# Principal/Architect Software Engineer at Tonal

- Company: Tonal
- What the company does: Transform your workouts with Tonal, the leader in smart home gym equipment. Get AI-powered training and full-body workouts in a sleek, space-saving design. Backed by Sapphire.
- Company website: https://tonal.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $275K to $320K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-07
- Apply by: 2026-11-23
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tonal/151aaa91-19a6-4e56-ba1f-879db059f5de?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/tonal-principal-architect-software-engineer/

## About the role

You’ll lead architecture and delivery across Tonal’s device, app, and cloud systems: turn business priorities into technical direction, own initiatives that span teams, and grow senior engineers into technical leaders. You report to engineering leadership and stay hands-on from design through production. Success means shipped outcomes, stronger systems, and teams that move faster. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- You’ve led architecture and delivery across multiple teams at Senior Staff or Principal scope, with measurable results
- You have deep backend, distributed systems, and cloud expertise and reason well across device, mobile, data, and service boundaries
- You still build and operate production software. You’ve owned hard integrations or migrations and made pragmatic tradeoffs between speed, reliability, security, cost, and maintainability
- You turn ambiguity into focused plans and get alignment from technical and nontechnical partners
- You’ve made other senior engineers stronger technical leaders and can show how your work improved teams beyond your own

Tags: Technology

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/tonal-principal-architect-software-engineer/
