Principal Engineer

Condé Nast is one of the worlds most renowned media publishing companies creating and distributing every type of media today spanning print and digital publishing in all formats. With a portfolio of some of todays most influential brands the company continues to grow its audience through a global operational and content infrastructure across its 12 owned and operated markets. Headquartered in New York City the companys owned and operated markets include China France Germany India Italy Japan Mexico & Latin America Spain Taiwan UAE/Dubai the U.K. and the U.S. with additional local license partners in over twenty additional markets across the globe. Lead brands include Vogue The New Yorker GQ Architectural Digest Condé Nast Traveler Vanity Fair Wired Allure Ars Technica Bon Appétit House & Garden Pitchfork Tatler and Vogue Business.

Location:

Bengaluru KA

About The Role:

You are the connective tissue across our Engineering function. Owning the end-to-end technical design of a domain ensuring multiple sub-domains and systems form a coherent ecosystem. This entails translating business ambition and product vision and combining it with technical execution to create practical and scalable and AI-native end-to-end solutions that deliver real outcomes.

What youll do

With a specific focus across domains you unite expertise with architectural vision and make the complex simple. You ensure technical solutions - both the what and the how are accomplished across the technology ecosystem with AI-assisted development embedded as a first-class practice across the teams you influence.

Working collaboratively is second nature - you guide key decisions negotiate trade-offs and oversee execution; ensuring every solution strengthens our product vision. In short you make ambition buildable and strategy actionable! You bring architecture into product planning early not as a reviewer at the end but as a co-designer from the start.

Youll partner with

• Peer Solution Architects and Engineering Directors to align architecture with business strategy and enable teams to move faster with confidence.

• Product leaders business stakeholders Staff Engineers Engineering VPs and Directors and external thought leaders

About you:

• Proven track record of delivering large-scale solutions across multiple geographies

• You bring context clarity and creativity; shape designs that are both strategically sound and practically executable and that account for the evolving capabilities of AI-assisted development tooling

• The ultimate problem solver and business partner; you possess excellent business acumen to spot both the solution and the opportunity.

• Ability to see the bigger picture across the whole technology ecosystem.

• First class communication skills to convey complex architectural decisions in a clear and concise manner so engineering teams product leaders and business stakeholders all understand what is to be built and why

• Always one-step ahead - you actively shape how AI-native development practices evolve within the organisation not just adopt them

Desired Skills and Experience:

• 15 years of experience in software engineering building software products at scale with at least 3 years as a Tech Lead Staff Engineer or Architect responsible for defining and delivering technology solutions across complex domains

• Working experience of working on one or more of Advertising Subscriptions and Commerce domains would be a PLUS.

• Expert fluency in at least 2 programing languages including Python NodeJS; working knowledge of AI code generation tools (Codex/Claude Code/Cursor/GitHub Copilot/ Augment Code) change development workflows and code quality standards

• Good understanding of Agentic AI concepts and hands-on experience working on on Agentic AI projects in production including agent orchestration LLM tool use evaluation frameworks guardrail design and multi-agent pipeline architecture

• Demonstrable experience defining and governing AI-assisted development practices within an engineering organisation including how agentic tooling integrates into CI/CD pipelines code review test automation and production readiness standards

• Experience with cloud native ecosystems(AWS/Azure) with exposure on deployment infrastructure observability security and resilience paradigms

• Strong ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams in Product Management UX and Analytics teams across different geographies and time zones

• Ability to translate highly complex technical requirements into easily digestible and actionable plans

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal and ability to communicate effectively on technology solutions and their business impact

• Ability to coach mentor engineers across levels with the ability to build architectural thinking and AI fluency across the organisation elevating technical capability beyond your immediate team

Why join us

At Condé Nast youll help build the technology behind Vogue GQ Wired The New Yorker and more. Youll work with a global community of creative and technical minds who are redefining what storytelling looks like in the digital age.

We value curiosity collaboration and bold ideas and were looking for someone who loves turning great plans into even greater results.

If you are interested in this opportunity please apply below and we will review your application as soon as possible. You can update your resume or upload a cover letter at any time by accessing your candidate profile.

Condé Nast is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability veteran status age familial status and other legally protected characteristics.