Principal Engineer (L5)
- Remote, India
- Lead
- Posted 2 days ago
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Principal engineering role on a data pipelines team, setting the technical direction for systems that handle hundreds of thousands of data points per second; remote first.
About the role
The team runs a customer data platform that queries petabytes, and the work centres on distributed design choices where cost, speed and reliability pull against each other.
At a glance
- Pay
- Not stated in the posting
- Remote scope
- Remote, India
- Seniority
- Lead
- Skills
- Distributed systems, Streaming systems, Cloud infrastructure, LLMs, Data pipelines
- Posted
- 2 Nov 2026
- Last checked
- 2 Nov 2026
What you will do
- Set the technical direction for routing across the core data platform and pipelines
- Design fault-tolerant distributed systems in the cloud, learning from past failures
- Lead design decisions and explain the cost, performance and reliability trade-offs to engineers and executives
- Write clear blueprints that keep product managers, architects and engineering teams aligned
- Prototype where AI and LLMs could fix systemic data processing problems
What they look for
- A bachelor's or master's in computer science, engineering or a similar technical field
- 12 or more years of programming experience
- Deep, hard-won work with high-scale messaging and streaming systems and distributed processing engines
How Keywordise applies for you
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Is this a remote job, and where can I work from?
Yes. The posting lists Principal Engineer (L5) as a remote role for candidates in India.
What does this job pay?
The posting does not state a salary, so there is no figure to quote.
What experience is needed?
It is a lead role. The posting asks for: a bachelor's or master's in computer science, engineering or a similar technical field; 12 or more years of programming experience; deep, hard-won work with high-scale messaging and streaming systems and distributed processing engines. Skills it names include Distributed systems, Streaming systems, Cloud infrastructure, LLMs.
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