Principal Engineer - Cloud

Overview

Principal Full Stack Engineer to provide technical leadership for a cloud-based network management (NMS) platform.

What you'll do

• Define the long-term technical roadmap for next-generation network management platforms.
• Lead R&D for AI-driven network operations, intent-based networking, and autonomous network management.
• Drive adoption of new networking standards, protocols, and management paradigms.
• Guide platform evolution toward intent-based networking, zero-touch provisioning, and self-healing networks.
• Act as chief technical advisor for strategic enterprise customers.
• Lead technical due diligence for potential acquisitions in the network management space.

What you'll need

• 15+ years of network software development experience.
• 8+ years in senior technical leadership.
• Advanced/Expert knowledge across intent-based networking principles and declarative network management.
• Expert experience applying AI/ML to network operations, including AIOps and autonomous network management.
• Mastery of cloud-native networking, service mesh, and container networking technologies.
• Deep expertise in network automation, including infrastructure as code and GitOps for network management.

Details

• Location: Chennai, India.
• Travel: up to 15–20% for customer meetings, conferences, vendor partnerships, and technical collaboration.