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Principal Software Engineering Manager

India, Karnataka, Bangalore💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-21 → 2026-09-25

Core

Leads identification of dependencies and design documents for products, applications, services, or platforms; mentors engineers to produce extensible code; drives project and release plans across multiple groups.

Role type

Principal Software Engineering Manager (IC + Management)

Builds

SaaS applications, high-scale transactional and data platform backed systems, large-scale web-based systems

Domain

Software Engineering, SaaS, Distributed Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

C/C++/Java, building and deploying SaaS applications, building high-scale transactional and data platform backed systems from scratch, data structures, algorithms, multi-threaded programming, distributed computing concepts, people management, stakeholder influence, strategic vision

Preferred skills

Proactive knowledge seeking, adaptability to new trends, working autonomously, creating long-term vision

Technologies

C, C++, C#, Java

Responsibilities

Partner with stakeholders to determine user requirements, lead identification of dependencies and development of design documents, mentor engineers to produce extensible and maintainable code, drive multiple group's project plans and release plans, act as Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and monitor system/product/service for degradation, seek new knowledge to improve availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with management responsibilities

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