Principal Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

• Architecture & System Design:
• Define and evolve the overall architecture for scalable, multi-tenant, and modular distributed systems.
• Establish and govern best practices for service design, API development, security, observability, and performance.
• Ensure system extensibility, modularity, and maintainability across services.
• Hands-On Technical Leadership:
• Write and review code for performance-sensitive modules to set quality and architectural standards.
• Lead design discussions and mentor senior and mid-level engineers to enhance engineering quality.
• Review code, designs, and technical documentation to ensure adherence to architectural principles.
• Collaboration & Strategy:
• Partner with engineering leads and product managers to align technology strategy with business goals.
• Work with DevOps to optimize CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code processes.
• Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies, and processes for scalable and high-quality product development.
• Performance & Observability:
• Oversee system performance tuning, reliability, and observability.
• Implement monitoring and logging frameworks (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• Innovation & Industry Awareness:
• Stay updated with emerging technologies, industry trends, and architectural best practices.
• Drive adoption of modern architectural patterns, cloud-native solutions, and event-driven designs.