Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Redis is a company that built the product running fast applications worldwide. They are seeking a Senior Principal Software Engineer to lead the technical vision and execution of their feature store product, engaging with strategic customers and shaping the engineering standards.
Responsibilities
- Own Technical Excellence: Define and drive the architecture, design patterns, and engineering standards for the feature store platform. Set a high bar for code quality, system reliability, and performance
- Lead V2 Implementation: Architect and execute the next generation of our feature store—building for scale, low-latency serving, and enterprise-grade reliability
- Guide Product Roadmap: Partner with Product and leadership to shape the technical roadmap. Translate customer requirements and market trends into actionable engineering priorities
- Engage with Strategic Customers: Serve as a trusted technical advisor to banks, financial institutions, and enterprise customers. Lead technical discussions, understand their ML infrastructure challenges, and ensure our platform meets their needs
- Build & Mentor the Team: Recruit, coach, and develop engineers. Foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement
- Stay Hands-On: Actively participate in design reviews, code reviews, and critical implementation work. Lead by example in technical decision-making
- Drive Adoption of Modern Practices: Champion the use of AI-assisted development tools, observability best practices, and infrastructure automation to accelerate delivery
Skills
- 8+ years of experience in backend/infrastructure engineering, with demonstrated expertise in building large-scale distributed systems
- 3+ years in a technical leadership role—leading teams, driving architecture decisions, and mentoring engineers
- Deep experience with ML infrastructure, data platforms, or feature engineering systems at scale
- Expertise in Python, Go, and Rust
- Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and modern data infrastructure (Kafka, Flink, Redis, Spark, or similar)
- Experience working with enterprise customers, particularly in regulated industries like financial services
- Excellent communication skills—able to translate complex technical concepts for both engineering teams and business stakeholders
- Direct experience building or operating feature stores (Feast, Tecton, Hopsworks, or custom implementations)
- Experience with real-time feature serving at sub-millisecond latencies
- Background in financial services, banking technology, or compliance-heavy environments
- Contributions to open-source ML infrastructure projects
- Hands-on experience as a data scientist or ML practitioner—training and deploying models in production
Benefits
- Competitive Compensation: Salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits
- Flexible Work: Remote-friendly culture with flexibility to do your best work
Company Overview
Redis is the world's fastest data platform. It was founded in 2009, and is headquartered in Auckland, Auckland, NZL, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://redis.io/.Company H1B Sponsorship
Redis has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 11 in 2025, 7 in 2024, 2 in 2023, 5 in 2022. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.