Principal Software Engineer – Platform Engineering
As a Principal Software Engineer on the Platform Engineering team, you will provide shared technical leadership across integration platforms, services, and teams that enable enterprise-scale business capabilities. You are a hands-on engineer who designs, builds, and evolves cloud-first, enterprise-grade integration solutions while influencing standards, patterns, and long-term technical direction across Columbia Sportswear.
You operate with a wide sphere of influence, partnering closely with architects, product leaders, and engineers to solve complex cross-domain problems and raise the overall engineering bar for the organization.

HOW YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE
- Lead the technical design and architecture of enterprise integration services, APIs, and event-driven solutions using cloud PaaS platforms (primarily Microsoft Azure)
- Own and evolve integration standards and patterns, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, maintainable, and observable




- Translate complex business processes into reliable software solutions that support multiple domains across the enterprise
- Operate as a senior technical leader within agile teams, guiding implementation while remaining hands-on with critical code paths
- Mentor and coach engineers across levels, strengthening engineering fundamentals, design thinking, and delivery practices
- Drive adoption of modern DevOps, CI/CD, and automated testing practices across integration services
- Proactively identify technical risks, system gaps, and architectural debt, and lead initiatives to remediate them
- Partner with product owners, business stakeholders, and enterprise architects to communicate updates, inform roadmap decisions and priority, and meet business needs.

YOU ARE
- A technical authority who leads through influence, not position
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous, cross-team problem spaces
- A robust communicator who can articulate technical tradeoffs to both engineering

📌 Principal Engineer Platform (Bengaluru)
🏢 Columbia Sportswear
📍 Bengaluru