Principal Staff Engineer - Web Platform
Core
Senior technical leader architecting, developing, and scaling high-traffic ecommerce web platforms and AWS infrastructure.
Role type
Principal Staff Engineer - Web Platform
Builds
Scalable LAMP-based ecommerce applications and AWS cloud infrastructure
Domain
Ecommerce, Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), AWS services (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch), distributed systems architecture, database performance tuning, high-scale performance optimization, CI/CD pipelines, observability, incident response, cross-timezone collaboration
Preferred skills
Mandarin language proficiency
Technologies
Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch), Git
Responsibilities
Design and maintain scalable features for the ecommerce platform; act as senior escalation point for complex production incidents; manage and optimize AWS infrastructure; monitor and improve application/database performance; coordinate development with China-based engineering team; champion code quality and engineering standards; provide technical mentorship and architectural guidance
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with leadership
