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Principal Engineer (Software Engineering/Devops)
GRIP · United Kingdom · Remote
United KingdomRemote
Remuneration
Competitive salary, equity, and benefits
Location
United Kingdom · Remote
British Summer Time (UTC+1)
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Principal Software Engineer will own product features for an event engagement platform while helping shape infrastructure and engineering practices across the wider platform. The role spans full-stack development and DevOps, including AI-powered event engagement, AWS services, CI/CD pipelines, observability, security, reliability, and modernization of legacy systems. The technology stack includes JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, Python, React Native, Kubernetes, Terraform, and tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Sentry.
Benefits
Equity25 days of annual leaveSabbatical leave opportunitiesTraining and professional development budgetGroup life insuranceCompany health plan
Qualifications
- Strong experience in software engineering and DevOps.
Responsibilities
- Own product features from planning through delivery using agile methods, feature flags, testing, and observability.
- Collaborate with product teams to refine plans and identify risks and opportunities.
- Deliver secure, high-performance features across the technology stack.
- Prepare technical proposals, specifications, test reports, and release plans.
- Guide squad-level technical direction, architectural consistency, code quality, and engineering practices.
- Collaborate on AWS infrastructure, including EKS, ECS, EC2, Lambda, CloudFront, and S3.
- Design and improve CI/CD pipelines, progressive delivery, and automated rollback workflows.
- Standardize delivery practices across engineering squads.
- Improve reliability monitoring and early incident detection and resolution.
- Extend observability coverage using Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, and Datadog.
- Improve platform security through vulnerability scanning, penetration testing coordination, and standards enforcement.
- Contribute to shared architectural standards, libraries, and internal tooling.
- Lead gradual modernization and consolidation of legacy systems while maintaining delivery.
Skills
AWSCloudFrontDatadogECSEKSGitHubGitHub ActionsGrafanaJavaScriptJenkinsKubernetesAWS LambdaMongoDBMySQLNode.jsOpenSearchPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonRedshiftS3SentryTerraformTypeScript
Industry
Event technologyEvent engagement
Relocation
No