Principal Engineer

Safeguard Global is hiring a Principal Engineer for a fully remote role, working with a distributed team. The role involves guiding architecture, influencing design, and unblocking complex problems across multiple domains.

Requirements

• Define and drive the architecture of scalable, event-driven systems on AWS
• Lead the design and evolution of core platform services and distributed systems
• Set technical direction across teams, ensuring consistency and long-term maintainability
• Solve complex, cross-cutting engineering problems
• Establish best practices for reliability, observability, and performance across the platform
• Design systems that handle high event throughput, failure scenarios, and eventual consistency at scale
• Partner closely with Data Engineering to shape data architecture, pipelines, and platform capabilities
• Influence and improve engineering standards, tooling, and ways of working
• Mentor senior engineers and act as a technical leader across multiple teams
• Contribute to strategic technical decisions and roadmap planning

Benefits

• Generous leave
• Make a difference (2 paid charitable days off)
• Corporate bonus/SIP
• International environment
• Human centered culture
• Learning (2 learning platforms)