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Posted 19 Mar 2026

Principal Staff Software Engineer, Systems Infrastructure

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Employment
Full time
Workplace
Hybrid
Team
Engineering
Posted
19 Mar 2026

About the role

Job Description

You will drive the technology vision and create business impact by putting to use your passion for very large-scale distributed systems and software as services and your passion for writing code that performs at an extreme scale. We also work with industry standard open-source infrastructure products like Kubernetes, GRPC and GraphQL - come join our infrastructure teams and share the knowledge with a broader community while making a real impact within our company.

This role will be based in Bangalore, India.

Responsibilities

  • You will build and ship software, drive architectural decisions and implementation across the BigData ecosystem that includes data processing pipelines, pubsub systems, observability, compliance, etc.
  • You will design the right interfaces/APIs for long term evolution of the services.
  • You will be responsible for the high availability, reliability, scalability and performance of these systems
  • You will invest in growing junior engineers, developing design and craftsmanship skills and culture.
  • You will lead cross team/cross functional discussions and drive alignment on product/technology strategy. You will work closely with other stakeholders in HeadQuarters to drive intra-team alignment.
  • You will be a primary domain expert to influence technology choices.
Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

  • BA/BS Degree or higher in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or related practical experience
  • 18+ years of programming experience in Java, C++or similar programming languages
  • 18+ years' experience building large-scale distributed systems, applications or similar experience

Preferred Qualifications

  • MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
  • 18+ years of relevant work experience.
  • Experience with strategic planning, executing on a long-term roadmap, team development and scaling processes to support business growth.
  • Designing and building infrastructure and backend services at internet scale.
  • Building and shipping high quality work while achieving high reliability.
  • Utilizing data and analysis in articulating technical problems and in arriving at recommendations and solutions.
  • Leading high-impact cross-org initiatives
  • Expertise in BigData systems like Apache Hadoop, Spark, Iceberg etc is highly desirable

Suggested Skills

  • BigData technologies
  • Large-scale distributed systems
  • Communication
Additional Information

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