Principal Engineer - Platform & Data
Masabi· Engineering
RemoteFull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Senior technical leader responsible for shaping Masabi’s platform and data architectures, with hands-on contribution and cross-team influence, focusing on scalable, cost-efficient services and robust data infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Shape Masabi’s platform architecture, including platform blueprint definition, standards and best practices
- Help shape Masabi's data architecture and strategy, including how we structure, store and make use of the data generated across our platform
- Design and deliver scalable, robust, cost efficient services aligned with platform blueprint
- Stay hands-on in code and technical delivery, including reviews and targeted contributions
- Identify and work through complex platform challenges related to scalability, performance, resilience and cost
- Act as a senior technical advisor across engineering teams, supporting and influencing technical decisions and ensuring Masabi standards are followed
- Shape and contribute to technical roadmap planning and prioritisation of platform improvements
- Support RFP estimation and technical scoping for complex initiatives
- Produce clear, high-quality technical documentation and architecture artefacts
- Improve how architecture is understood and applied across engineering and the wider business
- Contribute to and help shape technical forums and working groups, including areas such as API and architecture governance
Qualifications
- Strong experience designing and evolving distributed systems and microservices architectures
- Operated at Principal or Staff level, shaping technical direction across multiple teams or domains
- Comfortable staying hands-on, contributing in code, design and delivery when needed
- Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and modern infrastructure practices
- Worked on systems where scale, reliability, performance and cost trade-offs matter
- Proven experience in data architecture (data platforms, pipelines, warehousing or data lakes) and products built on top of large data stores
- Ability to turn loosely defined problems into clear, actionable technical approaches
- Clear communication and structured documentation for technical and non-technical audiences
- Contributed to engineering standards, architecture patterns or platform direction
- Strong experience with REST API design in complex, multi-service environments
- Interest in or exposure to AI-enabled systems, particularly production architecture implications
Skills
Required:Distributed systems designHands-on codingCloud platforms (AWS preferred)Data architecture (data platforms, pipelines, warehousing or data lakes)REST API design in multi-service environments
Benefits
- 20 days of vacation per year (plus 28+ days including Christmas shutdown)
- Private Healthcare and Life Insurance
- Menopause support
- Choice of a workstation
- Training allowance up to CAD$1300 per year
- CAD$325 per year for home office
- $50 CAD per month for team building activities
- Ability to work up to 3 months per year from any country in the world
- Enhanced family leave
Last updated Oct 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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