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# Senior Staff / Principal Engineer - AI Systems Platform

- **Company:** Expertalent LP
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $250,000.0 - $280,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, JIRA, Cloud Computing, Python (Programming Language), Netsuite, Salesforce.Com, TypeScript, Backend, Amazon Relational Database Service, Machine Learning Operations, Terraform, Workday, Microservices
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/3e07b85b-4e26-4b26-a173-d9f321086922/senior-staff-principal-engineer-ai-systems-platform

## About the Role

* Staff / Principal-level backend or full-stack engineer
 * Strong systems experience (Python, TypeScript, APIs, AWS, cloud infra)
 * Background in 0*1 or early-stage startup environments
 * Experience building scalable, production-grade systems end-to-end
 * Comfortable in customer-facing, high-intensity environments
 * Bonus: AI systems, agent frameworks, or data/ML pipelines, come from top 5 CS undergrad

## Description

* Architect and scale core backend systems (APIs, microservices, orchestration)
 * Design and deploy across a modern AWS stack (ECS, RDS, S3, Terraform)
 * Integrate deeply with systems like Workday, Salesforce, NetSuite, Jira
 * Work directly with customers to map and operationalise complex environments
 * Help define engineering standards, hiring, and technical direction