Principal Software Engineer – Data Engineering and Cloud

Company Overview

ThreeV Technologies, Inc. is an early stage venture backed startup. We’re developing a Multi-Sensory Asset Intelligence Platform (MSAIP) to revolutionize asset heavy sectors like Power & Utilities, Renewables, and Public Infrastructure. Our goal is to become the B2B Perplexity AI for the physical world. The ThreeV platform uses frontier AI techniques like customized large language models, as well as the latest computer vision model architectures to drastically improve the end to end inspection process. This allows customers to cut operations & maintenance (O&M) costs, streamline inspection decisions, and improve data accuracy to prevent asset failures. Global high profile safety incidents like wildfires over recent years underscore the urgent need for our platform, making it not just innovative but essential.

Job Summary

We are looking for an exceptionally strong Principal Software Engineer with deep cloud engineering, architectural, and coding expertise to help us scale our cutting edge AI SaaS platform. This is a high impact, hands on role for someone who thrives on building production grade systems, mentoring engineers, and shaping the technical direction of a venture backed, AI native startup.

You will work across multiple SDKs, cloud platforms, services, and data pipelines, writing code, reviewing complex PRs, defining architectural patterns, and acting as a force multiplier for engineering velocity. You'll be instrumental in helping us evolve from rapid prototyping to scalable, high quality systems that support inferencing at massive scale for utility infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and maintain high quality code in Python
• Design data pipelines that can consume from various systems in different shapes and sizes, including but not limited to Kafka, sensors, real time streams, and data lakes
• Be well versed in AWS, Azure, container based applications, and Kubernetes
• Work on different types of data engineering workloads, such as incremental, delta, and single source of truth patterns
• Review and approve PRs across services and SDKs with deep context and constructive feedback
• Rapidly prototype, scaffold systems, and break down complex architectures into modular subsystems and micro-services
• Lead and foster a high code quality culture within the organization, while carefully implementing software design patterns, messaging patterns and architectures
• Own technical strategy for scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure and multi-cloud setups
• Contribute to decision making on "build vs buy," especially around open source and commercial tools
• Build integrations and abstractions around customers’ legacy business systems such as SAP and GIS
• Help create and deploy modern data pipelines, APIs and SDKs
• Drive automation first thinking across environments, pipelines, and deployments
• Maintain high quality, reliable data engineering pipelines
• Actively participate in customer engagements, translating feedback into product and platform improvements
• Build tools and interfaces with UX sensitivity, working with the product design team focusing on user centric business software
• Mentor junior engineers in multiple time zones and collaborate cross functionally with product, data science, and customer success teams
• Create low latency, high throughput systems

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of full time software engineering experience, including in staff, lead, or architect level roles
• Deep experience with cloud native architecture and developing applications on Cloud, especially on AWS (must be hands on) and Azure
• Well versed in Databricks, Delta Lake, Apache Kafka, Airflow, and DAGs
• Strong Python skills preferred, experience in multiple programming languages highly valued
• Experience with containers, CI/CD pipelines, and modern cloud tooling
• Demonstrated ability to design and ship cloud applications at scale with low latency, auto-scaling, and request routing capabilities
• Familiarity with SDK development, API design (both consuming and building), and schema-less DBs
• Comfortable navigating both relational and NoSQL database architectures
• Track record of building high quality, open source or enterprise grade software
• Background working in high caliber tech companies or open source centric environments (e.g., Databricks, Hugging Face, Replicate)
• Solid understanding of software design patterns, cloud architectures and messaging patterns

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with or understanding of AI/ML platforms, computer vision labeling tools, and data pipelines
• Built or contributed to systems supporting computer vision or remote sensing data via data pipelines
• Prior work in or exposure to enterprise scale legacy modernization initiatives
• Background in utilities, energy, infrastructure, or regulated high complexity industries

Education

• Bachelor’s degree minimum, preferably in a relevant field such as: Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical or scientific discipline. Other educational backgrounds are encouraged to apply especially if Minimum or Preferred Qualifications above are met.
• A Master’s degree is preferred but not required, especially if the candidate has extensive related industry experience.

Work Environment

ThreeV.ai is a remote first company, with our primary base in Los Angeles, CA. We are supportive of remote work, providing flexibility to our team to work from wherever they prefer. However, we also believe in the value of in person connections. To facilitate this, we hold multiple all-hands team offsite meetings each year, fostering collaboration and team cohesion. Our work environment is a balance between remote flexibility and in person interaction for moments that matter, aiming to create a productive and connected global team. For this role candidates in California or candidates willing to relocate to California will be prioritized.

Candidate would be expected to travel for some important customer or team meetings (less than 10%).

Company Culture And Values

Our company values go by the acronym M.M.M. These values are simple and provide a foundation of how we work both with each other and with customers and partners.

• Mission

Our customers are working in an era of ever increasing demand for power and changing climate. Many have aging grid infrastructure, a workforce that is changing rapidly as workers retire, and ever-increasing costs.

Our mission is to understand our customers’ biggest challenges and solve them with our Insights Automation Platform. Our mission is to save lives, help keep the lights on, and help our customers do more with less in their highly complex organizations.

• Moral Integrity

Uncompromising commitment to honest and ethical behavior, always and without exception. We want all employees to be direct and provide open feedback regardless of level. We seek leaders who lead without titles while maintaining a flat organization to achieve our mission effectively.

• Mastery

We invest in your ongoing mastery and encourage sharing your skills with the world, helping fuel your passion for your craft, encouraging constant learning, and pushing your field forward. Mastery is about more than just your craft; it is also about how you bring it to others through collaboration and communication.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

ThreeV is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace, and we encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. At ThreeV, we value the strengths and perspectives that a diverse workforce brings to our organization, and we believe that diversity enhances our ability to serve our clients and achieve our mission. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any of the characteristics mentioned above. We are dedicated to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in our application process and during employment. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let us know. We look forward to considering your application and welcoming you to our team.

Compensation Range: $150K - $300K