Principal Generalist Engineer
Moniepoint17 days ago
Remote, South AfricaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and build reliable, scalable, observable production systems.
- Own problems end to end across problem definition, design, data, implementation, deployment, and operations.
- Work across application services, distributed systems, infrastructure, data pipelines, and ML systems.
- Debug complex production issues across multiple system layers.
- Improve performance, latency, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Contribute to architecture and technical direction while writing maintainable code and documentation.
- Train, evaluate, iterate on, deploy, and monitor machine learning models and their pipelines.
- Raise engineering standards and apply ML only where it is appropriate.
Requirements
- Strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures and algorithms, operating systems, networking, and distributed systems.
- Solid probability and statistics knowledge.
- Experience building production systems at scale.
- Ability to work across Go, Java, Python, Rust, and SQL.
- Understanding of system behavior under load and failure.
- Comfort with Linux, containers, and Kubernetes.
- Strong debugging skills and ability to reason using invariants and failure modes.
- Knowledge of data systems, streaming systems, ML infrastructure, and performance optimization.
- Strong ownership, clear communication, sound technical judgment, and first-principles problem solving.
Benefits
- Attractive salary, pension, health insurance, paid leave, and other benefits.
- Learning and development environment with knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks.
- Remote role, indicated by the #LI-Remote designation.
- Inclusive culture that prioritizes employee well-being and values diverse perspectives.
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