
Principal Security Engineer · Bengaluru
Ethos · ETHOS LIFE SCIENCES PRIVATE LIMITED
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Designation Offered
Principal Security Engineer
Job Role
Principal
Department
Engineering
Job Type
Fulltime
Salary
1
Experience
6–10 years
Job Location
Bengaluru
Education
Bachelor's Degree
Posted by
ETHOS
Posted On
14 Jul 2026
Valid until
12 Sept 2026
Skillset required
Job Description for Principal Security Engineer
A role-focused description with responsibilities, expectations, and qualifications for this opening.
Principal Security Engineer is a delivery-focused opportunity based in Bengaluru, India.
You’ll lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure systems across cloud platforms and modern application stacks — including AI-powered tooling — guiding both strategic security initiatives and day-to-day security engineering operations. This is a high-impact role that will shape the security posture of our platforms and development practices, working across engineering, DevOps, architecture, and compliance teams.
Key Responsibilities
- You’ll lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure systems across cloud platforms and modern application stacks — including AI-powered tooling — guiding both strategic security initiatives and day-to-day security engineering operations
- This is a high-impact role that will shape the security posture of our platforms and development practices, working across engineering, DevOps, architecture, and compliance teams
- Responsibilities Core Security Engineering Design and implement secure architectures for applications, APIs, microservices, and containerized workloads
- Design, build, and improve software systems that support the goals of the Security Engineer function.
- Translate product or business requirements into clean, maintainable technical solutions.
- Write high-quality code with appropriate testing, code review, and documentation discipline.
- Collaborate with product, design, QA, and peer engineers to deliver reliable releases.
- Investigate bugs, performance issues, and production risks with a strong root-cause mindset.
- Improve system reliability, observability, and maintainability through thoughtful engineering decisions.
- Contribute to architecture and implementation discussions with pragmatic technical trade-offs.
- Break down complex work into clear milestones and communicate status transparently.
- Refactor and simplify existing code where it improves long-term velocity and quality.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
- Strong coding fundamentals with attention to reliability, performance, and maintainability.
- Experience working with code reviews, testing practices, and collaborative delivery workflows.
- Ability to break down ambiguous problems into clear technical solutions.
- Comfort partnering with cross-functional teams in iterative product or platform environments.
- Strong debugging, communication, and ownership skills across the software lifecycle.
Applications should be submitted through the listed apply link.
About this opening
Ethos is hiring a Principal in the Engineering team based in Bengaluru.
This role is fulltime, flexible, 6–10 years experience, up to ₹1 per year—matched against UnoJobs' verified employer data.
Skills evaluated for this opening include SDLC, Compliance, APIs, Microservices. Apply directly through UnoJobs to keep your application visible to Ethos without bouncing across multiple sites.
- Role
- Principal
- Department
- Engineering
- Location
- Bengaluru
- Work mode
- Flexible
- Experience
- 6–10 years
- Compensation
- up to ₹1 per year
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