Principal, Software Engineer

Location: Bangalore, India
Team: Global Software Engineering (US, Denmark, and India)
Reports to: Senior Software Engineering Manager

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior engineer to be part of a new engineering team in Bangalore focused on developer frameworks, internal tooling, and productivity platforms that empower our global engineering organization.

You will one of a handful of developers for this new team-designing and implementing core frameworks, discussing complex technical initiatives, and ensuring our tools scale effectively for a distributed group of ~100 engineers across the US, Denmark, and India.

This is a role for someone who enjoys writing high-quality code, solving technical problems, and improving how engineers build, test, and ship software every day.

Besides that there will also be ownership of crosscutting features of the product focusing on a "you build it - you own it" culture.

Key Responsibilities


* Design and build internal frameworks, shared libraries, and developer tools that improve reliability, speed, and consistency across engineering teams.


* Be part of technical deep dives, and system design reviews.


* Build and own cross cutting parts of the cloud application eg Audit logging


* Help drive adoption of modern engineering practices-CI/CD automation, Infrastructure as Code, test frameworks, and observability tooling.


* Prototype and deliver scalable, maintainable solutions that abstract complexity and simplify development for product teams.


* Continuously measure and improve developer experience metrics (e.g., build times, deployment reliability, test stability).


* Work as a team towards common team goals with a high focus on team collaboration and performance over individual performance.

Qualifications


* 14+ years of software engineering experience, with 8+ years in a senior role.


* Proven ability to design and build developer frameworks, SDKs, or platform services used across multiple teams.


* Deep expertise in Java and Spring.

Experience with Typescript and/or Python is helpful


* Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns.


* Experience with cloud-native systems (AWS, Azure, or GCP), containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins preferred).


* Familiarity with infrastructure automation tools (Terraform, Helm) and monitoring/observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).


* Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to balance architecture vision and implementation detail.


* Good communication and collaboration skills to work effectively across distributed teams.


* This is a hands-on individual contributor role focused on software engineering and platform development.

It is best suited for experienced professionals who enjoy staying close to the code and implementation and are looking to continue growing as a technical individual contributor rather than m...