Principal software engineer

Job Title : Principal Software Engineer

Experience : 15-20 Years

Location : Pune

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead initiatives to improve code quality, reduce cloud costs, boost automation, and advance AWS cloud maturity across the Mobility & Convenience and Pulse tech portfolio.
• Establish and embed software engineering best practices to ensure scalable, high-quality, and maintainable solutions across teams.
• Define and promote SRE principles, guiding teams in best practices for observability, incident management, automation, and reliability engineering.
• Drive cloud cost optimization, enhance cloud-native engineering practices, and ensure effective AWS usage for optimal performance and efficiency.
• Collaborate with architecture and delivery teams to define technical guardrails, choose appropriate engineering tools, and establish a consistent, reusable development framework.
• Promote and implement CI/CD enhancements, test automation, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) to speed up software delivery while ensuring quality and stability.
• Provide technical leadership, share best practices, and mentor engineers to foster a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies, engineering practices, and cloud trends to keep the organization innovative and competitive.

Requisites:

• Expert in the ability to adapt to new technologies and processes, and be able to work independently and as part of a team
• You should be able to engage and influence others to collect requirements, describe what you're doing, work through problems, and find productive solutions
• Self-starter, able to handle ambiguity, navigate uncertainty, identify risks, and find the right people and tools to get the job done
• Expert in writing secure, stable, testable, and maintainable code with minimal defects
• Expert in software engineering practices & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operations
• Expert in designing and building complex software systems end-to-end which have been optimally delivered and operated in production. You should understand security and privacy best practices as well as how to properly monitor, log, and alarm production systems
• Possess a passion for mentoring and coaching engineers in both technical and soft skills
• Bring a product-centric mindset to understand business needs, combined with strong technical and interpersonal skills to collaboratively design scalable, effective engineering solutions.
• Comfortable working in a loosely coupled, yet tightly aligned environment focused on a shared vision.