Principal Software Engineer | Santa Clara, CA Office

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We are looking for an exceptional Principal Engineer (L8) to lead the architecture and development of next-generation cloud-native services and platform infrastructure powering large-scale SaaS and multi-cloud environments.

In this role, you will drive the technical vision and architecture for multi-tenant services running across various clouds like AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle Cloud (OCI). You will partner with senior engineering leaders to design highly scalable, resilient, and secure cloud services that enable product teams to build and operate software efficiently on a massive scale.

This is a highly strategic role for a technologist who thrives on solving complex distributed systems problems and shaping the future of cloud-native platforms.

• Define and drive the architecture and technical roadmap for cloud-native platform services.
• Lead the design of large-scale, multi-tenant distributed systems running as managed cloud services.
• Provide deep technical leadership across engineering teams and influence architecture decisions across the organization.
• Mentor senior and staff engineers and raise the technical bar across the engineering organization.

• Architect and build cloud native platforms across compute, storage, networking, and data, for high availability, performance, with multi-tenant isolation, fault containment and resilience.
• Design microservices and event-driven architectures using service mesh, API gateways, and managed cloud services.
• Develop platforms that enable self-service deployment, Git Ops, and infrastructure as code
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• Drive best practices for end-to-end production ownership
  , failure-domain design, disaster recovery, safe fleet-wide upgrades and rollouts, automation, and reducing operational toil
• Design solutions that run seamlessly across multiple clouds with trade-offs between common abstractions and cloud-specific capabilities to optimize cost, performance, reliability and operational efficiency.
• Lead adoption of serverless, managed data services, and cloud-native storage and networking
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• Drive cloud cost efficiency (Fin Ops), performance, and scalability across the platform.
• Define cloud security and compliance architecture: identity, encryption, network isolation, and zero trust.

• Partner with product, security, SRE, and infrastructure teams to deliver highly scalable and reliable services.
• Influence engineering strategy and participate in technical reviews and architecture governance
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• Evaluate emerging technologies and drive innovation across the cloud-native ecosystem.

• 15+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems
  , including 5+ years on public cloud.
• Deep expertise in containers and orchestration like Kubernetes
• Strong experience designing cloud-native, multi-tenant SaaS architectures on public cloud.
• Hands-on experience designing highly scalable microservices…