About The Company
Who are we
Myntra is India's leading fashion and lifestyle platform, where technology meets creativity. As pioneers in fashion e-commerce, we've always believed in disrupting the ordinary.
We thrive on a shared passion for fashion, a drive to innovate to lead, and an environment that empowers each one of us to pave our own way. We're bold in our thinking, agile in our execution, and collaborative in spirit.
Here, we create MAGIC by inspiring vibrant and joyous self-expression and expanding fashion possibilities for India, while staying true to what we believe in.
We believe in taking bold bets and changing the fashion landscape of India. We are a company that is constantly evolving into newer and better forms and we look for people who are ready to evolve with us.
From our humble beginnings as a customization company in 2007 to being technology and fashion pioneers today, Myntra is going places and we want you to take part in this journey with us.
Working at Myntra is challenging but fun - we are a young and dynamic team, firm believers in meritocracy, believe in equal opportunity, encourage intellectual curiosity and empower our teams with the right tools, space, and opportunities.
Role - Principal Architect
Location: Bengaluru, India
Reporting Manager: Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Role Overview- As the senior-most Individual Contributor (IC) at Myntra, you will be the primary custodian of our end-to-end technical architecture. You will partner with the CTO to define the long-term technology roadmap that powers India's largest fashion e-commerce ecosystem. This is a role for a visionary builder who has seen systems fail at a billion requests and knows exactly how to prevent it the next time. You will not just design systems; you will evolve our culture of engineering excellence and act as the ultimate mentor to our community of architects. Key Responsibilities
- Architectural Stewardship: Own the global architecture blueprint for Myntra. Ensure that our systems (Commerce, Supply Chain, Logistics, and Ads) are decoupled, resilient, and ready for 10x growth.
- Strategic Engineering: Drive Zero-to-One initiatives. Whether it's moving toward a headless commerce engine, integrating agentic AI into the shopping funnel, or optimizing multi-cloud costs (FinOps), you lead the charge.
- System Integrity & Scale: Ensure the platform can sustain massive traffic bursts (e.g., EORS) with high availability ($99.99%+$) and sub-100ms latencies across critical paths.
- Technical Governance: Set the Gold Standards for API design, data modeling, and security. Review and sign off on high-impact RFCs and Design Docs across the organization.
- Architectural Mentorship: Act as the Primus inter pares (First among equals) for our architects. Build a world-class architecture guild, fostering a culture of rigorous peer reviews and continuous learning.
- Hands-on Prototyping: While you operate at a high level, you are expected to build vanguard prototypes or POCs for complex, cross-cutting technical problems. Ideal Candidate Profile
- The Veteran's Lens: 2025 years of experience in core consumer internet products. You have lived through multiple technology cycles and migrations.
- Scale Mastery: Proven track record of architecting and scaling distributed systems that handle billions of requests and petabytes of data.
- Tech Stack Breadth: Deep expertise in Java ecosystems, NoSQL/SQL (Cassandra, ScyllaDB, PostgreSQL), Streaming (Kafka, Flink), and Cloud-Native infra (GCP/Azure, K8s, Istio).
- Product Thinking: You don't build tech for tech's sake. You understand the fashion businessinventory turns, warehouse throughput, and customer LTV.
- Leadership without Authority: Exceptional ability to influence Engineering and Product Leadership through technical clarity, empathy, and data-backed conviction.
Why this role is unique at Myntra Unlike many Principal Architect roles that end up being managerial, this is a pure-play technical leadership path. You will have the ear of the CTO and the freedom to shape the future of a platform that defines how millions of Indians shop.
Required Skills
cloud platform, system reliability, scalability & performance engineering, architecture
