We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer with deep experience in distributed networking systems and routing control-plane development. This role will define and evolve core networking intelligence for our platform including routing logic, policy orchestration, state synchronization, and multi-cloud connectivity behavior.

Youll operate as a hands-on technical leader, driving architectural direction, mentoring engineers, and ensuring that our networking control-plane is scalable, resilient, and operationally transparent across global environments.

What Youll Do

- Design and develop routing control-plane services, including route computation, convergence handling, topology abstraction, configuration modeling, and distributed reconciliation logic.
- Build and evolve networking intelligence for service-to-service routing, connectivity policies, traffic segmentation, and cross-region/multi-tenant behavior.
- Define system architecture supporting high availability, deterministic failover, scale-out routing state distribution, and consistent configuration propagation across clusters and sites.
- Lead design reviews, influence engineering patterns, and ensure correctness, observability, and operational readiness of networking components.
- Develop testing strategies for route scale, convergence timing, configuration drift, and failure simulation under realistic networking conditions.
- Build tooling for debuggability, policy traceability, routing event visibility, and operational workflows used in production environments.
- Partner with product, platform, and cloud networking teams to ensure alignment with AWS, Azure, and GCP networking primitives including routing boundaries, private connectivity, service routing,



and hybrid/cloud edge patterns.
- Mentor teams and drive engineering excellence in networking, distributed systems, and cloud-native design.

What You Bring
- Strong hands-on experience building networking systems with a focus on routing logic, distributed state management, or networking control-plane development.
- Practical experience with one or more advanced networking concepts such as: route policy frameworks, peering models, routing state machines, L3VPNs, EVPN-style overlays, or distributed topology management. (Experience may include open-source stacks, commercial routers, SDN controllers, or cloud networking platforms.)
- Solid understanding of distributed system fundamentals including eventual consistency, consensus models (e.g., Raft), cluster coordination, and state synchronization patterns is a strong plus
- Experience with cloud-native networking (Kubernetes networking, service routing, intent-based networking, or large-scale multi-cloud connectivity models).
- Strong Linux fundamentals including namespaces, networking internals, and debugging of runtime behavior in distributed systems.
- Proven track record driving architecture, improving platform reliability, and mentoring engineering teams.
- Robust analytical and debugging skills, especially in scenarios involving dynamic routing behavior, distributed failures, or configuration-driven networking logic.

Qualifications
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on networking control-plane development, distributed networking systems, SDN, or cloud network orchestration.
- Bachelors or Masters Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent hands-on industry experience.

📌 Principal Software Development Engineer (Bengaluru)
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📍 Bengaluru