Senior Principal Software Engineer, Feature Store

We’re looking for a Senior Principal Software Engineer to own and drive our feature store product. This is a unique opportunity to shape the technical direction of a product that serves some of the world’s most demanding customers, while building a world-class engineering team.

The Role

As Senior Principal Software Engineer for our Feature Store product, you will be the driving force behind our platform. You’ll own the technical vision, lead execution, and serve as the primary technical voice with our most strategic customers—including major banks and enterprise organizations with demanding requirements around performance, reliability, and compliance.

This role blends deep technical leadership with customer-facing responsibilities. You’ll spend time architecting systems, guiding the roadmap, setting engineering standards, and engaging directly with customers to understand their needs and translate them into product capabilities.

What You’ll Do

Own Technical Excellence: Define and drive the architecture, design patterns, and engineering standards for the feature store platform. Set a high bar for code quality, system reliability, and performance.

Lead V2 Implementation: Architect and execute the next generation of our feature store—building for scale, low-latency serving, and enterprise-grade reliability.

Guide Product Roadmap: Partner with Product and leadership to shape the technical roadmap. Translate customer requirements and market trends into actionable engineering priorities.

Engage with Strategic Customers: Serve as a trusted technical advisor to banks, financial institutions, and enterprise customers. Lead technical discussions, understand their ML infrastructure challenges, and ensure our platform meets their needs.

Build & Mentor the Team: Recruit, coach, and develop engineers. Foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Stay Hands-On: Actively participate in design reviews, code reviews, and critical implementation work. Lead by example in technical decision-making.

Drive Adoption of Modern Practices: Champion the use of AI-assisted development tools, observability best practices, and infrastructure automation to accelerate delivery.

What You’ll Need

8+ years of experience in backend/infrastructure engineering, with demonstrated expertise in building large-scale distributed systems

3+ years in a technical leadership role—leading teams, driving architecture decisions, and mentoring engineers

Deep experience with ML infrastructure, data platforms, or feature engineering systems at scale

Expertise in Python, Go, and Rust

Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and modern data infrastructure (Kafka, Flink, Redis, Spark, or similar)

Experience working with enterprise customers, particularly in regulated industries like financial services

Excellent communication skills—able to translate complex technical concepts for both engineering teams and business stakeholders

Nice to Have

Direct experience building or operating feature stores (Feast, Tecton, Hopsworks, or custom implementations)

Experience with real-time feature serving at sub-millisecond latencies

Background in financial services, banking technology, or compliance-heavy environments

Contributions to open-source ML infrastructure projects

Hands-on experience as a data scientist or ML practitioner—training and deploying models in production

Why Join Us

High-Impact Role: Own a critical product line and directly influence how the world’s leading organizations build ML systems

Enterprise Customers: Work with banks, financial institutions, and Fortune 500 companies solving real, complex problems

Technical Depth: Tackle challenges in distributed systems, low-latency serving, and ML infrastructure at scale

Competitive Compensation: Salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits

Flexible Work: Remote-friendly culture with flexibility to do your best work

Redis is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome candidates of all backgrounds.

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