Principal Engineer - Microservices Architecture (7-8 yrs)

Job Description :

- We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Principal Engineer to join our growing engineering team.

- As a Principal Engineer, you will be responsible for leading the design and architecture of complex, scalable systems, and driving technical strategy across the organization.

- You will work closely with cross-functional teams to define technical direction, build robust and scalable multi-tier web applications, and contribute to cutting-edge solutions.

- This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll have the opportunity to influence the overall architecture and design of products while mentoring and guiding other engineers.

Key Responsibilities :

- Lead the design and implementation of scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems.

- Architect multi-tier web applications, microservices-based architectures, and distributed systems to meet both functional and non-functional requirements.

- Drive the adoption of best practices in software architecture, design patterns, and development methodologies.

- Design systems that scale to handle large volumes of data, users, and transactions, ensuring performance optimization across all layers.

- Implement and oversee strategies for improving the scalability and performance of applications, ensuring they can handle millions of concurrent users, high availability, and fault tolerance.

- Design and maintain scalable database architectures using SQL (e.g, PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g, MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB).

- Optimize database queries and schema to handle large datasets and high traffic environments.

- Lead the design, deployment, and optimization of cloud-native solutions using AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.

- Work on cloud-based architectures, services, and tools, ensuring scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency.

- Evaluate and select the appropriate cloud services and infrastructure to meet system requirements.

- Champion best practices for CI/CD pipelines, ensuring a seamless and efficient deployment process.

- Work with DevOps teams to ensure that systems are fully automated, reliable, and scalable in cloud environments.

- Integrate testing, monitoring, and deployment workflows to improve developer productivity and system stability.

- Provide technical leadership to teams, guiding engineers through the architecture and design process.

- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, helping them grow in their technical careers.

- Foster a collaborative and innovative engineering culture, encouraging knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.

Requirements :

- 10+ years of experience developing software with an Object-Oriented Language (e.g, Java, C#, Python, C++).

- Deep hands-on experience building multi-tier web applications, microservices-based architectures, distributed systems, and familiarity with design patterns (e.g, MVC, Singleton, Factory, Observer).

- Proven experience building scalable systems designed to handle large amounts of traffic and high-volume data processing.

- Experience with designing fault-tolerant, highly available, and distributed systems.

- In-depth experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB).

- Experience in database modeling, query optimization, and performance tuning.

- Expertise in cloud technologies, with experience working in AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.

- Familiarity with cloud-native patterns, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and serverless architectures.

- Extensive experience in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab, or AWS CodePipeline.

- Understanding of infrastructure as code (e.g , Terraform, CloudFormation) and automation tools.

- Hands-on experience designing and deploying microservices using REST, GraphQL, gRPC, or similar APIs.

- Experience with containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes for orchestrating microservices