We're looking for a Principal Engineer with 10+ years of experience (3+ at principal/staff level) and hands-on, production-grade agentic delivery experience — ideally with Claude Code — to set the agentic development standard, fix the testing bottleneck, and embed with teams until they can run it independently. This is a hands-on, in-the-code role, not a methodology handed off from the outside.
Key Responsibilities
Define and document the agentic development lifecycle (intent, spec, implementation, review, test, release) with guardrails at each stage
Design a harness-agnostic control plane: skill authoring, agent/squad definitions, MCP server configuration, right-sized model mapping
Rebuild the testing strategy across in-house and integration-heavy domains to make autonomous merge defensible
Define release gates — what can ship green to production, what still needs human sign-off
Embed inside domain teams (1–5 engineers each), pairing and reviewing on their real roadmap
Leave each team with a named owner, working configuration, and documentation




Define governance for agent-generated changes: secrets handling, audit trails, EU AI Act compliance
Publish monthly delivery metrics: cycle time, change failure rate, test coverage, token spend
Lead a supporting engineering pod and report to the client's Director of Engineering

Required Skills
10+ years building and shipping production software, including 3+ at principal/staff level
Demonstrable agentic delivery experience — real production systems, not pilots or evaluations
Deep hands-on experience with an agentic coding harness (Claude Code preferred), plus familiarity with at least one alternative
Solid test automation and release engineering background
Strength in either back-end services or React, with credible range across both
Cloud-native, event-driven architecture: CI/CD, GitHub Actions, trunk-based branching
Proven ability to influence and drive adoption within an existing engineering organisation
Working fluency

📌 Principal Engineer Agentic AI Development (Gurugram)
🏢 BigStep Technologies
📍 Gurugram