Principal/Staff Software Engineer

About the role

You will work on core enterprise platform systems, focusing on services that ensure Synthesia is secure, reliable, and scalable for our largest customers. You will contribute to our new suite of APIs that will unlock our market leading Avatar technology to be utilised by external creative tools.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate systems at scale, ideally within platform or enterprise-focused teams.
• Strong expertise in development and system design, experience across the stack is a plus (Python, React & AWS).
• Experience owning systems in production, including observability, incident response, and reliability improvements.
• Work across teams and functions, aligning with stakeholders and driving technical initiatives end-to-end.
• Evaluate your work through system health and reliability metrics, leveraging observability and monitoring to ensure systems meet performance, reliability, and compliance expectations.
• Consider the long-term direction of the platform, ensuring that the systems we build today can support future scale, enterprise requirements, and evolving regulatory needs.

Requirements

• At least seven (7) years of experience as a software engineer, with experience operating at a senior or staff level.
• Relevant engineering experience for teams building enterprise-grade systems; this may include areas such as security, compliance, data handling, access control, multi-tenant systems, or platform services.
• Previous experience leading projects or mentoring other engineers is a plus.

Qualifications

• Strong alignment with building reliable, scalable systems that support long-term product and business goals.

Skills

• Experience with Python, React, and AWS.
• Experience with security, compliance, data handling, access control, multi-tenant systems, or platform services.
• Experience owning systems in production, including observability, incident response, and reliability improvements.
• Ability to work across teams and functions, aligning with stakeholders and driving technical initiatives end-to-end.
• Strong alignment with building reliable, scalable systems that support long-term product and business goals.

Benefits

• Full-time employment only - no contractors possible - through our US entity.
• 25 days of leave + local holidays (no extra paid or unpaid leave possible).
• We only sponsor VISA if you are in the US already and need support.

Pay

USD 200,000 base + stock option plan

Schedule

Full-time employment only - no contractors possible - through our US entity