Principal Engineer

The opportunity is with a leading MNC into Product / Platform Engineering.

Brief : This is an Engineering Expert role with the core platform development team. The incumbent should have a strong background in Product/Platform engineering using any mainstream programing language (Java,Python,C++,C#,Golang etc) or preferably a polyglot. Ideally coming with a Product mindset than services. Strong experience in system design and technology leadership is required. The roles demands someone with a solid experience in Fullstack Development on cloud.

THE ROLE

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will embody engineerings culture of technical excellence and will help drive sweeping architectural changes as we modernize our platform.

Youll provide technical leadership across multiple teams like Identity (user management), Risk and Fraud, and other critical functions.

As a Principal Software Engineer you will:

-Drive transition from self-hosted services to cloud-managed services, helping our teams build highly scalable, fault tolerant solutions for our users

- Educate other engineering teams and advocate for scalable and maintainable architectural decisions.

- Collaborate closely with other engineering teams to build out additional observability throughout our stack utilizing tools like Datadog, AWS CloudWatch, and others

- Investigate new technologies and tools and recommend those that best fit the team and organization

- Work closely with AWS, leveraging a number of cloud native solutions to modernize the platform

THE TECH STACK

Our primary stack is Python/Django and Kotlin based microservices, running on the AWS platform. In addition to self-managed infrastructure like RabbitMQ and Kafka, we heavily rely on various AWS services such as Aurora, OpenSearch, ElastiCache, and many others. We also leverage the HashiCorp toolset in our stack (Consul, Nomad, Vault, and Terraform)

THE SKILL SET

• Understanding and application of computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, and design patterns
• 14+ years of application development and design experience with modern languages like Python,Java,C++,Golang, Kotlin, etc.
• Advanced knowledge of complex software design, distributed system design, design patterns, data structures and algorithms.
• Deep understanding of cloud providers such as AWS, and cloud architectures and design patterns.
• Track record of delivering successful solutions and collaborating with others
• You enjoy teaching and mentoring other

Salary

3000000 - 7000000 INR (Per Year)