Principal Staff Software Engineer

TrueFoundry is a company focused on building foundational infrastructure for production AI systems. They are seeking a Principal Staff Software Engineer to join their Core Engineering team, where the role involves driving system architecture and design for complex, distributed, cloud-native systems and mentoring engineers to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Develop deep expertise across TrueFoundry’s platform stack — infrastructure, deployment systems, LLM/ML orchestration, observability, cost optimization, and more
• Drive the system architecture and design for complex, distributed, cloud-native systems
• Act as the technical point-of-contact for enterprise customer engineering needs and escalations
• Lead and participate in design reviews, code reviews, and critical incident responses
• Collaborate closely with the CTO on architectural decisions, scaling strategies, and technical roadmap prioritization
• Guide and mentor US-based engineers across multiple initiatives, helping them deliver high-quality, scalable systems
• Identify and drive technical debt cleanup, performance improvements, and resilience upgrades across the platform
• Bring a product engineering mindset, ensuring that customer needs and feedback translate into scalable engineering solutions