Principal Software Engineer

Overview

Principal Software Engineer to lead planning, design, development, and testing of large-scale software systems and new product capabilities for cloud and internet-facing services.

What you'll do

• Lead architecture and system design for complex, distributed software systems.
• Design, implement, and review high-quality code for core services, APIs, platforms, and/or user-facing applications.
• Translate business goals into technical roadmaps and align stakeholders on solution direction.
• Improve system resiliency, latency, throughput, and cost efficiency and establish SLOs/SLAs and operational practices.
• Drive standards for coding, testing, CI/CD, observability, security, and documentation, and champion automation and quality.
• Coordinate delivery across multiple teams by partnering with engineering managers, staff engineers, and product leaders.

What you'll need

• 12+ years of experience designing and developing highly-available, high-scale, secure, mission critical native cloud enterprise SaaS applications in Java, Go or Python.
• Knowledge of architectural patterns and archetypes for building distributed and multi-regional deployments.
• Excellent high-level service design skills for modular, composable, extensible systems.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, or other public cloud infrastructure platforms.
• Experience building distributed systems at scale using microservices architecture.
• Extensive experience with REST API design and implementation.
• Experience with data architecture such as Clickhouse, Lakehouse, or Snowflake.

Details

• Role is remote and based in India in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Maharashtra, and New Delhi.
• Occasional travel may be required for project or team in-person meetings.