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Principal Software Escalation Engineer

Office - Canada - TorontoFull-time$146k–$200k2026-07-20 → 2026-11-11
HybridVisa sponsorship offered

Core

Principal R&D escalation engineer providing 4th level support, proactive monitoring, and root cause analysis for pCloud's distributed privilege management services.

Role type

Principal Software Escalation Engineer

Builds

Scalable, fault-tolerant, high-load distributed systems for modern privilege services

Domain

Cybersecurity / Cloud Infrastructure

Required skills

Python debugging, API and microservices concepts, serverless technologies, AWS and Cloud Computing, advanced troubleshooting, root cause analysis, monitoring tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana)

Preferred skills

Experience with serverless technologies

Technologies

Python, AWS, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana

Responsibilities

Define and sharpen proactive monitoring capabilities, serve as 4th level support for R&D cases, reconstruct and debug field issues, drive projects to improve support processes, write technical tutorials and articles, monitor and improve availability/performance/security of production services, interact with leading engineers across the company

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC