Principal Engineer TL/M, Aviatrix Systems
Software Development, PaaS
$249-293k
+ Bonus & Equity
1 day a week in office (Santa Clara, CA)
Secure cloud networking
Be an early applicant
Secure cloud networking
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$249-293k
+ Bonus & Equity
1 day a week in office (Santa Clara, CA)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower businesses to accelerate innovation, minimize downtime, and gain control of IT costs.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including hands-on contributions to large-scale distributed systems
- 3+ years in engineering leadership roles, with direct experience managing engineers and driving team outcomes
- Strong knowledge of Golang and building gRPC-based microservices
- Deep experience with Kubernetes and cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Domain experience in network routing and network security
- Experience designing and operating a PaaS/SaaS product at scale
- Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems
- Strong understanding of elegant and robust API and system designs
- Ability to write clean, testable, and maintainable code and hold a high bar for the team
- Proven ability to deliver results in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills; comfortable working with a geographically distributed team
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- We embrace the fact that not everyone’s journey took the same route or started at the same place. If your experience doesn’t quite meet the requirements but the opportunity excites you and you believe you could be great, don’t let that hold you back from applying. Tell us what you CAN bring and what makes you special
What the job involves
- We are seeking a hands-on Principal Engineer TL/M - Software Development to join our PaaS team
- In this role, you will lead a team of engineers while also contributing to technical execution — defining designs, driving key features, and writing code alongside your team
- You will balance engineering leadership with individual technical contributions, owning both people management responsibilities and product components
- This is a Tech Lead/Manager (TL/M) role built for a builder who wants to grow as a people leader without leaving the craft behind
- Define and drive next-generation designs for complex distributed systems using Kubernetes and cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP), contributing directly to code and architecture alongside your team
- Own the end-to-end lifecycle (requirements, design, delivery, and operations) of key features of the PaaS product; break down large projects into executable sub-projects distributed across the team
- Evaluate key engineering tradeoffs and make data-driven technical decisions that balance velocity, quality, and scalability
- Write and present design proposals and technical documents that define complex problems and long-term solutions
- Lead, mentor, and develop a small team of engineers; oversee hiring, career development, and performance management
- Contribute to interviewing and recruiting efforts to attract and retain top engineering talent
- Partner with product management to translate business priorities into a clear technical roadmap and execution plan
- Foster a culture of accountability, technical excellence, diversity, equity, and respect
- Represent the team in cross-functional forums, collaborating across engineering, product, and go-to-market functions
Our take
Aviatrix is trying to modernise cloud technology by overcoming the isolation of different clouds that are built and operated by different companies. Its software facilitates multi-cloud networking, providing visualisation, smooth data access, and firewall management.
The cloud revolution caused a mass migration of companies’ data from on-premise storage to cloud storage, but this migration is still ongoing. Aviatrix’s software helps with this migration and then allows these clouds to communicate with each other, while maintaining security, data integrity, automation, and user friendliness.
The rapid growth and enormous potential in this market have been noted by other companies, and while investments are currently high, the space is likely to become crowded as competitors such as Site24x7 offer similar services. However, Aviatrix is a well-placed early adopter in an area of networking that hasn’t seen true innovation for years. It has also been named as one of the fastest-growing private companies by Inc 5000 and Deloitte's Fast500, indicating its strong position.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-30% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Sep 2021
$200m
SERIES E
Feb 2021
$75m
SERIES D
Total funding: $340.8m
Company benefits
- Stock options for all full-time employees
- Parental Leave (up to 12 weeks)
- Flexible Vacation
- Up to $1000 education reimbursement anually
- World-class coverage - we pay 100% of employee premiums and 88% of the family cost
- 401K
Company HQ
Santa Clara, CA
Leadership
Doug Merritt
(Chairman, CEO & President)Previously the CEO of Splunk and Baynote and was an Advisor at Birst.
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