Principal Engineer (worldwide remote, work anywhere)

What You'll Do

• Engineering
  • Write production Python code (services, CLI tools, automation)
  • Build and maintain CI/CD on GitLab
  • Prototype quickly and turn successful experiments into production-ready solutions
  • Improve reliability and operability (logging, metrics, monitoring/alerting)
• AI-Assisted Development
  • Actively use modern AI tools daily to accelerate coding, refactoring, debugging, testing, and documentation — while validating outputs, catching edge cases, and shipping production-quality code.
• Product Owner
  • Own the vision and roadmap for ELS Automation tools; prioritize by impact/risk/effort
  • Translate business needs into deliverables (plans, user stories, acceptance criteria, success metrics)
  • Be the primary stakeholder interface: align requirements across engineering/release/ops and communicate trade-offs
  • Drive outcomes: incident coordination when needed, post-mortems, and continuous improvements

Requirements

• Must have
  • 8+ years in software engineering, with recent daily Python coding
  • Strong GitLab CI / GitHub workflows (runners, pipelines)
  • Solid Linux fundamentals (shell, processes, networking, packaging)
  • Comfortable with observability (logs, metrics, monitoring, alerting)
  • Advanced use of LLM/AI tools to speed up coding, refactoring, debugging, and tests, and validates outputs to production quality
  • Product ownership mindset: can own a tool end-to-end, build/prioritize a roadmap, and translate ambiguous requirements into deliverables
  • Comfortable working in a fast-changing, high-ambiguity environment; able to iterate quickly and adapt priorities
  • Startup and/or “builder” experience: has shipped own projects or worked in a startup-like setting with end-to-end responsibility
  • Strong English communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Benefits

• A focus on professional development.
• Interesting and challenging projects.
• Fully remote work with flexible working hours, that allows you to schedule your day and work from any location worldwide.
• Paid 24 days of vacation per year, 10 days of national holidays, and unlimited sick leaves.
• Compensation for private medical insurance.
• Co-working and gym/sports reimbursement.
• Budget for education.
• The opportunity to receive a reward for the most innovative idea that the company can patent.