role = “PRINCIPAL ENGINEER” if raises_bar and depth >= LEGENDARY and ships_code else “SENIOR”

role = "PRINCIPAL ENGINEER" if raises_bar and depth >= LEGENDARY and ships_code else "SENIOR" focuses on ships_code → you still build. regularly. in production.

What the role involves

• Ships_code → You still build. Regularly. In production.
• Build the engineering spine of a mobile wallet used by more than two billion people across four continents.
• Ship the data product behind peer-review submissions for one of the world's largest scientific publishers.
• Build systems that deal with real-world complexity (not toy problems).
• Write production code frequently, not just review or direct.
• Small teams, high ownership, large impact, minimal process overhead.

Skills and requirements

• Relevant technical, electrical, mechanical, maintenance, gas, plumbing, or engineering experience may be required.

Confirmed role details

• Open salaries.** Inside Sahaj, every Sahajeevi can see every other Sahajeevi's pay, including the founders'. The annual hike is voted on collectively in a room where the whole comp.

Candidate fit

• technical judgement, safe working habits, careful diagnostics, and practical problem-solving

Additional role context

• We're not looking for someone who has "been around for 10+ years".
• We can't promise which problem you'll pick up, but the menu right now looks something like this.
• Redesign a ClickHouse schema so an ad buyer can query 85 billion rows in under two seconds, and discover that pre-exploding the rows 168x is actually the right answer.