We are looking for an experienced Principal Engineer to join a high-impact Engineering organization focused on building large-scale distributed systems and cloud platform services.

The ideal candidate should possess deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, platform scalability, and technical leadership.

This role requires strong ownership in designing and building highly resilient systems capable of handling billions of requests with sub-second latency in fault-tolerant environments.

You will work on complex large-scale engineering challenges involving cloud storage systems, metadata platforms, search systems, recommendation engines, synchronization platforms, intelligent caching systems, and multi-petabyte scale distributed architectures.

Key Responsibilities :

- Design and develop highly scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant cloud architectures integrated with on-premises systems.

- Lead the development of large-scale distributed systems and backend platform services.

- Drive technical direction and engineering strategy for platform scalability, reliability, and performance optimization.

- Identify and execute technical opportunities to improve efficiency across cloud infrastructure and platform services.

- Architect and optimize systems handling: Billions of requests per day Multi-petabyte datasets Low-latency distributed workloads

- Own end-to-end delivery of critical engineering initiatives including : System Design Architecture Development QA Coordination

Deployment Monitoring & Reliability :

- Collaborate with engineering teams to solve complex scaling and distributed computing challenges.

- Communicate complex architectural decisions and technical trade-offs effectively across teams.

- Evaluate industry trends and emerging technologies to drive platform innovation.

- Build systems that proactively prevent reliability, scalability, and operational bottlenecks.

- Mentor engineers and provide strong technical leadership across engineering initiatives.

Areas of Engineering Exposure :

- Candidates with experience in one or more of the following areas will be highly preferred : Distributed Systems Cloud File Systems Object Storage Systems Metadata Stores Search Platforms Recommendation Systems Synchronization Engines Intelligent Caching Systems Content Classification & Lifecycle Management User Behavior Analytics Platforms

Required Skills & Qualifications :

- Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

- 8 to 15 years of professional software engineering experience with strong backend/platform engineering expertise.

- Proven history of technical innovation and scalable system design.

- Strong expertise in : Distributed Systems Cloud-Native Architectures Scalability Engineering High Availability

- Systems Performance Optimization : Experience designing systems that operate at large scale with low latency and fault tolerance.

- Strong understanding of : System Design Distributed Computing Reliability Engineering

Data-intensive Applications :

- Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring engineers.

- Strong analytical, debugging, and architectural problem-solving skills.

- Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.

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