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Principal Engineer Location: Edinburgh – Hybrid working model, fully remote considered SnapDragon is a technology-enabled online brand protection business serving global brands, law firms and IP professionals. We combine proprietary AI-driven detection software with a highly trained, multilingual team of analysts to identify, evidence and remove digital infringements at scale. Value to SnapDragon’s global clients is provided through enforcing against illicit products, infringing domains and websites, fake apps, and social media site impersonators. SnapDragon defends client reputations and revenues and keeps brands and their consumers safe. We are inquisitive, tech and brand savvy, digital bodyguards. We are looking for a Principal Engineer to join our growing engineering team. This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives in a fast-moving environment, takes genuine ownership of the systems they build, and cares deeply about code quality, reliability, and the people around them. You will work across the full stack of our backend platform, from product features with complex business logic to the infrastructure and data pipelines that underpin them. If you’re looking to move away from building, this isn’t the right fit. Own significant parts of our platform end-to-end, from database schema to deployment pipeline. Help define and uphold engineering standards: code review, testing practices, documentation, and beyond. Participate actively in agile ceremonies, sprint planning, and iterative delivery. 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of delivering production systems at scale. ~ Strong proficiency in a dynamic programming language such as Ruby, Python , or similar, and deep familiarity with a major web framework ( Ruby on Rails , Django , or equivalent). ~ Expert-level SQL skills , with particular depth in PostgreSQL , including schema design, query optimisation, and an understanding of what happens under the hood. ~ Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL database administration and management . You’re comfortable owning a database, not just querying it. ~ We use Terraform and Terragrunt , and we expect you to be comfortable reading, writing, and reviewing infrastructure definitions alongside application code. ~ A proven track record building and maintaining APIs and web applications that involve non-trivial, real-world business logic. ~ Testing is a natural part of how you work , not an afterthought. Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to the development of engineering culture and standards.
Experience working with data lakes or large-scale data platforms. Exposure to machine learning systems, whether building, integrating, or maintaining ML pipelines in production. Our engineering team is primarily based in Edinburgh , and we’d love you to be part of that in person where possible. That said, we’re open to fully remote candidates within the UK for the right person, with the expectation of periodic visits to Edinburgh for team time, planning, and collaboration. …