Masabi

Principal Engineer - Platform & Data

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3 months ago
Bucharest, RomaniaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Shape Masabi’s platform architecture, including platform blueprints, standards, and best practices.
  • Shape data architecture and strategy for structuring, storing, and using platform-generated data.
  • Design and deliver scalable, robust, and cost-efficient services.
  • Remain hands-on through coding, technical design, code reviews, and targeted contributions.
  • Address complex platform challenges involving scalability, performance, resilience, and cost.
  • Advise and influence engineering teams on technical decisions and standards.
  • Contribute to technical roadmap planning, prioritization, architecture governance, forums, and working groups.
  • Support RFP estimation and technical scoping for complex initiatives.
  • Produce technical documentation and architecture artifacts for technical and non-technical audiences.

Requirements

  • Strong experience designing and evolving distributed systems and microservices architectures.
  • Experience operating at Principal or Staff level and shaping technical direction across multiple teams or domains.
  • Ability to contribute hands-on to code, design, and delivery.
  • Strong experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, and modern infrastructure practices.
  • Experience making scale, reliability, performance, and cost trade-offs.
  • Proven experience in data architecture, including data platforms, pipelines, warehousing, data lakes, or products built on large data stores.
  • Ability to turn loosely defined business or technical problems into clear, actionable technical approaches.
  • Experience contributing to engineering standards, architecture patterns, or platform direction.
  • Strong experience with REST API design in complex, multi-service environments, ideally including front-end API consumption.
  • Interest in or exposure to AI-enabled systems and their production architecture implications.
  • Nice-to-have experience decomposing monoliths into microservices, working with event-driven architectures and Kafka, improving cloud cost and efficiency at scale, and using Kotlin, Java, DynamoDB, MySQL, Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Terraform, and GitLab CI/CD.

Benefits

  • Fully remote work for candidates based in Romania.
  • 25 days of annual holiday plus a Christmas shutdown of another 3–4 days.
  • Premium medical care through Regina Maria, mental health support, and menopause support.
  • Regular social gatherings with a monthly employee allowance.
  • Up to €1000 annual training budget.
  • €200 home-office allowance and a choice of workstation.
  • Ability to work from any country in the world for up to 3 months per year.

Tech Stack

Amazon DynamoDBApache KafkaApache SparkAWSDatabricksGitLab CI/CDJavaKotlinMySQLSnowflakeTerraform

Categories

BackendData EngineeringDevOps
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About Masabi

201-500 employees
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