The Role
Lead the development of full applications on Shakudo, solving data and AI challenges and creating scalable systems collaboratively.
Summary Generated by Built In
At Shakudo, we’re building the world’s first operating system for data and AI—a unified platform that streamlines powerful open-source and proprietary tools into a seamless, production-ready environment.
We’re looking for a Principal Software Development Engineer to lead the development of full end-to-end applications on our platform. This role is ideal for engineers who love solving real customer problems, moving across the stack, and delivering high-impact solutions that showcase what’s possible on Shakudo.
What You’ll Do
- Design and build complete applications—from backend to frontend—using Shakudo and open-source tools like Neo4J, ollama, Spark, and many more
- Solve real-world data and AI challenges with elegant, production-ready solutions
- Collaborate with Product and Customer Engineering to translate needs into scalable systems
- Drive architecture and design patterns for building on Shakudo—with high autonomy and self-direction
- Set the standard for building efficient, reusable, and impactful solutions
What You Bring
- 8+ years building production systems across the stack
- Strong backend and frontend experience (e.g. Python, React, TypeScript)
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and data/AI tooling
- A hands-on, solutions-first mindset and a passion for fast, high-quality delivery
Why This Role
You’ll lead by example, building flagship applications that demonstrate the power of Shakudo. This role offers high ownership, high impact, and the chance to shape how modern data and AI solutions are built.
Please include a link to your LinkedIn profile when applying for this role. Thank you!
Skills Required
- 8+ years building production systems across the stack
- Strong backend and frontend experience
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and data/AI tooling
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The Company
What We Do
Shakudo is an easy to use data platform that has everything that a data team needs to deliver products end-to-end and continuously adds new integrations that data teams want. By using Shakudo data teams become less reliant on engineers. Shakudo’s platform automates many common engineering and development tasks, and comes with built-in tools that simplify the process of scaling data solutions
