About the Role

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to shape how our AWS-based SaaS products are built, deployed, and operated. This is a hands-on technical leadership role for an engineer with prior software development experience and deep expertise in AWS, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, automation, and observability.

You will partner with application, platform, product, and security teams to improve the full software delivery lifecycle. You will modernize existing applications by reducing unnecessary coupling and enabling components to be built, tested, released, and deployed independently where the architecture supports it. You will also set technical direction across teams, lead complex modernization initiatives, and mentor engineers in the Bangalore organization.

What You Will Do

DevOps Strategy and Technical Leadership

• Define DevOps and platform engineering standards, reference architectures, delivery patterns, and operational practices.

• Lead cross-team initiatives that improve delivery speed, reliability, security, and maintainability.





• Make and communicate technical decisions that balance modernization, customer impact, and service continuity.

• Mentor engineers, lead knowledge-sharing sessions, and contribute to hiring and technical interviews.

Application Modernization and Software Engineering

• Apply software development experience to understand application architecture, dependencies, build systems, runtime behavior, and operational risks.

• Assess existing applications and reduce tight coupling between components, services, shared libraries, and deployment units where practical.

• Enable components to be built, tested, versioned, and deployed independently

• Improve configuration, secrets handling, health checks, logging, metrics, and graceful startup and shutdown behavior.

• Build automation and engineering tools using a programming or scripting language such as Python, Go, Groovy, or shell.

CI/CD and Developer Experience

📌 Principal Software Engineer Bengaluru
🏢 Cleo (India)
📍 Bengaluru