Principal Engineer

We’re seeking a Principal Engineer who combines hands-on execution with product ownership for automation tools. You’ll build services and automation while owning the roadmap for patch-processing tooling, prioritizing by impact, risk, and effort. You’ll partner with engineering and operations stakeholders to turn business needs into shippable deliverables and measurable outcomes.

What You'll Do

• Engineering

  • Write production Python code (services, CLI tools, automation)

  • Build and maintain CI/CD on GitLab

  • Prototype quickly and turn successful experiments into production-ready solutions

  • Improve reliability and operability (logging, metrics, monitoring/alerting)

• AI-Assisted Development

  • Actively use modern AI tools daily to accelerate coding, refactoring, debugging, testing, and documentation — while validating outputs, catching edge cases, and shipping production-quality code.

• Product Owner

  • Own the vision and roadmap for ELS Automation tools; prioritize by impact/risk/effort

  • Translate business needs into deliverables (plans, user stories, acceptance criteria, success metrics)

  • Be the primary stakeholder interface: align requirements across engineering/release/ops and communicate trade-offs

  • Drive outcomes: incident coordination when needed, post-mortems, and continuous improvements

Requirements

• Must have

  • 8+ years in software engineering, with recent daily Python coding

  • Strong GitLab CI / GitHub workflows (runners, pipelines)

  • Solid Linux fundamentals (shell, processes, networking, packaging)

  • Comfortable with observability (logs, metrics, monitoring, alerting)

  • Advanced use of LLM/AI tools to speed up coding, refactoring, debugging, and tests, and validates outputs to production quality

  • Product ownership mindset: can own a tool end-to-end, build/prioritize a roadmap, and translate ambiguous requirements into deliverables

  • Comfortable working in a fast-changing, high-ambiguity environment; able to iterate quickly and adapt priorities

  • Startup and/or “builder” experience: has shipped own projects or worked in a startup-like setting with end-to-end responsibility

  • Strong English communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Benefits

• A focus on professional development.

• Interesting and challenging projects.

• Fully remote work with flexible working hours, that allows you to schedule your day and work from any location worldwide.

• Paid 24 days of vacation per year, 10 days of national holidays, and unlimited sick leaves.

• Compensation for private medical insurance.

• Co-working and gym/sports reimbursement.

• Budget for education.

• The opportunity to receive a reward for the most innovative idea that the company can patent.