Synthesia

Principal/Staff Software Engineer

Synthesia
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9 days ago

Base Salary

$200k - $200k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate secure, reliable, scalable enterprise platform systems.
  • Contribute to APIs that make Synthesia’s Avatar technology available to external creative tools.
  • Own multi-month projects spanning multiple teams and break ambiguous problems into iterative deliverables.
  • Translate business, security, regulatory, and compliance requirements into scalable technical solutions.
  • Use observability, monitoring, system health metrics, and reliability practices to evaluate and improve production systems.
  • Partner with product, security, legal, and infrastructure teams and drive technical initiatives end to end.
  • Contribute to product discussions with user and business considerations in mind.
  • Lead projects and mentor engineers when appropriate.

Requirements

  • At least seven years of software engineering experience, including experience operating at a senior or staff level.
  • Experience building and operating systems at scale, ideally on platform or enterprise-focused teams.
  • Strong development and system-design expertise; experience across the stack is a plus.
  • Experience with enterprise-grade systems, including areas such as security, compliance, data handling, access control, multi-tenant systems, or platform services.
  • Experience owning production systems, including observability, incident response, and reliability improvements.
  • Ability to work across teams and functions, align stakeholders, and drive technical initiatives end to end.
  • Strong alignment with building reliable, scalable systems supporting long-term product and business goals.
  • Previous project leadership or engineering mentorship experience is a plus.

Benefits

  • Full-time employment through Synthesia’s US entity; contractors are not accepted.
  • Base salary starts at USD 200,000 plus a stock option plan.
  • 25 days of leave plus local holidays; no additional paid or unpaid leave is available.

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About Synthesia

501-1,000 employees
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