The Principal Python Engineer will lead architectural decisions, scale data platforms, mentor engineers, and design systems for high-volume data processing.
About Teramind
Teramind is the leading platform for user behavior analytics, serving multiple use cases from insider risk mitigation to business process optimization. With our comprehensive suite of solutions, organizations gain unprecedented visibility into user activities while enhancing security, optimizing productivity, and ensuring compliance. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies and businesses of all sizes across industries, our innovative platform helps organizations protect sensitive data, maximize workforce performance, and create safer, more efficient digital workplaces. Through real-time monitoring and advanced analytics, we enable businesses to safeguard their most sensitive information while optimizing employee productivity in both in-office and remote work environments.
Our Core Values
At Teramind, our values drive everything we do. We embrace innovation as a fundamental principle, constantly pushing boundaries to improve our products, streamline processes, and enhance customer experiences. We foster resourcefulness by empowering our team members with the autonomy and confidence to solve problems independently while providing collaborative support when needed. As a globally inclusive organization, we celebrate diversity and create an adaptable work culture where respect and collaboration thrive across our international teams. Above all, we are committed to excellence, delivering the highest quality in every aspect of our work and consistently exceeding expectations in service to our clients and each other.
The Opportunity
We're seeking an experienced Principal Python Engineer who thrives on solving complex data challenges at scale. You'll own the architecture and evolution of systems processing billions of behavioral events daily, ensuring they remain fast, reliable, and cost-effective as we grow 10x.
While our current stack is Python-based, we're more interested in your problem-solving abilities and system design experience than expertise in specific languages.
Key Challenges You'll Solve
• Design data architectures that scale elegantly with our growth
• Reduce query response times from 30+ seconds to under 2 seconds
• Build resilient integration frameworks for dozens of third-party APIs
• Implement cost-effective strategies for long-term data retention
• Create self-healing systems that minimize operational overhead
Your Responsibilities
• Technical Leadership: Drive architectural decisions that impact our entire platform
• System Design: Build scalable solutions for high-volume data processing
• Team Development: Mentor engineers and establish best practices
• Cross-functional Partnership: Translate business needs into technical solutions
• Innovation: Evaluate and implement new technologies as needed
What Success Looks Like
• Platform reliability increases while operational burden decreases
• Engineers across the team become more productive through your contributions
• Complex technical challenges get solved pragmatically and efficiently
• Our data platform scales smoothly without major rewrites
Our Technical Environment
• Current Stack: Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redis, Docker
• Scale: Enterprise-grade platform serving thousands of organizations
• Philosophy: We value pragmatic solutions and iterative improvement
About You
• 7+ years architecting and operating distributed systems
• Track record of scaling data platforms through significant growth
• Experience making pragmatic build vs. buy decisions
• Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to drive clarity
Benefits
This is a remote job. Work from anywhere! We’ve been thriving as a fully-remote team since 2014. To us, remote work means flexibility and having truly diverse, global teams.
Additionally:
• Collaboration with a forward-thinking team where new ideas come to life, experience is valued, and talent is incubated.
• Competitive salary
• Career growth opportunities
• Flexible paid time off
• Laptop reimbursement
• Ongoing training and development opportunities
About our recruitment process
We don’t expect a perfect fit for every requirement we’ve outlined. If you can see yourself contributing to the team, we want to hear your story. You can expect up to 3 interviews. In some scenarios, we’re able to streamline the process to have minimal rounds. Director-level roles and above should expect a more thorough process, with multiple rounds of interviews.
All roles require reference and background checks
Teramind is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, age, religion, color, marital status, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status.
Top Skills
Clickhouse
Docker
Fastapi
Postgres
Python
Redis
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