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Synthesia

Principal Staff Software Engineer

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Description

You will build core enterprise platform systems and APIs for external creative tools. You will own multi-month, cross-team projects, turn ambiguous problems into iterative delivery plans, and translate business and regulatory requirements into scalable solutions. You will use system-health, reliability, observability, and monitoring metrics to evaluate and improve production systems.

Responsibilities

  • Build secure, reliable, and scalable enterprise platform systems
  • Contribute to APIs for external creative tools
  • Own cross-team projects spanning multiple months
  • Break down complex problems into iterative delivery steps
  • Translate business and regulatory requirements into technical solutions
  • Evaluate systems through health, reliability, observability, and monitoring metrics
  • Plan platform systems for future scale and regulatory needs

Requirements

  • Have at least 7 years of software engineering experience at senior or staff level
  • Build and operate systems at scale
  • Demonstrate expertise in software development and system design
  • Have experience with enterprise-grade systems such as security, compliance, data handling, access control, multi-tenant systems, or platform services
  • Own production systems, including observability, incident response, and reliability improvements
  • Work across teams and functions to drive technical initiatives end-to-end
  • Build reliable, scalable systems
  • Python
  • React
  • AWS

Benefits

  • 25 days of leave plus local holidays

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