# Principal + Staff Software Engineers at Unstructured

- Company: Unstructured
- What the company does: Transform complex, unstructured data into clean, AI-ready inputs. Connect to any source, process 64+ file types, and power your GenAI projects. Start now. Backed by Madrona and Menlo.
- Company website: https://unstructured.io/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-04-30
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/unstructured/8ab839b1-176c-4178-9996-7ce453497b6f
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/unstructured-principal-staff-software-engineers/

## About the role

Unstructured is looking for Staff and Principal Software Engineers to define the architectural foundation for how enterprises process and transform unstructured data for large-language-model (LLM) applications.

## What they're looking for

- Have 10+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on distributed systems, infrastructure, or data architecture
- Are a Python expert—capable of building frameworks and performance-critical services from scratch
- Have deep Kubernetes expertise, you can design, deploy, and debug at scale and could teach others how to productionize it securely
- Are fluent in Postgres—you understand query planning, partitioning, and tuning for high-throughput environments
- Are obsessed with clean, scalable architecture and can lead design reviews that shape how entire systems evolve
- Have experience in high-performance data or AI/ML systems—especially those involving retrieval pipelines, embeddings, or hybrid workloads

Tags: Commercial