Principal/Staff Software Engineer
- Role
- Backend
- Experience
- Staff
- Employment
- Full-time
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No BS summary
You will work on core enterprise platform systems, focusing on services that ensure Synthesia is secure, reliable, and scalable for our largest customers. You will contribute to our new suite of APIs that will unlock our market leading Avatar technology to be utilised by external creative tools. We are an AI native company and use the most powerful assistant tools on a daily basis to increase our speed of development, automate repetitive tasks and widen the scope of what the team can worked on. This includes Claude and Cursor. You will have ownership of projects that span months and multiple teams, requiring you to break down complex, ambiguous problems into clear steps that can be delivered and validated iteratively. Engineers within Synthesia are empowered to contribute heavily to product discussions and build with both user and business considerations in mind. Impact is key to everything we do here. You will work closely with product, security, legal, and infrastructure partners, and will be expected to translate business and regulatory requirements into scalable technical solutions. You will evaluate your work through system health and reliability metrics, leveraging observability and monitoring to ensure systems meet performance, reliability, and compliance expectations. You will consider the long-term direction of the platform, ensuring that the systems we build today can support future scale, enterprise requirements, and evolving regulatory needs.
Core skills
Required skills
Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US.
As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations.
Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow.
About the role
You will work on core enterprise platform systems, focusing on services that ensure Synthesia is secure, reliable, and scalable for our largest customers.
You will contribute to our new suite of APIs that will unlock our market leading Avatar technology to be utilised by external creative tools.
We are an AI native company and use the most powerful assistant tools on a daily basis to increase our speed of development, automate repetitive tasks and widen the scope of what the team can worked on. This includes Claude and Cursor.
You will have ownership of projects that span months and multiple teams, requiring you to break down complex, ambiguous problems into clear steps that can be delivered and validated iteratively.
Engineers within Synthesia are empowered to contribute heavily to product discussions and build with both user and business considerations in mind. Impact is key to everything we do here.
You will work closely with product, security, legal, and infrastructure partners, and will be expected to translate business and regulatory requirements into scalable technical solutions.
You will evaluate your work through system health and reliability metrics, leveraging observability and monitoring to ensure systems meet performance, reliability, and compliance expectations.
You will consider the long-term direction of the platform, ensuring that the systems we build today can support future scale, enterprise requirements, and evolving regulatory needs.
What we're looking for:
- At least seven (7) years of experience as a software engineer, with experience operating at a senior or staff level.
- You have experience building and operating systems at scale, ideally within platform or enterprise-focused teams.
- Strong expertise in development and system design. Experience across the stack is a plus, our tech stack is Python, React & AWS.
- Relevant engineering experience for teams building enterprise-grade systems; this may include areas such as security, compliance, data handling, access control, multi-tenant systems, or platform services.
- Experience owning systems in production, including observability, incident response, and reliability improvements.
- Ability to work across teams and functions, aligning with stakeholders and driving technical initiatives end-to-end.
- Strong alignment with building reliable, scalable systems that support long-term product and business goals.
- Previous experience leading projects or mentoring other engineers is a plus.
Why join us?
We’re living the golden age of AI. The next decade will yield the next iconic companies, and we dare to say we have what it takes to become one. Here’s why:
Our culture
At Synthesia we’re passionate about building, not talking, planning or politicising. We strive to hire the smartest, kindest and most unrelenting people and let them do their best work without distractions. Our work principles serve as our charter for how we make decisions, give feedback and structure our work to empower everyone to go as fast as possible. You can find out more about these principles here.
Serving 50,000+ customers (and 50% of the Fortune 500)
We’re trusted by leading brands such as Heineken, Zoom, Xerox, McDonald’s and more.g2.com/products/synthesia/reviews#reviews.
Proprietary AI technology
Since 2017, we’ve been pioneering advancements in Generative AI. Our AI technology is built in-house, by a team of world-class AI researchers and engineers. Learn more about our AI Research Lab and the team behind.
AI Safety, Ethics and Security
AI safety, ethics, and security are fundamental to our mission. While the full scope of Artificial Intelligence's impact on our society is still unfolding, our position is clear: People first. Always.
The hiring process:
- Tech Recruiter Interview (30-4
What you'll do
- Work on core enterprise platform systems, focusing on services that ensure Synthesia is secure, reliable, and scalable for our largest customers.
- Contribute to our new suite of APIs that will unlock our market leading Avatar technology to be utilised by external creative tools.
- Have ownership of projects that span months and multiple teams, requiring you to break down complex, ambiguous problems into clear steps that can be delivered and validated iteratively.
- Work closely with product, security, legal, and infrastructure partners, and will be expected to translate business and regulatory requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Evaluate your work through system health and reliability metrics, leveraging observability and monitoring to ensure systems meet performance, reliability, and compliance expectations.
- Consider the long-term direction of the platform, ensuring that the systems we build today can support future scale, enterprise requirements, and evolving regulatory needs.
What they require
- At least seven (7) years of experience as a software engineer, with experience operating at a senior or staff level.
- Experience building and operating systems at scale, ideally within platform or enterprise-focused teams.
- Strong expertise in development and system design.
- Experience across the stack is a plus, our tech stack is Python, React & AWS.
- Relevant engineering experience for teams building enterprise-grade systems; this may include areas such as security, compliance, data handling, access control, multi-tenant systems, or platform services.
- Experience owning systems in production, including observability, incident response, and reliability improvements.
- Ability to work across teams and functions, aligning with stakeholders and driving technical initiatives end-to-end.
- Strong alignment with building reliable, scalable systems that support long-term product and business goals.
- Previous experience leading projects or mentoring other engineers is a plus.
Benefits
- We’re living the golden age of AI.
- The next decade will yield the next iconic companies, and we dare to say we have what it takes to become one.
- Our culture
- At Synthesia we’re passionate about building, not talking, planning or politicising.
- We strive to hire the smartest, kindest and most unrelenting people and let them do their best work without distractions.
- Our work principles serve as our charter for how we make decisions, give feedback and structure our work to empower everyone to go as fast as possible.
- Serving 50,000+ customers (and 50% of the Fortune 500)
- We’re trusted by leading brands such as Heineken, Zoom, Xerox, McDonald’s and more.
- Proprietary AI technology
- Since 2017, we’ve been pioneering advancements in Generative AI.
- Our AI technology is built in-house, by a team of world-class AI researchers and engineers.
- AI Safety, Ethics and Security
- AI safety, ethics, and security are fundamental to our mission.
- While the full scope of Artificial Intelligence's impact on our society is still unfolding, our position is clear: People first.
- Always.
Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. It develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development.