Principal Engineer, Dutient Labs (Founding Team) Remote, India | Full-time | Reports to Founders

4+ years of backend/infra experience

Who We Are
Dutient Labs is building Dutro, a multi-tenant data privacy and compliance platform (DPO-as-a-service) for the modern enterprise. We're a small, founder-led team moving rapid on real infrastructure: microservices on OCI/Kubernetes, Keycloak-based enterprise SSO, AI-native compliance tooling, and a product that's live with customers.
We're backed by domain expertise at the intersection of global data privacy law (DPDPA, GDPR) and AI governance.
We're at the stage where the next hire shapes the technical DNA of the company, not just the codebase.

The Role
We're hiring a Principal Engineer to own the backend and infrastructure of Dutro end-to-end. This is a founding team role. You'll have a seat at the table on architecture decisions, work directly with the founders, and have meaningful equity via ESOPs.
We're not looking for a senior contributor who executes well on scoped tickets. We want someone who sees what's missing,



figures out what needs to happen, and drives it to done.

Frontend/UI is out of scope for this role.

What You'll Own
Backend services: auth, ingestor, chatbot, and workspace services built on Node/TypeScript, Postgres (Prisma), MongoDB, and Fastify
Cloud and infra: OCI (OKE/Kubernetes), GitOps deployments via FluxCD, Vault-based secrets management, bastion-gated access
Identity and security: enterprise SSO via Keycloak (OIDC/SAML), RBAC, audit logging, and the judgment to know where shortcuts are unacceptable
Architecture and migrations: setting direction, reviewing critical changes, and raising the technical bar as the team grows
Product gaps: finding what's broken, undocumented, or not actually working for customers, and fixing it without being told

What We're Looking For
4+ years of backend/infra experience with real end-to-end ownership of a production system, not a contributor on a team someone else

📌 Principal Engineer (India)
🏢 Dutient Labs
📍 India