Principal Engineer – Product Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Brazil.

📋 Description

• Lead the technological advancement of Sensedia’s product platform.

• Establish a visionary roadmap for product and technology transformation projects.

• Analyze the existing architecture and guide the shift towards the desired architecture.

• Formulate the integration of generative and agentic AI into product architecture.

• Develop guidelines, reference architectures, and proofs of concept for LLMs, agents, and MCP.

• Contribute to the architecture of agent-based software development, encompassing orchestration, roles, and guardrails.

• Spearhead prototypes, proofs of concept, and pilot projects for significant technical choices.

• Collaborate with Product Managers on strategic discovery and assess feasibility, complexity, and technology.

• Lead the architecture guild, transforming common topics into decisions and standards.

• Act as a resource for Staff Engineers and facilitate the development and progression of the senior technical career path.

• Formulate technical recommendations and negotiate trade-offs among technology, business, and compliance aspects.

• Support high-risk decisions by alleviating risks associated with architecture, compliance, resilience, scalability, and operational efficiency.

• Represent product technology both internally and externally to engineers, C-level executives, internal teams, customers, and analysts.

• Execute significant technical tasks, including coding, proofs of concept, code reviews, and troubleshooting.

• Assist squads in overcoming technically complex challenges.

• Embed scalability, resilience, availability, SLOs, application and container security, and costs into architectural design.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive and demonstrable technical career across multiple products or domains.

• Proven history of architectural decisions that have influenced the entire organization and have endured over time.

• Practical experience with generative and agentic AI applied to product architecture, including systems featuring LLMs, agents, and platforms exposed to agents (MCP, tool use).

• Experience in agent orchestration within daily software development processes.

• Proven ability to lead architects or senior technical professionals through influence and example, without formal authority.

• History of influencing decisions without formal authority, gaining the trust of engineers, leadership, and C-level executives.

• Experience with scalable distributed and multi-tenant cloud architectures.

• Product-oriented mindset, linking architectural choices to business and customer goals.

• Strong communication and negotiation skills with both technical and executive audiences, backed by structured analysis.

• Advanced English proficiency for technical and market research, as well as discussions with customers and suppliers.

• Familiarity with the JVM ecosystem, Java, Spring Boot, Quarkus/GraalVM, Go, Python, and Node/TypeScript.

• Understanding of multi-tenant architectures, control plane/data plane, event-driven systems, Kafka, and SNS/SQS.

• Knowledge of Kubernetes, GitOps, EKS, ArgoCD, Terraform, and OpenTelemetry.

• Familiarity with agentic AI, AI Gateway, and MCP runtime.

• Preferred: experience with API Management, Open Finance, and iPaaS; OAuth/OIDC/mTLS, FAPI, Open Finance/Open Insurance, JWS, DCR, and PAR; proficiency in Spanish; awareness of LGPD, PCI, and ISO 27001; experience in people management.

🏝️ Benefits

• Meal/food allowance (Flash benefits card).

• Health insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Life insurance.

• Profit-sharing program (PPR).

• TotalPass.

• Childcare assistance.

• Well-Being Program supporting physical and mental health.

• Corporate University (#SensediaAcademy), offering various development pathways.

• Cultural and educational partners providing special discounts.

• Maternity leave and extended paternity leave.

• Flexible work model (#WorkWhereYouBelong).