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Principal Engineer (L5)

  • Remote, India
  • Lead
  • Posted 2 days ago
In one line

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

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Yes. The posting lists Principal Engineer (L5) as a remote role for candidates in India.

What does this job pay?

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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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