Private markets are one of the largest, most complex, and most underserved corners of global finance. Our mission at Juniper Square is to unlock their full potential. We’re the Operations Partner trusted by 2,300+ GPs, unifying technology, data, and fund administration services into a single platform that helps GPs move faster, make better decisions, and scale with precision. With $300B+ under administration and 700,000+ LPs on platform, we’ve built the scale to match our ambition. And with JunieAI, our purpose-built AI platform, we’re reimagining how private markets operate, embedding intelligence across every workflow. Founder-led since 2014, backed by $350M+ in funding, and now 1,000+ employees strong, we’re building a company designed to shape the future of private markets for decades to come.
Our culture is built for people who want to do ambitious, meaningful work alongside exceptionally talented teammates. We think like owners, move with urgency, and take pride in solving hard problems that truly matter to our customers and the future of private markets. We believe the best ideas come from open debate, deep collaboration, and diverse perspectives, which is why we believe transparency is the default and feedback makes us stronger. If you’re energized by high standards, rapid growth, and the opportunity to help define a category at a pivotal moment, come join us!
Juniper Square offers employees a variety of ways to work, ranging from a fully remote experience to working full-time in one of our physical offices. We invest heavily in digital-first operations, allowing our teams to collaborate effectively across 27 U.S. states, 2 Canadian Provinces, India, Luxembourg, and England. We also have physical offices in San Francisco, New York City, Mumbai and Bangalore for employees who prefer to work in an office some or all of the time.
About the Role
We're looking for a Principal Engineer to join our Platform team, which owns foundational services like CIAM, Authorization, Search, API Infrastructure — and the tools, frameworks, and developer experience improvements that power engineering at Juniper Square. You'll be the senior-most technical voice on the team, blending hands-on engineering with technical leadership, architectural ownership, and cross-functional influence.
What You'll Do
Operates as the Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for high-impact initiatives; takes full ownership of project health, system design, and end-to-end delivery.
Partners closely with Product Management and cross-functional teams to clarify ambiguous requirements, map business goals to technical scopes, and manage dependencies.
architectural design, pragmatic task breakdown, and execution planning, driving a team of engineers toward incremental deliverables.
Establish reusable patterns, technical standards, and platform primitives that other teams can build on.
Improve engineering efficiency through better tooling, automation, documentation, observability, and developer workflows.
Mentor engineers, raise the quality of technical decision-making, and help the team execute with consistency.
Drives adoption of AI tooling across the SDLC — building internal capabilities that automate engineering workflows while ensuring security, compliance, and best-practice alignment.
What We're Looking For
12+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed production systems.
Strong backend engineering experience with Python frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, Pyramid, or Django.
Experience leading technical design for complex systems, including making architecture decisions, evaluating tradeoffs, and guiding implementation across multiple engineers or teams.
Experience with relational/nosql databases, including schema design, performance tuning, query optimization, and data modeling.
Experience building and operating cloud-native systems using technologies such as AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code.
Strong understanding of CI/CD, observability, reliability, and operational excellence in production environments.
Ability to work through ambiguity, break down complex technical problems, and drive alignment across engineering, product, and design.
Strong ownership mindset, with the ability to independently drive high-impact initiatives while collaborating effectively in a fast-paced environment.
Demonstrated ability to raise engineering quality through technical standards, design reviews, mentoring, and reusable platform patterns.
Passion for improving developer experience through better platforms, tooling, automation, documentation, and engineering workflows.
You are flexible and adaptable—you will be juggling multiple projects in a fast-paced startup environment.
Comfortable driving a technical vision with a focus on shipping value incrementally rather than waiting for a big-bang release.
Nice to Have
Platform team experience building tools and services consumed by other developers.
Experience building or integrating AI/LLM-powered systems in production, such as AI SDKs, RAG pipelines, evaluation frameworks, guardrails, prompt/tool orchestration, or model observability.
CIAM/Identity systems — Auth0, Okta, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, or custom-built identity infrastructure.
Security-aware design — least-privilege access, secrets management, secure API gateway patterns.
Passion for growing others through coaching, delegation, and leading by example.
Skills Required
- 12+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed production systems
- Strong backend engineering experience with Python frameworks
- Experience leading technical design for complex systems
- Experience with relational/nosql databases
- Experience building and operating cloud-native systems
- Strong understanding of CI/CD and operational excellence
- Ability to work through ambiguity and drive alignment
- Strong ownership mindset and ability to drive high-impact initiatives
- Demonstrated ability to raise engineering quality
- Passion for improving developer experience
- Flexible and adaptable in a fast-paced startup environment
Juniper Square Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Juniper Square and has not been reviewed or approved by Juniper Square.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental and family leave is frequently characterized as generous, with structured return‑to‑work support referenced. Feedback suggests family‑forming and caregiver supports are a notable strength.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO alongside paid holidays and sick time is consistently highlighted. Team practices like no‑meeting days and flexible scheduling further support time away.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — A digital‑first, remote‑friendly setup is reinforced by home‑office stipends, setup reimbursements, and expanded mental‑health support. Feedback suggests these perks materially improve daily work flexibility and wellbeing.
Juniper Square Insights
What We Do
At Juniper Square, we work hard every day to set the bar high in the work we do. We bring out the very best in each other without sacrificing kindness, quality, and the willingness to learn. You will see that every function and team is given respect here, because when any one of us wins, we all win. We bring a beginner’s mind to our work, not ego—enabling learning and creative and critical thinking. Some people talk about transparency, but here we treat you like the owner that you are: We share knowledge and information with all our employees, knowing that informed teams are successful teams (and happy ones too).
Why Work With Us
Our vision is to make the world’s private capital markets more efficient, transparent, and accessible through financial technology. We have an opportunity to transform an enormous and important industry, and we feel lucky to be working with the most talented, kindest, and most ambitious colleagues of our careers. Come join us!
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