Principal Engineer (Python)

Location: Remote in Brazil

Company

Building an all-in-one platform that helps small businesses grow online through hosting, performance, smart tools, and human support.

What you will do

• Set technical direction and architecture standards for backend and infrastructure systems across the Hosting organization.
• Design and evolve large-scale Python backend services on Linux with MySQL at production scale.
• Modernize Perl-based and cPanel-integrated systems without disrupting live customer sites or provisioning automation.
• Drive site reliability engineering practices, incident response, system hardening, and root-cause analysis for critical production issues.
• Define and measure organization-wide standards for AI-augmented delivery, including code review, provenance, licensing, and customer-data handling.
• Mentor senior and staff engineers and shape multi-quarter technical roadmaps with engineering leadership.

Requirements

• 10+ years of backend or infrastructure engineering experience, including deep hosting-platform expertise.
• Expert-level Python and Linux knowledge in production-scale systems.
• Strong MySQL expertise covering performance tuning, schema design, and large-scale troubleshooting.
• Deep hands-on experience with Perl and cPanel, including modernization of legacy systems.
• Experience with site reliability engineering, systemic resilience, fault isolation, and operational governance is preferred.
• Proven technical leadership, mentoring, cross-team influence, and experience operating in complex customer-facing SaaS environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Work-life balance and a culture of belonging supported by 20+ employee affinity groups.
• Meal or food voucher worth R$44.55 per working day.
• Health and dental insurance with no employee co-pay, plus life insurance.
• Well-being benefits including Gympass, online meditation, telemedicine, and pet health insurance access.
• Access to undergraduate and graduate education, language courses, and more than 100 educational institutions.
• Mentorship, new challenges, free website hosting, and career development opportunities.