Nivalto · 20 hours ago
Founding Senior Principal Engineer — AI, Agents & Infrastructure (Nivalto • Stealth)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$250K/yr - $290K/yr
10+ years expNivalto is developing critical infrastructure for UHNW Family Offices, focusing on the emerging AI agent economy. The Founding Senior Principal Engineer will be responsible for creating a governance and transaction control platform for regulated environments, ensuring security and compliance while leading technical decision-making.
Financial Services
Responsibilities
Architecture & execution: translate specs into real services/APIs; make ruthless scope tradeoffs while preserving core guarantees
Security, evidence, audit posture: threat model, key strategy, verifier approach, incident playbooks; ensure outputs are tamper-evident, exportable, and independently verifiable
Principal-level technical leadership: set engineering standards (CI/CD, testing posture, release discipline, security baseline); own key technical choices; mentor and raise the bar for future hires and vendors through review and design leadership (without being a people manager)
Customer/partner readiness: support technical diligence, publish realistic integration guidance, and align roadmap to buyer pain—not novelty
Qualification
Required
10+ years building and leading software systems as a senior IC (Principal/Staff+); prior early-stage / founding environment experience strongly preferred
Proven ability to impose engineering discipline on fast-moving builds (especially with vendors), and to ship hardened systems—not prototypes
BS in relevant engineering discipline (minimum)
Strong backend/platform skills (APIs, distributed systems basics, reliability patterns)
Security-minded implementation skills: signing/verifying, key management concepts, audit trails, tamper-evident logging
Proven 0→1 to 1→N product execution: from whiteboard → PRD → shipped platform used by enterprises
Depth in governance, identity/authorization, or policy systems (e.g., PKI/mTLS, OAuth2/OIDC, Zero Trust; policy-as-code such as OPA/Rego or equivalent)
Fluency with cloud & distributed systems (multi-tenant control planes, Kubernetes-era delivery, observability, SLOs)
Strong standards or ecosystem chops (writing specs, running interop, aligning vendors/customers)
Exceptional writing & communication—clear specifications, design docs, and external-facing briefs
Ability to design systems that auditors, admins, and compliance teams can actually use (not just 'logs in JSON')
Preferred
MS or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field (preferred)
Gateways/proxies, policy engines, authorization systems, compliance logging, evidence pipelines
Payments orchestration or high-integrity transaction systems (state machines, idempotency, reconciliation)
Regulated domains (banking, healthcare, insurance, trading, supply chain)
Experience building admin tooling and operational consoles
MLOps experience for edge deployments (model rollout, monitoring, governance, rollback)
Products touching routing, service mesh, SDN, or network security, or AI orchestration in regulated settings
Participation in IETF/CNCF/W3C/OpenTelemetry/SPIFFE/SPIRE or similar bodies
Built conformance programs, certification/badging, or marketplace-style verification
Security + platform engineering leader (identity, authZ, gateways)
Payments infrastructure engineering leader (orchestration, treasury, risk controls)
'Fixer' principal engineer who stabilized vendor-built systems and scaled them
Potential prior employers (not required): Stripe, Adyen, Modern Treasury, Cloudflare, Okta, AWS, GCP, Microsoft, Plaid, Rippling, Snowflake, Palantir, Databricks (or similar 'systems + compliance + scale' environments)
Benefits
20–25% Performance Bonus
Equity Range: 1.25%–2% total at full-time conversion (4-year vest, 1-year cliff; milestone top-ups)
Company
Nivalto
Nivalto is building the future of wealth, legacy, and family office management through AURA — a next-generation AI operating system designed for ultra-high-net-worth families and advisors.
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase