Principal Engineer (Platform)

ABOUT JUNIPER SQUARE

Private markets are one of the largest, most complex, and most underserved corners of global finance. Our mission at Juniper Square is to unlock their full potential. We're the Operations Partner trusted by 2,300+ GPs, unifying technology, data, and fund administration services into a single platform that helps GPs move faster, make better decisions, and scale with precision. With $300B+ under administration and 700,000+ LPs on platform, we've built the scale to match our ambition. And with JunieAI, our purpose-built AI platform, we're reimagining how private markets operate, embedding intelligence across every workflow. Founder-led since 2014, backed by $350M+ in funding, and now 1,000+ employees strong, we're building a company designed to shape the future of private markets for decades to come.

Our culture is built for people who want to do ambitious, meaningful work alongside exceptionally talented teammates. We think like owners, move with urgency, and take pride in solving hard problems that truly matter to our customers and the future of private markets. We believe the best ideas come from open debate, deep collaboration, and diverse perspectives, which is why we believe transparency is the default and feedback makes us stronger. If you're energized by high standards, rapid growth, and the opportunity to help define a category at a pivotal moment, come join us!

Juniper Square offers employees a variety of ways to work, ranging from a fully remote experience to working full-time in one of our physical offices. We invest heavily in digital-first https://blog.junipersquare.com/juniper-square-ponders-future-of-office-with-digital-first-hybrid-workplace-strategy/ operations, allowing our teams to collaborate effectively across 27 U.S. states, 2 Canadian Provinces, India, Luxembourg, and England. We also have physical offices in San Francisco, New York City, Mumbai and Bangalore for employees who prefer to work in an office some or all of the time.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We're looking for a Principal Engineer to join our Platform team, which owns foundational services like CIAM, Authorization, Search, API Infrastructure - and the tools, frameworks, and developer experience improvements that power engineering at Juniper Square. You'll be the senior-most technical voice on the team, blending hands-on engineering with technical leadership, architectural ownership, and cross-functional influence.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Operates as the Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for high-impact initiatives; takes full ownership of project health, system design, and end-to-end delivery.
• Partners closely with Product Management and cross-functional teams to clarify ambiguous requirements, map business goals to technical scopes, and manage dependencies.
• architectural design, pragmatic task breakdown, and execution planning, driving a team of engineers toward incremental deliverables.
• Establish reusable patterns, technical standards, and platform primitives that other teams can build on.
• Improve engineering efficiency through better tooling, automation, documentation, observability, and developer workflows.
• Mentor engineers, raise the quality of technical decision-making, and help the team execute with consistency.
• Drives adoption of AI tooling across the SDLC - building internal capabilities that automate engineering workflows while ensuring security, compliance, and best-practice alignment.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 12+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed production systems.
• Strong backend engineering experience with Python frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, Pyramid, or Django.
• Experience leading technical design for complex systems, including making architecture decisions, evaluating tradeoffs, and guiding implementation across multiple engineers or teams.
• Experience with relational/nosql databases, including schema design, performance tuning, query optimization, and data modeling.
• Experience building and operating cloud-native systems using technologies such as AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, observability, reliability, and operational excellence in production environments.
• Ability to work through ambiguity, break down complex technical problems, and drive alignment across engineering, product, and design.
• Strong ownership mindset, with the ability to independently drive high-impact initiatives while collaborating effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated ability to raise engineering quality through technical standards, design reviews, mentoring, and reusable platform patterns.
• Passion for improving developer experience through better platforms, tooling, automation, documentation, and engineering workflows.
• You are flexible and adaptable - you will be juggling multiple projects in a fast-paced startup environment.
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