# Principal Engineer at Vouch

- Company: Vouch
- What the company does: Vouch is the insurance broker that powers ambition. We’re a tech-enabled insurance advisory and brokerage purpose-built for growing companies in technology, life sciences, and professional services. Backed by Index, Y Combinator and 500 Global.
- Company website: http://vouch.us/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Chicago, IL (Hybrid)
- Work setup: Hybrid
- Pay: $245K to $285K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-13
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://ats.rippling.com/vouch-inc/jobs/0ae54de6-a412-4aee-ada6-3cc923f6bf5c
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/vouch-principal-engineer/

## About the role

Vouch's engineering organization is becoming agent-native: a large and growing share of our production code is written by AI coding agents working inside human-governed guardrails. That moves the hard problems. Writing code got cheap; deciding what to build, keeping the architecture coherent, and proving that what shipped is correct did not. This role owns that layer.

## What they're looking for

- You are at home in more than one language ecosystem — e.g., systems-level work in Rust or a peer language, large-scale strictly-typed TypeScript, etc. — and you know which discipline each one demands
- Frontier models are daily instruments in how you build, and “the model can probably do this” is a hypothesis you test with an eval, not a hope you ship on
- You have run infrastructure other people depend on: infrastructure-as-code at organization scale, GitOps, container orchestration, secrets, observability-as-code — and a pager you did not hand back
- You treat delivery machinery — CI/CD, environments, releases — as a product with users, and you can argue a migration in cost and risk rather than tool preference
- You reason in writing. ADRs, design docs, review comments — decisions here live in documents, and you make arguments better by writing them down
- You multiply rather than add. The measure of this seat is what the engineers and agents around you can safely do a quarter after you arrive

Tags: Engineering