# Principal Engineer at Weave

- Company: Weave
- What the company does: Weave combines LLMs and domain-specific machine learning to understand engineering work. We understand how much work was done, how good it is, and how AI contributed. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://weaveos.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: US Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-08-25
- Apply by: 2026-10-09
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/weave/be890e53-b0fc-42a8-b148-6f9e4e6053d4
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/weave-principal-engineer/

## About the role

12+ years of software engineering experience with progressive technical leadership scope Track record of leading cross-team technical initiatives that delivered measurable business outcomes

## What they're looking for

- 12+ years of software engineering experience with progressive technical leadership scope
- Track record of leading cross-team technical initiatives that delivered measurable business outcomes
- Demonstrated ability to influence without authority, build consensus across organizational boundaries, and translate technical tradeoffs into business terms
- Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, including building and operating services that handle hundreds of millions of transactions and terabytes of data
- Proven experience with event streaming and messaging infrastructure (Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, or similar) at significant scale
- Strong background in scalable data stores—both relational (PostgreSQL at scale, Vitess, Spanner) and NoSQL (Bigtable, Redis, etc.)

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