Principal Engineer

Role OverviewThe Principal Engineer will work with the Delivery team to modernize the core of Kevel's main revenue stream - ad serving. This involves improving reliability and robustness, while developing new features to gain new customers. The team operates globally with strict latency and availability requirements.What You Will DoThe Principal Engineer will evolve the ad decision pipeline, improve the platform's architectural qualities, work closely with the product management team, and provide operational oversight for the platform.Why It Might Be a FitThe Principal Engineer will bring experience building and operating distributed systems in a cloud environment, strong programming experience in a production backend language, and experience designing or maintaining latency-sensitive systems.RequirementsExperience building and operating distributed systems in a cloud environmentStrong programming experience in a production backend languageExperience designing or maintaining latency-sensitive systems with tight response-time requirementsExperience with HTTP-based APIs and production service integrationsExperience working with databases, including transactional data modelsBenefits100% employer-paid medical benefitsRetirement savings plans with employer contributionsUnlimited personal time offPaid Holidays + a Kevel Holiday BreakHome office stipendParental leave supportFree press benefitsOriginally posted on Himalayas