Principal Engineer (NodeJS/Python) - Bengaluru
ClanX (company site, opens in a new tab)8+ yrsBengaluruOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 30–55 LPA
Posted 14h ago
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About This Role
- Own core system architecture focusing on tenant isolation, data models, distributed processing, and correctness.
- Design and manage high-volume ingestion, processing, search, analytics, and AI workloads with responsibility for service boundaries, APIs, storage, caching, and asynchronous processing.
- Lead architectural decision records, handle escalations on production issues, and collaborate closely with Site Reliability Engineers and senior tech leads.
Minimum Requirements
- 8+ years experience building and operating production systems with continued responsibility post-launch.
- Deep hands-on expertise in distributed systems, PostgreSQL relational data modeling, production-scale system design, and enterprise security requirements.
- Experience with or strong fundamentals in cloud architecture (preferably GCP, Kubernetes), Node.js/TypeScript and Python backend development.
- Work Location: Bengaluru (in-office). Notice period: Not explicitly mentioned in the JD.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Senior engineer comfortable working as an individual contributor owning architecture and correctness without direct reports.
- Experience designing complex, high-availability distributed systems with multi-tenant data isolation and fault tolerance.
- Able to articulate and defend architectural decisions with evidence and work collaboratively at the senior leadership level including founders and Heads of Engineering.