Principal Application Software · Bengaluru

Principal Application Software Engineer - Cloud Performance and Scalability is a delivery-focused opportunity based in Bengaluru, India.

Your role covers all software development lifecycle stages from a performance perspective: architectural and design reviews, benchmarking, sizing, and resolving production performance issues to maximize customer satisfaction and success. Youll champion service reliability and efficiency, manage system changes, monitor infrastructure, respond to incidents, and plan capacity across entire cloud service ecosystems.

Key Responsibilities

• Your role covers all software development lifecycle stages from a performance perspective: architectural and design reviews, benchmarking, sizing, and resolving production performance issues to maximize customer satisfaction and success
• Youll champion service reliability and efficiency, manage system changes, monitor infrastructure, respond to incidents, and plan capacity across entire cloud service ecosystems
• You will own significant projects/services, establish your influence within the team, act as a subject matter expert, and contribute to operational tooling and process improvements
• Design, build, and improve software systems that support the goals of the Application Software Engineer - Cloud Performance and Scalability 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.