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 up-to-date 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 (India)
🏢 Columbia Sportswear
📍 India