Hybrid Principal Engineer

at 360 Privacy

• Job title: Principal Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $190,000 - $240,000 per year
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Brentwood, United States

About the role

• Principal Engineer guiding technical direction for core backend systems in a leading SaaS company focusing on digital privacy. Collaborating with teams to ensure system stability, security, and performance.

Responsibilities

• Own backend architecture across core services, including APIs and data access layers.
• Define and uphold standards for API design, system boundaries, and data modeling.
• Lead the design and implementation of complex backend initiatives from concept through production.
• Own and evolve cross-cutting backend concerns such as authorization, tenant isolation, idempotency, request governance, and secure data access patterns.
• Drive system quality by improving evolvability, operational confidence, and long-term maintainability.
• Make and document high-impact architectural decisions, including explicit trade-offs and risk assessments.
• Collaborate closely with engineers and cross-functional partners to align on design, constraints, and long-term direction.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, architectural guidance, and clear technical feedback.
• Partner with engineering leadership on long-term technical strategy and technology investment decisions.
• Participate in on-call rotation approximately once every two months and translate operational learnings into system improvements.

Requirements

• 8+ years of backend engineering experience, including ownership of production systems at scale.
• Proven experience designing backend APIs and services that are intentionally difficult to misuse.
• Strong data modeling skills and experience building multi-tenant systems with clear tenant isolation.
• Demonstrated ownership of architectural decisions with measurable impact on system stability and delivery.
• Ability to lead technical work through written design documents, diagrams, and decision records.
• Comfort operating under ambiguity and making decisions that meaningfully constrain future options.
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to influence through clarity rather than force.
• Clear, direct communication style with a focus on shared understanding.
• Advanced proficiency in English to effectively communicate complex information with team members and stakeholders, and to complete job-related documentation and collaboration tasks.