As a Principal Software Engineer within Product Engineering, you will provide technical leadership across multiple teams and systems, driving architecture, design standards, and long-term technical strategy. You will work closely with engineering leadership, product management, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate business goals into scalable, resilient, and future-ready platforms. In this role, you remain hands-on while also influencing system design, mentoring senior engineers, setting engineering best practices, and ensuring consistency and quality across distributed, multi-location teams. You are expected to anticipate technical challenges, guide complex technical decisions, and champion modern technologies, architectural patterns, and design principles.

Responsibilities
Own and evolve the architecture of large-scale, distributed, enterprise-grade SaaS platforms.
Drive technical vision, design principles, and architectural standards across teams.
Lead the design and implementation of complex, high-impact systems and services.
Partner with product, platform,



and engineering leadership to align technical solutions with business objectives.
Review and approve critical technical designs; provide guidance on trade-offs,
scalability, performance, and reliability.
Remain hands-on by contributing to core components, prototypes, and high-risk or high-complexity areas.
Establish and enforce best practices for code quality, testing, security, and operational excellence.
Mentor and guide senior and staff engineers, raising the overall technical bar of the organization.
Promote high standards for availability, scalability, resilience, and delivery
predictability.
Influence Agile execution, release planning, and cross-team dependencies in multiregion environments.

Requirements
10 15+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a solid track record of technical leadership.
Expert-level programming skills in Java, Python, Go, or Rust.
Proven experie

📌 Principal Software Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Uniphore Software Systems
📍 Chennai