Description

We are looking for an Associate Principal / Principal Engineer with 10+ years of experience to own the architecture of our .NET 8+ microservices and event-driven platform. The ideal candidate combines deep .NET experience with Azure, Kafka, PostgreSQL or SQL Server, Kubernetes, and clean, well-tested design.

Responsibilities
Own backend architecture and technical direction across microservices and event-driven systems
Lead design reviews, set patterns, and keep the bar high on Clean Architecture, DI, testing, and SonarQube gates
Unblock complex work yourself when needed — messaging, data, distributed orchestration, realtime paths
Guide engineers through pairing, reviews, and transparent technical decisions
Shape how services are packaged and run on Kubernetes from a developer viewpoint (not cluster admin)
Drive RAG / vector retrieval design and implementation alongside core APIs and pipelines

Requirements
Robust hands-on experience building ASP.NET Core APIs, background workers,



and message consumers with .NET 8+ and C#, applying Clean Architecture
Robust hands-on experience building event-driven and real-time systems using Apache Kafka, SignalR or WebSockets, and Redis
Solid hands-on experience with PostgreSQL or SQL Server (mandatory)
Experience with Azure DevOps, Docker, and SonarQube, and you build quality into services through structured logging and unit tests
Developer-level Kubernetes experience, including Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, health probes, and resource management, and you can debug with logs and deploy services through CI
Worked with S3-compatible object storage in production services
Designed and built REST and gRPC APIs, defining service boundaries contract-first
Built Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions using vector stores, ingestion pipelines with chunking and embeddings, and query APIs

📌 Associate Principal / Principal Engineer Net + Azure + Ai Kerala (India)
🏢 QBurst
📍 India