This role is for one of Weekday’s clients

Min Experience: 10+ years
Location: Bengaluru
JobType: full time

We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Software Engineer to serve as a technical authority for critical systems and platform architecture. This role will define and evolve the long-term technical direction of a high-performance, low-latency distributed database and its underlying systems, balancing near-term product delivery with long-term goals around scalability, reliability, performance, and operational efficiency.

The role sits at the intersection of deep technical expertise and organizational influence. You will lead through technical vision, architectural excellence, and mentorship—establishing engineering standards, solving complex cross-system challenges, and aligning technical execution with product and business objectives.

While the role may involve kernel, filesystem, hardware, networking, and low-level I/O concerns, the primary impact will come from shaping systems architecture and technical direction across multiple teams and subsystems.





Requirements

Key Responsibilities
- Define and drive the long-term architecture and technical direction of core systems, particularly across networking, storage, low-level I/O, and hardware interaction.
- Act as a technical authority and escalation point for complex, high-impact systems, scalability, reliability, and performance challenges.
- Lead cross-functional and cross-team technical initiatives spanning multiple subsystems and engineering groups.
- Establish architectural principles, performance standards, engineering practices, and design guidelines across the organization.
- Translate customer and business requirements into durable technical strategies and influence product and engineering roadmaps.
- Guide and review architecture and design for performance-critical systems, ensuring correctness, consistency, scalability, and maintainability.
- Mentor Staff and Senior Staff engineers, helping d

📌 Principal Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Weekday AI
📍 Bengaluru