we are more than just brilliant engineers, passionate data enthusiasts, out-of-the-box thinkers, and determined innovators; we are skilled musicians, yogis, cyclists, chefs, golfers, dog-lovers, and rock-climbers. We believe in surrounding ourselves with not only the best and the brightest individuals, but those that are unique and purpose-driven in all that they do. Our culture is not defined by a certain set of perks designed to give the illusion of the traditional startup culture, but rather, it is the visible example living in every employee that we hire.

#Li-remote #full-time

The salary range for this role is $5,000 - $9,500 per month (Gross in USD)

About Sezzle:

With a mission to financially empower the next generation, Sezzle is revolutionizing the shopping experience beyond payments, blending cutting-edge tech with seamless, interest-free installment plans that make shopping smarter and more accessible. We’re not just transforming payments; we’re redefining how people discover, interact with, and purchase the things they love while driving real impact on merchant sales through increased conversions and higher order values. As we continue to shape the future of fintech and retail, we’re building an innovative, dynamic team passionate about creating more than just a transaction but a truly unique shopping journey. If you’re excited about pushing boundaries in tech and delivering a game-changing experience for consumers and merchants alike, come join us at Sezzle and help create the future of shopping!

Compensation:

For this principal development role, with 6+ years of experience, the compensation range is $5,000 - $9,500 USD based on experience level per month and in gross amount. This range acknowledges the extensive expertise, leadership capabilities, and significant contributions expected at this level, offering a competitive salary to reflect the value of advanced skills and experience

About the Role: 

We are seeking a hands-on, high-impact Senior Security Infrastructure Engineer to help strengthen Sezzle’s security posture across cloud infrastructure, applications, and developer workflows. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment and wants to work on real-world security problems at scale.

As a Senior Security Infrastructure Engineer, you will have a high degree of ownership and autonomy to identify risks, investigate issues, and drive meaningful security improvements across our systems. You will work across vulnerability management, detection engineering, supply chain security, and incident response - partnering closely with engineering teams to ensure security is practical, effective, and embedded into how we build and operate systems. You should consider yourself a DOer - someone who is comfortable diving into logs, analyzing systems, validating findings, and working end-to-end to get issues resolved. We value engineers who bring strong technical depth, good judgment, and the ability to turn security insights into actionable outcomes.

This role offers the opportunity to shape and scale security capabilities, including detection systems, supply chain risk controls, and security automation. With the support of modern tooling (including AI where appropriate), you will play a key role in improving efficiency, visibility, and resilience across the organization. This role combines hands-on security operations with exploratory and design work. You will spend significant time investigating and resolving real-world issues, while also researching, evaluating, and building new security capabilities across areas like detection, supply chain security, and data protection.

What You’ll Do: 

• Lead and operate vulnerability management across infrastructure, platforms, and applications - including internal scans, dependency analysis, and external findings, validating true positives and driving remediation with engineering teams
• Build, operate, and mature SIEM/XDR capabilities, including log ingestion, detection rule development, alert tuning, and investigation workflows
• Investigate and respond to security incidents across cloud infrastructure and applications, performing root cause analysis and driving long-term fixes
• Design and implement detection strategies for suspicious activity, including data exfiltration patterns using application and database telemetry
• Lead and contribute to threat modeling exercises and security design reviews to identify risks early and strengthen architecture
• Apply deep expertise in AWS and Kubernetes to design, secure, and improve resilient and secure cloud infrastructure at scale
• Drive infrastructure and CI/CD hardening initiatives, with a focus on reducing software and container supply chain risk
• Lead efforts to implement and improve dependency and container supply chain risk detection systems and controls
• Partner closely with engineering teams to remediate vulnerabilities and improve secure development and deployment practices
• Support and implement security controls aligned with PCI DSS, SOC 2, and other compliance requirements
• Develop and implement automation (including AI where appropriate) to improve efficiency in security operations, detection, and response
• Triage and validate external security findings, distinguishing true positives and coordinating remediation

What We Look For: 

• 6+ years of experience in security, software, or infrastructure engineering, with hands-on experience securing cloud-based production systems and working with real-world security challenges
• Experience contributing to threat modeling and security design reviews for modern systems
• Strong hands-on experience in vulnerability management, including scanning, triage, validation, remediation coordination, and verification
• Experience working with SIEM platforms (e.g., Wazuh, Splunk, ELK) for detection engineering, monitoring, and incident response
• Practical experience triaging findings from vulnerability scanners and bug bounty programs
• Strong knowledge of AWS, Linux, and Kubernetes infrastructure, including security architecture, hardening, and operational best practices
• Experience improving infrastructure security, including CI/CD hardening and mitigating software supply chain risks
• Experience with container and dependency security tools (e.g., Snyk, Trivy, Grype, etc.)
• Ability to investigate issues directly using logs, cloud tooling, and system-level data
• Knowledge of common security vulnerabilities and mitigation strategies (OWASP, SANS, etc.)
• Working knowledge of compliance frameworks such as PCI DSS and SOC 2

Preferred Knowledge and Skills:

• Experience designing and tuning detection rules, reducing alert noise, and improving investigation workflows
• Strong understanding of cloud-native security controls, including IAM, network segmentation, and container security
• Familiarity with log-based detection, telemetry pipelines, and security analytics use cases
• Experience designing secure CI/CD workflows that reduce exposure to vulnerable dependencies and untrusted artifacts
• Ability to assess application and infrastructure risk and translate findings into actionable improvements
• Experience aligning technical security work with regulatory and compliance expectations
• Experience using automation and AI to reduce manual effort and improve consistency at scale

About You: 

• You think proactively about security and work to address risk early through clear design feedback and practical engineering solutions
• You bring strong cloud and infrastructure judgment, especially in AWS and Kubernetes environments
• You raise the bar on hardening and operational discipline, especially in CI/CD and supply chain security practices
• You approach security monitoring with an investigator’s mindset and can turn telemetry into meaningful detection and response outcomes
• You are excited to use automation and emerging technologies (including AI) to automate repetitive security work and improve team effectiveness
• You balance strong security standards with business needs and can support privacy and compliance requirements in a practical, scalable way
• You have relentlessly high standards - many people may think your standards are unreasonably high. You are continually raising the bar and driving those around you to deliver great results. You make sure that defects do not get sent down the line and that problems are fixed so they stay fixed.
• You’re not bound by convention - your success—and much of the fun—lies in developing new ways to do things
• You need action - speed matters in business. Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. We value calculated risk-taking.
• You earn trust - you listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully.
• You have backbone; disagree, then commit - you can respectfully challenge decisions when you disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. You have conviction and are tenacious. You do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Once a decision is determined, you commit wholly.
• You deliver results - you focus on the key inputs and deliver them with the right quality and in a timely fashion. Despite setbacks, you rise to the occasion and never settle.

Sezzle’s Technology Stack:

• Languages: Golang, Typescript, Python
• Frontend: Typescript - React and React Native
• Backend: Golang
• Database: MySQL, Postgres, Elasticsearch
• DevOps & Cloud: AWS, Kubernetes
• Version Control: Git
• CI/CD: Gitlab
• Testing: Developer and AI-driven, focus on automated end-to-end, integration, and unit tests
• Open Source: Sezzle is focused on using open source, and we build what we can before buying!

What Makes Working at Sezzle Awesome? 

At Sezzle, we are more than just brilliant engineers, passionate data enthusiasts, out-of-the-box thinkers, and determined innovators; we are skilled musicians, yogis, cyclists, chefs, golfers, dog-lovers, and rock-climbers. We believe in surrounding ourselves with not only the best and the brightest individuals, but those that are unique and purpose-driven in all that they do. Our culture is not defined by a certain set of perks designed to give the illusion of the traditional startup culture, but rather, it is the visible example living in every employee that we hire.

#Li-remote #full-time

The salary range for this role is negotiable, the range being $6,000-$12,500 per month (Gross in USD), based on location and experience level.  

About Sezzle:

With a mission to financially empower the next generation, Sezzle is revolutionizing the shopping experience beyond payments, blending cutting-edge tech with seamless, interest-free installment plans that make shopping smarter and more accessible. We’re not just transforming payments; we’re redefining how people discover, interact with, and purchase the things they love while driving real impact on merchant sales through increased conversions and higher order values. As we continue to shape the future of fintech and retail, we’re building an innovative, dynamic team passionate about creating more than just a transaction but a truly unique shopping journey. If you’re excited about pushing boundaries in tech and delivering a game-changing experience for consumers and merchants alike, come join us at Sezzle and help create the future of shopping!

Compensation:

For this principal development role, with 12+ years of experience, the compensation range is  $6,000 - $12,500 USD based on location and experience level per month and in gross amount. This range acknowledges the extensive expertise, leadership capabilities, and significant contributions expected at this level, offering a competitive salary to reflect the value of advanced skills and experience

About the Role: 

We are seeking a talented and motivated, best-in-class Principal Engineer for our Data Infrastructure. This role presents an exciting opportunity to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment within a rapidly growing team, with abundant prospects for career advancement.

Sezzle is growing; our data generation and consumption is growing with us at an increasing scale. Data is extremely valuable, and we want to empower the business, the engineers, and the rest of the organization to be able to read, write, and analyze large volumes of it quickly and efficiently.

Sezzle is a heavy consumer of MySQL, Postgres, and Redshift, leveraging AWS tooling with Aurora RDS and DMS. We use DBT-based transformations and similar toolkits to populate a rapidly growing data lake that supports multiple data warehouses. It’s scaled well with us so far, and we’re looking to continue improving it, but we also want to step into new tooling and technologies.

What you’ll do: 

• End to end ownership of our database and data warehousing infrastructure, its KPIs and its SLAs, including MySQL, Postgres, CDC capture, and Redshift.
• Lead optimizations in database and query performance.
• ​​Build and maintain tooling to help manage and upgrade our data infrastructure, continually improving with migrations and optimizations.
• Partner with Development to ensure we ship solid queries against a battle-tested schema to meet the needs of our products and business.

• Help Sezzle evolve our data systems beyond the current scale and stack with whatever tooling is necessary to handle processing high volumes of writes and events while performing complex ETL.
• Evaluate and integrate new technologies, guiding the evolution of Sezzle’s data infrastructure.
• Help data engineers and analysts optimize Redshift and warehouse performance, including query tuning, modeling improvements, and cost management.

What We look for: 

• 12+ years of experience in DBA, SRE, or Data Engineering roles, with a strong track record of scaling production-grade systems.
• Deep expertise with MySQL, Postgres, AWS Redshift or similar products, including performance tuning, table design, and workload management.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL.
• Strong hands-on experience with data replication and ETL/ELT frameworks, especially DBT, AWS DMS, or similar tools.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, distributed systems, and warehouse/lake design patterns.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment with excellent communication and documentation skills.

Preferred Knowledge and Skills:

• Prior experience in high-growth, data-intensive fintech or similar regulated environments.
• Knowledge of lakehouse architectures and modern stacks such as Snowflake, Databricks, Iceberg, or Delta Lake.
• Some background in designing scalable, fault-tolerant data pipelines using modern orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, etc.) processing anywhere from 100GB to 1 TB of new data a day
• Familiarity with streaming technologies (Kafka, Kinesis, Flink, Spark Streaming).
• High enthusiasm for using AI to be as productive as possible.

About You: 

• You have relentlessly high standards - many people may think your standards are unreasonably high. You are continually raising the bar and driving those around you to deliver great results. You make sure that defects do not get sent down the line and that problems are fixed so they stay fixed.
• You’re not bound by convention - your success—and much of the fun—lies in developing new ways to do things
• You need action - speed matters in business. Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. We value calculated risk-taking.
• You earn trust - you listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully.
• You have backbone; disagree, then commit - you can respectfully challenge decisions when you disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. You have conviction and are tenacious. You do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Once a decision is determined, you commit wholly.
• You deliver results - you focus on the key inputs and deliver them with the right quality and in a timely fashion. Despite setbacks, you rise to the occasion and never settle.

Sezzle’s Technology Stack:

• Languages: Golang, Typescript, Python
• Frontend: Typescript - React and React Native
• Backend: Golang
• Database: MySQL, Postgres, Elasticsearch
• DevOps & Cloud: AWS, Kubernetes
• Version Control: Git
• CI/CD: Gitlab
• Testing: Developer and AI-driven, focus on automated end-to-end, integration, and unit tests
• Open Source: Sezzle is focused on using open source, and we build what we can before buying!

What Makes Working at Sezzle Awesome? 

At Sezzle, we are more than just brilliant engineers, passionate data enthusiasts, out-of-the-box thinkers, and determined innovators; we are skilled musicians, yogis, cyclists, chefs, golfers, dog-lovers, and rock-climbers. We believe in surrounding ourselves with not only the best and the brightest individuals, but those that are unique and purpose-driven in all that they do. Our culture is not defined by a certain set of perks designed to give the illusion of the traditional startup culture, but rather, it is the visible example living in every employee that we hire.

#Li-remote #full-time

Perfil: Desarrollador Cloud

Rol: Desarrollador

Nivel: STD – SR

Experiencia

Años de experiencia:

• 3 o más años de experiencia como Desarrollador/a Cloud (Multi‑Nube) con IA/ML y DevOps.

Escolaridad

• Licenciatura o Ingeniería en:
• Sistemas
• Computación
• Matemáticas
• Física
• Carrera afín
• (O experiencia equivalente comprobable)

Modalidad y Condiciones de Trabajo

• Modalidad de trabajo: Híbrido
• Días en oficina: 2 veces por semana
• Horario: Lunes a viernes, 9:00 a.m. a 6:00 p.m.
• Ubicación: CDMX
• Dirección de sede: Polanco / Reforma

Objetivo del Puesto

Diseñar, construir y operar aplicaciones y servicios escalables en entornos multi‑nube (AWS, GCP y/o Azure), integrando desarrollo backend, prácticas DevOps/MLOps e implementación de modelos de IA/ML en entornos productivos, asegurando calidad, seguridad, observabilidad y eficiencia operativa.

Certificaciones Recomendadas

Google Cloud Platform

• Google Professional Cloud Developer
• Google Professional Cloud Architect (deseable para perfil SR)
• Google Professional Machine Learning Engineer
• Google Associate Cloud Engineer

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• AWS Certified Developer – Associate
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
• AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty (altamente alineada a IA/ML)
• AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional (deseable para perfil SR)

Microsoft Azure

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate (AZ‑204)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate
• Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert

Machine Learning

• Google Professional Machine Learning Engineer
• AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty
• Azure Data Scientist Associate
• TensorFlow Developer Certificate
• IBM AI Engineering Professional Certificate

Idioma

• Inglés técnico (deseable)

Habilidades Blandas

• Trabajo en equipo
• Autogestión
• Perfil autodidacta
• Comunicación efectiva
• Resolución de problemas
• Adaptabilidad
• Proactividad
• Pensamiento analítico

Requisitos Técnicos

Versionador e Integrador de Código

• Git
• GitHub Actions / GitLab CI
• Cloud Build / Cloud Deploy (GCP)
• CodeBuild / CodePipeline (AWS)
• Azure DevOps Pipelines

Lenguajes de Programación

• Python
• Node.js
• TypeScript (deseable)
• SQL
• YAML (pipelines / Infraestructura como Código)

Sistemas Operativos

• Linux (principal)
• Windows
• macOS

Manejadores de Bases de Datos

• Cloud SQL
• Amazon RDS
• Azure SQL
• BigQuery
• Bases de datos relacionales y analíticas
• Almacenamiento de objetos:
• Amazon S3
• Google Cloud Storage
• Azure Blob Storage

Frameworks de Desarrollo

Backend

• Express
• Fastify (Node.js)

IA / ML

• scikit-learn
• TensorFlow / Keras
• PyTorch

NLP

• spaCy
• NLTK
• Hugging Face Transformers (deseable)

IDE

• Visual Studio Code
• IDEs compatibles con Python y Node.js

Herramientas

• Docker
• Kubernetes (GKE / EKS / AKS)
• Helm
• Terraform
• MLflow / DVC
• Postman (pruebas de APIs)
• Prometheus / Grafana
• OpenTelemetry

Plataformas Cloud

• Google Cloud Platform (principal)
• Amazon Web Services (deseable)
• Microsoft Azure (deseable)

Asistentes de IA

• No especificados explícitamente
• (Uso implícito de frameworks y plataformas de IA/ML)

Conocimiento del Negocio

Marcos o Metodologías de Trabajo

• Metodología Ágil
• Scrum

Herramientas para Seguimiento y Control de Proyectos

• Gestión de backlog (herramientas ágiles no especificadas)
• Métricas ágiles:
• Velocity
• Lead Time
• Tableros de observabilidad
• Definición y seguimiento de SLO / SLI

Esquema de Trabajo

• Asignación a proyectos
• Desarrollo y operación de productos digitales
• (No esquema de fábrica de software)

Tipo de Asignación

• Proyectos
• Operación
• Soporte productivo
• Mejora continua

Tipo de Proyecto

• Ágil

Industria

• Banca / Servicios Financieros

Tecnología

• Cloud Computing
• Inteligencia Artificial / Data

The Opportunity

This is a senior technical client leadership role that blends deep hands-on ML expertise with strategic advisory and consulting skills. You will be the most experienced ML voice across a diverse and expanding book of customer engagements — from early-stage companies bringing ambitious ML ideas to market, to established enterprises modernizing how they build and operate AI systems on AWS.

You will shape strategy, influence architecture, and leave every team you touch better than you found it. You bring the scientific depth to design and evaluate models rigorously, the engineering depth to architect production ML systems at scale, and the consulting instincts to translate both into business value for customers.

If you have led the hard conversations, shaped the architecture decisions that mattered, and built the things others benchmark against — and you are looking to do that across a growing portfolio of varied and interesting customers — this is the role for you.

What You'll Do

• Lead end-to-end ML assessments across infrastructure, data pipelines, model lifecycle, and organizational readiness — producing recommendations that drive executive decision-making and earn Caylent the next engagement.
• Partner with sales and solutions teams through the proposal and scoping phase, contributing the technical depth needed to shape well-grounded statements of work.
• Serve as the senior technical authority on client engagements — possibly across multiple projects simultaneously — providing architectural guidance, ensuring technical quality from your project team members, and getting hands-on when the engagement demands it, without owning day-to-day implementation responsibilities.
• Own or orchestrate high-quality POCs that give customers confidence before committing to a larger initiative.
• Advise customers on ML operations standards and architecture — covering MLOps pipeline design, model lifecycle management, LLMOps patterns, and production monitoring frameworks — translating operational complexity into decisions and guardrails their teams can own and sustain.
• Shape how Caylent wins its most technically complex opportunities — contributing the architectural thinking and credibility that turns prospects into customers.
• Strengthen the ML practice from the inside — through peer guidance, technical interviews, and contributions to accelerators, reference architectures, and thought leadership content.

What You Bring

The non-negotiables

• 10+ years in machine learning or AI, with a proven track record of leading client-facing engagements in a consulting or advisory capacity.
• Deep, current knowledge of the AWS ML and GenAI ecosystem, with the ability to make and defend architectural decisions across the full ML lifecycle — from data and feature engineering through training, deployment, and monitoring.
• Deep expertise in at least two or three ML domains — whether traditional ML, computer vision, NLP, time series, or others — combined with the judgment to assess, architect, and advise across the broader ML landscape.
• Proven ability to architect and govern production ML systems end-to-end, translating MLOps, LLMOps, and broader AI operations complexity into standards and decisions that engineering teams can execute and executives can act on.
• Deep expertise across foundation model adaptation — fine-tuning (LoRA, QLoRA, PEFT), alignment (RLHF, DPO), inference optimization (quantization, vLLM), and distributed training (DeepSpeed, FSDP) — combined with RAG and agentic system design, including multi-agent architectures, event-driven workflows, MCP integration, and human-in-the-loop patterns on AWS. Technical authority to prescribe the right approach and set architectural standards that teams can execute against.
• Proven ability to operate independently in complex customer environments — navigating ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and translating ML tradeoffs into business risk and value for both technical and executive audiences.

Strong differentiators

• AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty and/or AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional.
• Experience shaping practice-level standards, reference architectures, and reusable ML accelerators across multiple engagements.
• Exposure to varied industries and problem types in a consulting or client-facing context.
• Deep fluency in responsible AI practices — model evaluation, bias detection, fairness frameworks, and AI governance — applied in enterprise deployments.
• Hands-on experience designing and deploying SRE agents and AI-driven operations workflows in production — spanning automated incident detection, triage, and remediation — with the ability to integrate across observability platforms and translate AI operations outcomes into measurable business value.

Technical Stack

Our practice spans a broad range of ML domains. Candidates are expected to prescribe — not just recognize — with the judgment to maximize what AWS makes possible and the experience to know how open-source tooling strengthens it.

ML Domains: Classical ML, Computer Vision, NLP, Generative AI & LLMs, AI Agents & Autonomous Systems, Intelligent Document Processing, Video Understanding, Speech & Audio, Time Series & Forecasting, Recommender Systems, Graph ML, Reinforcement Learning, Multimodal AI

AWS ML Platform: SageMaker, SageMaker Pipelines, SageMaker Feature Store, SageMaker Model Registry, SageMaker Clarify, Bedrock (Agents, Knowledge Bases, Guardrails, AgentCore, Model Evaluation)

Multi-provider LLM: Bedrock, Anthropic API, OpenAI API, Google Gemini API, Azure OpenAI — with the judgment to reason across provider tradeoffs in enterprise contexts

AWS AI Services: Rekognition, Comprehend, Transcribe, Textract, Translate, Personalize, Neptune, Kinesis Video Streams, Polly

Data Platform: Apache Spark / PySpark, Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, Apache Hudi, AWS Glue

Vector Databases: Pinecone, pgvector, Amazon OpenSearch (vector), Weaviate

Frameworks: PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, HuggingFace (Transformers, PEFT, TRL), LangChain, LlamaIndex, DSPy, Ollama

MLOps & Governance: MLflow, W&B, Airflow / MWAA (data orchestration), Dagster (asset-based pipelines), Kubeflow Pipelines, CI/CD, IaC (CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform), Docker, Kubernetes, ML Governance (lineage, data contracts, audit), Responsible AI / Bias & Fairness

LLM Evaluation & Safety: RAGAS, LLM-as-judge patterns, DeepEval, NeMo Guardrails, Constitutional AI patterns, structured output validation

Inference & Optimization: Triton, vLLM, SGLang, Trainium, Inferentia, Quantization (GPTQ, AWQ, bitsandbytes), SageMaker Neo

Benefits

STAFF FULL STACK ENGINEER (Contract)

Location: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Spain, Peru

Job Description

Counterpart is an insurtech platform reimagining management and professional liability for the modern workplace. We believe that when businesses lead with clarity and confidence, they become more resilient, more innovative, and better prepared for what's ahead. That's why we built the first Agentic Insurance™ system — where advanced AI and deep insurance expertise come together to proactively assess, mitigate, and manage risk. Backed by A rated carriers and trusted by brokers nationwide, our platform helps small businesses grow with confidence. Join us in shaping a smarter future, helping businesses Do More With Less Risk®.

As a Staff Full Stack Software Engineer, you will be a prolific cross-functional contributor who leverages AI throughout your development workflow to demonstrate business and product awareness. You must bridge the gap between Product, Insurance, Data and AI to build a platform that feels like a single seamless experience. You're a go getter, love learning, use AI to think bigger and ship faster, and are a wonderful person to work with. You exemplify thoughtful action of what it means to be a great engineer and a presence the organization can rely on.

OUR AI-ENABLED CULTURE

At Counterpart, AI isn't a nice-to-have—it's how we work. We expect our engineers to leverage AI tools throughout their entire workflow: from problem analysis and architecture design, to code generation, testing, and documentation. If you're still writing most code by hand or treating AI as just an autocomplete tool, this role isn't the right fit. We're looking for engineers who use AI to think bigger, ship faster, and maintain higher quality standards.

What this means in practice:

• You use AI to explore solution spaces before writing a single line of code
• You leverage AI to generate a significant amount of your code while you focus on architecture, review, and problem-solving
• You've experienced significant productivity gains through AI-assisted development without compromising quality
• You treat AI coding assistants as essential tools, like your IDE or version control

YOU WILL

Below are some key projects we are working on. You will be a part of one or more of these objectives:

• Modernize insurance application workflows. We are enhancing our Django system to update and automate workflows for our Risk Engineering team. You will use AI-assisted development to rapidly iterate on key UI components and backend enhancements, delivering the best user experience possible at unprecedented velocity.
• Enhance productivity with AI. Collaborate with the Data and Risk Engineering teams to integrate AI into every part of our workflow. Create an AI platform to enhance adoption of agents. Wrangle data from docs, email, the web, and more into insightful, data driven actions. This isn't just about building AI features—you'll be using AI tools daily to accelerate your own delivery and collaborate more effectively.
• Enable small businesses to manage HR with modern software. Enhance our HR application to support its next phase of growth using AI-powered development to move faster than traditional development cycles.
• Emerging Products. Create new services to enable our Claims team to process a larger volume of complex claims across many different insurance lines. Use AI to rapidly prototype and iterate on solutions.
• Dev experience first. Work with engineering leaders to create an amazing remote dev experience. Establish AI-enabled development standards: how we use AI for code review, architecture decisions, test generation, and documentation. Define how we balance AI assistance with engineering judgment. This will have a huge impact on scaling with sustainable growth and workplace happiness.

YOU HAVE

AI-First Development Skills:

• Demonstrated proficiency using AI coding assistants (Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, etc.) as core development tools, not just productivity aids
• Experience using AI for system design and architecture decisions, including prompt engineering for complex technical problems
• You utilize AI as a force multiplier to achieve development velocity and output levels that far exceed traditional manual coding standards
• Comfort with AI-first workflows: You regularly use AI for ideation, code review, debugging, test generation, and documentation

Technical Experience:

• Experience building and maintaining a service platform for human and programmatic users using AI-assisted development to accelerate delivery
• Lead, written, and executed product and technical design specifications
• 5+ years of experience with Python
• 2+ years of experience with Django
• 2+ years of experience with relational databases (we use PostgreSQL)
• 2+ years of experience with Typescript
• Experience working on a remote team

Who You Will Work With

• Derrick Franco, Principal Engineer: After teaching himself to code at 13, Derrick went on to co-found Jumpstart in addition to building out the technical divisions at InvestorsAlley and Phinaz Media Group. Nowadays Derrick spends his time reading, with his wife, and working on his podcast The Future of Work Project.
• Julian Prokay, Principal Engineer: A veteran of the SaaS space with experience working on both student systems and construction management software. In his free time, he enjoys history podcasts and fantasy literature.
• Ron Alexessen, Engineering Manager: With experience at Hewlett-Packard, New Relic, Rackspace, and consulting agencies, Ron has built teams and shaped technical culture across different environments. He's passionate about AI-enabled development as a force multiplier and building solutions that create real business impact. Outside work, he boulders, runs, rides gravel bikes, and co-parents active teenagers—embracing structured chaos in all of it.
• Newton Troung, Engineering Manager: Newton joins Counterpart with 7+ years of experience in platform and data engineering. In his last company Thrive Market, he had a hand in building out new microservices and architecting data pipelines with Airflow and Spark. He's vegetarian and loves trying new restaurants when traveling. Nowadays he's busy keeping up with his 2-year-old and doing outdoor activities with his family.
• John Mendez, Engineering Manager: John has experience working at companies of all sizes. He enjoys startups and small-to-medium businesses, where he can wear multiple hats and help deliver solutions. Outside of work, he stays busy with his four kids and their activities. He also makes time to stay active by working out at home and running or walking with his dog.

COUNTERPART'S VALUES

• Conjoin Expectations - it is the cornerstone of autonomy. Ensure you are aware of what is expected of you and clearly articulate what you expect of others.
• Speak Boldly & Honestly - the only failure is not learning from mistakes. Don't cheat yourself and your colleagues of the feedback needed when expectations aren't being met.
• Be Entrepreneurial - control your own destiny. Embrace action over perfection while navigating any obstacles that stand in the way of your ultimate goal. Leverage AI ruthlessly—we measure success by outcomes, not lines of code written. Use every available AI tool to ship faster and think more strategically.
• Practice Omotenashi ("selfless hospitality") - trust will follow. Consider every interaction with internal and external partners an opportunity to develop trust by going above and beyond what is expected.
• Hold Nothing As Sacred - create routines but modify them routinely. Take the time to reflect on where the business is today, where it needs to go, and what you have to change in order to get there.
• Prioritize Wellness - some things should never be sacrificed. We create an environment that stretches everyone to grow and improve, which is fulfilling, but is only one part of a meaningful life.

WE OFFER

1. Work from Anywhere - Counterpart is a fully distributed company, meaning there is no office. We allow employees to work from wherever they do their best work, of course prioritizing meetings that often happen in US time zones.
2. Language Classes - We sponsor up to $100 per calendar year to be used towards language classes to help support your English language skills.
3. Paid Vacation and Time Off
4. Parental Leave - Development Partners will be eligible for unpaid Parental Leave to bond with a newborn, newly-adopted, or newly placed child. Under this policy, development partners and independent contractors will be eligible for up to 8 weeks of unpaid parental leave. Any time off will be subject to approval and must be requested at least 45 days in advance.
5. Computer - We reimburse you for your locally procured Macbook Pro. If you are still with the company after one year, it is yours to keep!

Our estimated pay range for this role is USD $90,000 - $110,000 annually. Contractor compensation is determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to, market data, location, internal equitability, and experience.

We are committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate against qualified applicants or employees on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual preference, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, rule, or regulation.

About the Role:

Rumble Cloud is seeking a Principal Database Architect to own the architecture, technical direction, and successful delivery of our Database as a Service (DBaaS) offering within our public cloud platform. This role will take over a product already in active development and guide it through hardening, integration, launch, and global scale-out. You will be responsible for shaping the long-term technical roadmap of the service, ensuring it is secure, reliable, performant, and operable at scale for customers worldwide. You will work closely with our development team, engineering team, and early adopter customers to refine the design, drive high-quality implementation, and build the patterns and practices that future engineers will follow.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the end-to-end architecture of the DBaaS product, including multitenancy, high availability, disaster recovery, backup/restore, observability, and security.
• Review and influence existing epics, stories, and technical designs, identifying gaps and driving improvements.
• Define and maintain architectural standards and patterns for databases across our public cloud (provisioning, configuration, lifecycle management, monitoring, security).
• Work closely with platform, networking, and security teams to integrate DBaaS into our cloud infrastructure, including identity, networking, billing, self-service, and automation.
• Collaborate with Product Management to align technical roadmap with product vision, SLAs/SLOs, and customer requirements.
• Serve as the highest-level technical escalation point for DBaaS-related issues in development, staging, and production environments.
• Support onboarding and success of early “friendly” customers: assist with deployments, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and architecture guidance.
• Define and evolve operational runbooks, incident response patterns, and SRE practices for the DBaaS platform.
• Mentor and coach other engineers and architects as we build an internal team around the service, raising the overall bar for database and data platform expertise.
• Establish and enforce security, compliance, and data protection best practices for the DBaaS offering (encryption, access control, auditing, regulatory considerations).
• Participate in capacity planning and cost optimization, ensuring the service is economically viable at scale.
• Conduct periodic architecture reviews and post-incident reviews, driving continuous improvement in reliability and customer experience.
• Support and advise internal teams on the operation, performance, and troubleshooting of existing database clusters, in addition to primary ownership of the DBaaS platform.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Expert-level experience in database engineering, data platforms, or infrastructure, with significant ownership of production database systems or services.
• Deep expertise with at least one major relational database engine (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, or similar), including replication, backup/restore, performance tuning, and operational best practices.
• Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts, including compute, networking, storage, and security in public cloud or large private cloud environments.
• Experience integrating databases or DBaaS-like offerings with cloud control planes, APIs, and automation/orchestration systems.
• Strong background in reliability engineering for data services (monitoring, alerting, SLOs, incident management, capacity planning).
• Familiarity with security and compliance requirements for database services (encryption at rest/in transit, access control, auditing, data retention, regulatory considerations).
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, or similar) and comfort working with CI/CD pipelines.
• Scripting or programming skills (e.g., Python, Go, Bash or similar) for automation, tooling, and integration.
• Proven track record of technical leadership: influencing designs across teams, mentoring engineers, and making clear trade-off decisions.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with external vendors, internal stakeholders, and customers.

Nice to Have (Preferred Skills):

• Strong, hands-on expertise with both MySQL and PostgreSQL databases.
• Experience designing or operating multi-tenant, high-availability, and distributed database architectures in a cloud or large-scale environment.
• Experience designing or operating a DBaaS offering (e.g., Amazon RDS/Aurora, Azure Database, Cloud SQL, or similar managed services).
• Knowledge of NoSQL or specialized data stores (e.g., Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra) and when to apply them.
• Experience in Kubernetes-based data workloads, operators, or stateful services.
• Familiarity with multi-region architectures, data residency, and geo-replication patterns.
• Exposure to observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, OpenTelemetry) for data services.
• Relevant certifications in databases, cloud architecture, or security are a plus.

Qualifications:

• Demonstrated success owning the architecture and technical direction of a mission-critical platform or service.
• Strong customer empathy and a track record of working directly with users or customers to solve complex technical problems.
• Ability to operate at both strategic and hands-on levels, from roadmap and design reviews down to debugging complex production issues.

Annual Compensation Range: 

$185,000 -  $265,000 USD base + benefits + equity (If based in the United States)

$170,000 -  $200,000 USD base + benefits + equity (If based in Canada)

Note: The salary range listed for this position is a good faith estimate based on experience, qualifications, and internal compensation structure. The actual salary offered varies depending on the candidate's skill level and experience. This posting refers to an active vacancy within the organization.