SGS

Principal Engineer

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16 days ago
Madrid, SpainStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Architect and personally build critical customer-facing product surfaces across frontend and backend.
  • Make technical decisions across frontend, backend, cloud infrastructure, and platform systems, writing code at every layer as needed.
  • Shape the platform, including CI/CD, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and observability, to improve engineering velocity and safety.
  • Turn successful patterns into shared components, reusable services, architectural standards, design-system capabilities, and platform building blocks.
  • Mentor senior engineers, lead architecture discussions, and remove friction that slows engineering teams.
  • Partner with Product and Design to deliver high-quality user interfaces.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience with strong backgrounds in product engineering and platform/SRE work.
  • Expert-level experience with React and TypeScript for frontend development.
  • Deep experience building distributed backends in Go, Python, or TypeScript.
  • Architectural-level hands-on experience with a major cloud provider such as GCP or AWS and Terraform.
  • Strong knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines built with GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
  • A proven track record designing scalable, resilient, observable, distributed cloud-native systems.
  • Practical experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, and scalable testing strategies.
  • Strong product sensibility and experience collaborating with Product and Design.
  • Hands-on builder mindset with the ability to lead architecture and mentor senior engineers.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and benefits package.
  • Collaborative, inclusive, open, friendly, and supportive work environment.
  • Opportunities for professional growth, development, learning, and expanding expertise.

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About SGS

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