We are seeking a highly skilled and visionary Principal Engineer with deep expertise in full stack development and hands-on experience in cloud and DevOps practices.

This role is ideal for a technical leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys solving complex problems, and is passionate about building scalable, secure, and high-performance systems in collaboration with cross-site teams.

Key responsibilities :

- Lead the design and development of robust, scalable, and secure full stack applications.

- Architect and implement cloud-native solutions using AWS & Azure.

- Drive DevOps initiatives including CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, monitoring, and automation.

- Collaborate with product managers, architects, cross-site and cross-functional teams to define technical strategy and roadmap.

- Lead Technical Initiatives and take strong technical decisions in collaboration with cross-site teams aligning business vision.

- Champion engineering best practices, code quality, and performance optimization.

- Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

- Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies to enhance system capabilities and developer productivity.

- Apply best practices on code quality and security-safe code through non-functional requirements mastery, code reviews, coding guidelines, unit testing and code refactoring.

Required Skills & Experience :

- Proven experience in full stack development using backend technologies (e.g., Java, GO, Python) and frameworks (e.g., React, Angular).

- Strong hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS and Azure).

- Proficiency in DevOps tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar.

- Deep understanding of microservices architecture, RESTful APIs, and event-driven systems.

- Good understanding of database systems, including Relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server)and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, DocumentDB).

- Fair knowledge in database performance tuning, indexing, replication, and backup strategies.

- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog).

- Good knowledge in AI concepts and effective usage of GenAI, Copilot & AgentAI tools to delivery fast and smart results.

- Strong communication & negotiation skills, with problem-solving mindset and leadership qualities.

Key Stakeholders :

- R&D Senior Managers, Managers, R&D Engineering teams, Scrum Masters & Product owners.

- Product Management team.

- Customer Success & Implementation teams.

- User experience teams.

- Architects & Principal Engineers in departments and across Amadeus globally.