Hybrid Principal Engineer, Automations

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About the role

  • Principal Engineer responsible for architecting automation systems at 360 Privacy, enhancing digital security through innovative solutions. Collaborating on complex projects and leading technical design efforts.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and own large-scale, Python-based automation systems
  • Design event-driven, distributed automation pipelines that coordinate scraping, data processing, and downstream actions
  • Lead the design and evolution of web scraping systems operating in adversarial conditions
  • Build and refine bot detection avoidance strategies
  • Own workflow orchestration using Prefect to manage long-running, failure-tolerant workflows
  • Design systems with strong guarantees around idempotency, retries, partial-state recovery, and backoff
  • Partner with Product, Security, and Data teams to translate ambiguous requirements
  • Establish patterns and standards for observability, alerting, and operational hygiene
  • Mentor senior engineers and influence platform direction through design reviews
  • Make principled decisions about when automation is inappropriate

Requirements

  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • 5+ years of hands-on Python as your primary language in production systems
  • Demonstrated ownership of long-lived automation or platform systems operating at scale
  • Strong experience with distributed systems and event-driven architectures
  • Experience operating systems in AWS and/or GCP environments
  • Demonstrated technical mentorship or platform leadership, regardless of title
  • U.S. residency required
  • Advanced proficiency in English to effectively communicate complex information

Benefits

  • Digital privacy protection for you and your family
  • Learning and conference opportunities (Black Hat, DEF CON, etc.)

Job title

Principal Engineer, Automations

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$190,000 - $240,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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