Shippo
Principal Software Engineer, Data Products
Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.
United States only
Employer listed it 8h ago · Found 8h ago
First listed today.
Salary
$212k per year
Location
United States only
Timezone
US East
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Lead
Category
Software
Stated by the employer in the job description
Remote flexibility
Work from home
This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in United States. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "Remote (United States)"
- Job description states: "US and Ireland, the employment contr"
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- Payroll and tax are likely handled in that country only
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About the role
About Shippo
At Shippo, our vision is bold and clear: we are the shipping layer of the internet. Our mission is to make every merchant successful through excellent shipping, delivering world-class logistics technology and infrastructure. We’re building the backbone of global e-commerce — connecting merchants to carriers worldwide through a single API and intuitive dashboard.
As a remote-first and globally distributed team , we believe flexibility fuels trust, autonomy, and performance. Our diverse perspectives — across continents, cultures, and time zones — drive our innovation and enable us to build solutions used by businesses everywhere. We invest in modern, scalable technology so our teams can build, ship, and iterate with confidence.
Your impact starts here: every person at Shippo plays a direct role in shaping the infrastructure that powers global commerce and makes shipping simpler for businesses around the world.
How we will deliver success together:
Level the playing field: enterprise-grade logistics for small merchants
Large enterprises have spent years building the shipping intelligence that makes their logistics work: accurate delivery estimates, automated business rules, and supply chain decisions backed by real data. Small merchants have not had access to any of it.
Our data organization is closing that gap. We build the delivery estimates, business rules automation, and logistics insights that give a small merchant the same capabilities an enterprise logistics team takes for granted. We turn insight into action and simplify the complexity of running an ecommerce logistics operation.
That only works if the systems behind it are built well and run smoothly. We are looking for a principal engineer to set the standard for how we design, review, build, and operate those systems. You will work alongside our software engineers, data scientists, and data engineers to turn analytical and prototype work into the data-intensive systems, integrated with AI and ML, that our customers depend on for logistics decisions at scale.
Shipping & handling responsibilities
Engineering rigor
Set the bar in design review and code review by demonstrating it.
Raise the standard for testing, observability, and operational readiness across the Data org.
Turn repeated solutions into reusable primitives. Document them so the next team does not need you.
Grow the next set of technical leaders. Pair, mentor, and hand off ownership.
Architecture across engineering, data science, and data platform
Design and build the interfaces where Shippo's application services meet our ML and data systems. Write the reference implementation, not only the design doc.
Author technical RFCs to guide data, API, and application architecture. Run the reviews that make those decisions hold.
Set the performance, security and reliability standards for how application services call data and ML systems.
Data to production
Ensure analytical and data engineering work turn into systems that meet our bar for security, quality, maintainability, and performance.
Pragmatic approach working directly with data scientists and data engineers to find the friction in their workflow, then remove it.
Ensure our data products deliver customer and business impact. Balance speed to market against architecture, and say which one wins and why.
AI and ML
Requirements
- ·10+ years of software engineering, with deep ownership of large-scale production systems. You have set the engineering standard on a team, not just met it.
- ·Track record as a principal-level individual contributor. You set technical direction across teams, wrote the RFCs, ran the design reviews, and delivered multi-quarter roadmaps without direct authority.
- ·Depth in distributed, data-intensive production systems. You have made design decisions driven by latency, throughput, availability, and cost, and you have experience operating them in production.
- ·Strong working experience alongside data scientists and data engineers. You have taken analytical or prototype work and made it production grade.
- ·Proven adoption and mentorship. Teams chose the standards and tooling you built because they were better, not because someone mandated them, and engineers got better from working with you.
Benefits
No benefits package published with this listing. Ask about it at first interview.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Shippo, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (US East).
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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