Role : Principal Backend Engineer
Location : India (remote)
Type : Full time

ROLE OVERVIEW
We are seeking a Principal Backend Engineer to own the scalability, reliability, and architectural evolution of an AI platform as it transitions from a prototype to a production-grade, cloud-native platform on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This is a high-impact, high-ownership role at the intersection of distributed systems engineering, Kubernetes-based platform engineering, and applied AI.

The engineer will be expected to design and operate backend services, platform capabilities, and infrastructure primitives that enable secure, scalable, and reliable AI application development across internal and customer-facing environments.

REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
10+ years of backend engineering experience with robust focus on distributed systems, production-grade platform design, and cloud-native architecture.
Expert-level Python proficiency; deep hands-on experience with FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Pydantic v2, and async/concurrent programming using asyncio, ThreadPoolExecutor,



or equivalent concurrency patterns.
Proven experience designing and operating microservices at scale, including service decomposition, inter-service communication, failure isolation, API contracts, and service ownership models.
Strong PostgreSQL expertise, including schema design, indexing, query optimization, migration management, and multi-tenant isolation using row-level security, schema-per-tenant, or equivalent tenancy patterns.
Hands-on GCP production experience, including Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, Cloud Storage, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud IAM, Secret Manager, Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, and ideally Vertex AI.
Strong Kubernetes experience, preferably with GKE, including workload deployment, services, ingress, autoscaling, config/secrets management, health probes, resource limits, rolling deployments, and production troubleshooting.
Experience with container-b

📌 Principal Backend Engineer (India)
🏢 ALOIS Solutions
📍 India