Required Skills & Experience
- Advanced expertise in backend engineering, distributed systems, and platform architecture.
- Experience designing, building, and scaling complex APIs and enterprise systems.
- Proven ability to modernize legacy applications and mission-critical platforms.
- Solid knowledge of API design, schema management, versioning, validation, authentication, authorization, and observability.
- Experience designing resilient, scalable systems that support high-concurrency workloads.
- Ability to define architectural standards, governance, and best practices across engineering teams.
- Experience shaping technical strategy and influencing cross-functional engineering teams.
- Strong systems-thinking mindset with the ability to assess platform-wide impacts and dependencies.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and leading architectural design reviews.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to balance long-term strategy, business priorities, and delivery needs.

Nice to Have Skills & Experience
- Experience with gRPC,



Protocol Buffers, GraphQL, or similar strongly typed API frameworks.
- Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP), AI orchestration platforms, AI agents, or LLM integrations.
- Experience with event-driven architecture, workflow orchestration, and distributed platforms.
- Experience defining enterprise engineering standards and leading large-scale modernization efforts.
- Experience building observable systems with advanced traffic management and resiliency controls.
- Experience supporting AI-native products or machine-driven integration ecosystems.

Job Description

Insight Global is hiring a Principal AI Engineer to lead the modernization of a global technical solutions company. This person will design, build, and evolve internal AI-powered software platforms that help engineering teams understand, automate, and improve the software development lifecycle. They will build reusable tools, APIs, workflows

📌 Principal AI Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Insight Global
📍 Hyderabad