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Ever dreamt of a role where you call the shots on where you work? Welcome to Safeguard Global! We're all about making work fit your life, not the other way around.🦸
Our “work in any way” philosophymeans tackling projects from the comfort of your couch, breaking up your day to run errands, or taking meetings from a cozy café in another country.At Safeguard Global, you have the flexibility to balance productivity with life’s moments while meeting your deadlines.🛣️
How you will make a difference:
We're hiring across multiple teams, and as a Principal Engineer, you'll work across these domains: guiding architecture, influencing design, and unblocking complex problems in areas such as:
- Knowledge Platform
- Client Account Management
- Integrations
- Client analytics
- Time and Attendance
All teams share a common goal: building reliable, scalable systems that power critical business operations for our customers.
This is a fully remote role, working with a distributed team.
How you will make a difference:
- Define and drive the architecture of scalable, event-driven systems on AWS
- Lead the design and evolution of core platform services and distributed systems
- Set technical direction across teams, ensuring consistency and long-term maintainability
- Solve complex, cross-cutting engineering problems (e.g. scaling, data consistency, system resilience)
- Establish best practices for reliability, observability, and performance across the platform
- Design systems that handle high event throughput, failure scenarios, and eventual consistency at scale
- Partner closely with Data Engineering to shape data architecture, pipelines, and platform capabilities
- Influence and improve engineering standards, tooling, and ways of working
- Mentor senior engineers and act as a technical leader across multiple teams
- Contribute to strategic technical decisions and roadmap planning
What will give you an advantage:
We care more about what you can do than ticking every box, but strong candidates will have:
- Significant experience (typically 8-12+ years) building and scaling backend systems in production environments
- Deep expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js preferred) or similar backend ecosystems
- Strong hands-on experience designing distributed systems and event-driven architectures
- Proven experience architecting systems on AWS, particularly serverless (Lambda, EventBridge, S3, API Gateway)
- Track record of leading large-scale technical initiatives or platform transformations
- Deep understanding of reliability patterns (e.g. idempotency, retries, backpressure, fault tolerance)
- Experience operating systems at scale, including observability, monitoring, and incident response
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (CDK, Terraform, or similar)
- Solid understanding of data modelling and working with high-volume, data-intensive systems
- Ability to influence technical direction without direct authority
Nice to Have
- Experience with modern data platforms (e.g. dbt, Athena, data lakes)
- Experience in multi-tenant SaaS architectures at scale
- Familiarity with BI and analytics tools (e.g. QuickSight)
- Exposure to frontend technologies (React / Next.js)
- Experience introducing or scaling platform engineering practices
How We Work
- Fully remote, async-friendly, and collaborative
- Small teams with end-to-end ownership
- Strong engineering culture with high autonomy and accountability
- Ship often via CI/CD
- Emphasis on reliability, observability, and real-world impact
- We actively use AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Cursor, ChatGPT) to accelerate delivery and reduce toil
About us:
We’renot bound by traditional ways of doing things. Yep, we enable global expansion without the riskformore than 1,500 clients, but what really sets us apart is our vibe. We’re a community of 900+Guardians,spread-outover50+ countries, united by our dedication to a remote first and flexible workforce.🌎
Why become a Guardian:
👨💻 Autonomy and Flexibility (work in any way): Remote first, with the flexibility to include life needs like school runs and gym breaks in your schedule, all while maintaining a high standard of work.
🌴 Generous leave: Enjoy a competitive leave package including paid bonding leaves for new additions to your family
🎁 Make a difference: Get 2 paid charitable days off to contribute to causes you believe in
💰 Corporate bonus/SIP: All Guardians are eligible for our annual bonus scheme or sales incentive plan.
✈️ International environment: Grow your network internationally and collaborate across the world. Interact, discover cultures, and tap into local expertise.
⭐ Human centered culture:We emphasize the people factor in everything we do. Our nurturing culture ensures your ideas reach our leaders and your contributions get the recognition they deserve.
📚 Learning: We support your continuous growth by providing access to 2 learning platforms, where you can learn at your own pace.
Next Steps:
Ready to join a workforce that shapes itself around your life, and embrace remote work like a pro? Applyby clicking on the following link.We wish you the best with your application.
Welcome to the future of work!🌐
At Safeguard Global, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and Guardians.
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