# Principal Software Engineer at Blitzy

- Company: Blitzy
- What the company does: Blitzy: Build enterprise software in days with our autonomous AI platform. Automate up to 80% of development. Infinite code context. Accelerate your roadmap by 5x. Backed by Battery.
- Company website: https://blitzy.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Cambridge, MA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $300K to $500K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-21
- Apply by: 2026-11-05
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/blitzy/7b9336cb-b09f-45f3-bb15-e95d372ef542
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/blitzy-principal-software-engineer/

## About the role

We are hiring a Principal Engineer to take full, hands-on ownership of Blitzy's most critical production-grade systems and to deliver high-leverage features that materially improve customer outcomes and engineering velocity. This is the most senior individual contributor role at the company today.

## What they're looking for

- Direct experience with Python as a primary programming language, backend frameworks, and microservices architectures
- Expertise in REST and gRPC, with proficiency in Node.js and JavaScript
- Proficiency in AWS, along with experience using at least one additional cloud platform such as GCP or Azure
- Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes and Terraform in production environments
- Experience operating highly available production systems, including monitoring, scalability, reliability, performance optimization, and operational tooling
- Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, or DynamoDB

Tags: Engineering