Principal Python Engineer

Teramind is the leading platform for user behavior analytics, serving multiple use cases from insider risk mitigation to business process optimization. With our comprehensive suite of solutions, organizations gain unprecedented visibility into user activities while enhancing security, optimizing productivity, and ensuring compliance. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies and businesses of all sizes across industries, our innovative platform helps organizations protect sensitive data, maximize workforce performance, and create safer, more efficient digital workplaces. Through real‑time monitoring and advanced analytics, we enable businesses to safeguard their most sensitive information while optimizing employee productivity in both in‑office and remote work environments. The Challenge Teramind protects 10,000+ organizations from insider threats by analyzing billions of behavioral events daily. We’re scaling to 100,000 customers, and our data platform needs to scale with us—without falling over at 3 AM or burning through our cloud budget. This isn’t a Python job. It’s a “make massive amounts of data queryable in under 2 seconds” job. Python happens to be what we use today. What You’ll Own Architecture that handles 10x growth without 10x complexity Making 5 engineers as effective as 15 through better tools and patterns Building systems that self‑heal so you can actually sleep Turning “we need better analytics” into actual solutions Choosing our next database, framework, or approach—and teaching us why Could you solve these example issues? Customer dashboard queries hit 45‑second timeouts on Monday mornings A “quick fix” data migration has been running for 3 weeks Third‑party API changes broke 40 % of integrations Compliance wants 7‑year retention. How do companies comply without storage fees going through the roof? What We Care About ✓ You ship. Perfection is the enemy of progress. ✓ You simplify. Your solutions make complex problems feel obvious. ✓ You teach. Your code reviews educate instead of criticize. ✓ You learn. New database? You figure it out. ✓ You own. If it’s broken, you fix it. Technical Environment Stack: Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redis, Docker, Cloud infrastructure Culture: We value developer productivity and fast iteration cycles. Team: Global, distributed, knows how to do remote right. This is a remote job. Work from anywhere We’ve been thriving as a fully‑remote team since 2014. To us, remote work means flexibility and having truly diverse, global teams. Additionally: Collaboration with a forward‑thinking team where new ideas come to life, experience is valued, and talent is incubated. Career growth opportunities Flexible paid time off Ongoing training and development opportunities About our recruitment process: We don’t expect a perfect fit for every requirement we’ve outlined. If you can see yourself contributing to the team, we want to hear your story. You can expect up to 3 interviews. In some scenarios, we’re able to streamline the process to have minimal rounds. Director‑level roles and above should expect a more thorough process, with multiple rounds of interviews. All roles require reference and background checks. Teramind is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, age, religion, color, marital status, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us. #J-18808-Ljbffr