Senior Staff / Principal Software Engineer (Technical Lead)
Device Platform • Reports to: Director of Software Engineering • Full Time • Office / Remote / Hybrid
Your Role at Pura:As a Senior Staff / Principal Software Engineer (Technical Lead), you will set the technical direction for the systems that connect, control, and update Pura's smart fragrance devices, while mentoring engineers and partnering across Product, Firmware, Mobile, and SRE to deliver reliable, scalable device experiences. You will help us inspire a belief in the power of fragrance to craft and elevate memorable moments for our Owners. This is your chance to make an impact in a high-growth company that's redefining the way people experience scent.
What You'll Own:
- Technical direction: Define and drive the architecture and roadmap for the Device Platform, from device connectivity to cloud APIs and smart home integrations
- Platform reliability: Own the availability, scalability, and performance of our device-control systems, including incident response and long-term fixes
- Hands-on design and code: Lead design reviews and stay in the code for our most complex, highest-impact systems
- Technical leadership: Mentor engineers at every level and set the standard for code quality, testing, and documentation
- Cross-team alignment: Partner with Product, Firmware, Mobile, and SRE to turn business goals into well-scoped technical plans
- Infrastructure and observability: Guide how we build, deploy, and operate our services on AWS using infrastructure as code, monitoring, and tracing
- Cost and efficiency: Make deliberate tradeoffs between cost, speed, and quality as our device fleet grows
Essential Functions:
- Author and review technical design documents, and drive them to a clear decision.
- Serve as an escalation point for production incidents and lead root-cause analysis.
- Influence engineering-wide architecture and technical standards beyond the team.
- Participate in hiring by interviewing candidates and helping shape the team's growth.
- Lead and participate in special projects and assignments as required.
Qualifications:
- 15+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant time leading technical direction for distributed systems or platform teams.
- Proven track record designing, building, and operating large-scale, highly available systems in production.
- Deep, hands-on experience with AWS is a plus.
- Familiarity with any of Go, Elixir, or TypeScript is a plus, as is the ability to work effectively in a polyglot environment.
- Experience managing your own infrastructure with tools such as Terraform, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry is a plus, as is experience with IoT or real-time messaging (e.g., MQTT).
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, influence without authority, and communicate complex ideas clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
