Remote Principal Python Engineer

Description:

• Teramind is the leading platform for user behavior analytics, serving multiple use cases from insider risk mitigation to business process optimization.
• The company provides a comprehensive suite of solutions that enhance security, optimize productivity, and ensure compliance for organizations.
• Teramind is trusted by Fortune 500 companies and businesses of all sizes across various industries.
• The platform helps organizations protect sensitive data, maximize workforce performance, and create safer, more efficient digital workplaces.
• The role involves scaling the data platform to accommodate growth from 10,000 to 100,000 customers without compromising performance or budget.
• The position focuses on making massive amounts of data queryable in under 2 seconds, utilizing Python as the primary programming language.
• Responsibilities include architecting systems for growth, improving engineer productivity, building self-healing systems, and developing analytics solutions.
• The technical environment includes Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redis, Docker, and cloud infrastructure.
• The company values developer productivity and fast iteration cycles, and the team is global and distributed.

Requirements:

• Candidates should have experience in architecting systems that can handle significant growth without increased complexity.
• The ability to enhance the effectiveness of engineering teams through better tools and patterns is essential.
• Experience in building systems that can self-heal is required.
• Candidates must be able to translate business needs for better analytics into practical solutions.
• Familiarity with selecting databases, frameworks, or approaches and the ability to teach others is necessary.
• Problem-solving skills are crucial, particularly in addressing issues like query timeouts, prolonged data migrations, integration failures, and compliance challenges.
• A commitment to shipping code, simplifying complex problems, teaching through code reviews, and taking ownership of issues is expected.

Benefits:

• This is a remote job, allowing employees to work from anywhere, with a fully-remote team since 2014.
• Employees enjoy flexibility and the benefits of diverse, global teams.
• Collaboration with a forward-thinking team where new ideas are encouraged and valued.
• Competitive salary and career growth opportunities are provided.
• Flexible paid time off is available to support work-life balance.
• Laptop reimbursement is offered to facilitate remote work.
• Ongoing training and development opportunities are provided to enhance skills and career progression.