Principal Software Engineer
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Job Description
Job Title: Principal Software Engineer
Location: Hybrid Islamabad Rawalpindi
Type: Full-Time
Senior Individual Contributor Department: Engineering
Were looking for a Principal Software Engineer to help architect and build complex high-scale systems across AI data and network-focused applications. This is a deeply technical and hands-on role ideal for someone who enjoys solving system-level problems writing high-quality code and shaping architecture without formal management responsibilities.
Youll work alongside strong engineers across backend DevOps and AI teamsbringing clarity to technical decisions and contributing directly to production code.
What Youll Do
Design and develop core backend systems for secure large-scale web applications including authentication access control and network-aware services.
Build and integrate AI-powered services such as agent workflows RAG pipelines and semantic search using vector databases.
Implement and scale data processing pipelines for real-time and batch workloads.
Collaborate with DevOps teams to maintain CI/CD pipelines infrastructure as code and observability.
Contribute high-quality code conduct deep technical reviews and advocate best practices.
What You Bring
6 years of backend or systems engineering experience including large-scale production systems.
Proficiency in Python Go Java or similar backend languages.
Experience designing distributed systems using microservices messaging queues and event-driven architectures.
Familiarity with cloud-native development (AWS/GCP) containers (Docker Kubernetes) and IaC tools (Terraform CDK).
Exposure to secure system design including auth flows and API hardening.
Understanding of data engineering or AI/ML integrations (e.g. RAG systems vector stores) is a plus.
Strong system design skills with the ability to work independently on complex technical challenges.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
