Principal Engineer- Backend
CodeRabbit (company site, opens in a new tab)10+ yrsBengaluruHybridDirect career pageEst. 50–90 LPA
Posted 12h ago
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About This Role
- Set technical vision and architecture across multiple teams, establishing engineering standards and translating product needs into technical solutions.
- Design and implement core AI code-review platform systems; address complex scalability and performance challenges.
- Raise organization-wide technical capability through engineer mentorship and contributions to relevant open-source projects.
Minimum Requirements
- Work Experience Required: 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Demonstrated technical leadership on complex, large-scale systems; extensive experience building developer tools, platforms, or infrastructure; and experience mentoring engineers.
- Deep expertise in at least one programming language, familiarity with multiple others, and strong knowledge of distributed systems, cloud architecture, and system design.
- Meaningful open-source contribution or maintenance history; Bachelor’s in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Principal-level engineer who can make architecture decisions across teams and connect technical choices to product and business outcomes.
- Strong fit for developer tooling and engineering infrastructure; experience with code review workflows, static analysis, compilers, programming languages, or LLM applications is preferred.
- Combines deep technical specialization with broad systems thinking and can simplify complex problems; technical writing, talks, or papers are additional shortlist signals.