Principal Software Engineer

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Bengaluru, Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka, IND
In-Office
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Software • Analytics
The Role
The Principal Software Engineer will lead the development of large-scale data and AI platforms, mentor engineers, and collaborate with data science teams to optimize data workflows and ensure system scalability and performance.
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About Digital.ai

Digital.ai is the only AI-powered software delivery platform purpose-built for the enterprise, enabling the world’s largest organizations to build, test, secure, and deliver high-quality software. By unifying AI-driven insights, automation, and security across the software development lifecycle, Digital.ai empowers enterprises to deliver innovation with confidence. Trusted by 5,000 global enterprises, Digital.ai is redefining how enterprises build better software in an AI-driven world. Additional information about Digital.ai can be found at digital.ai and on Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.

About the Role:

This position is an exciting opportunity to join the Predictive Intelligence division of Digital.ai,
a 9-time Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Agile Planning, Digital.ai unifies, secures, and generates predictive insights across the software lifecycle for Global 2000 enterprise customers.

Our mission is to unlock endless digital possibilities by harmonizing the delivery of software. Our vision is to be THE enterprise platform for AI driven software development.

Position Summary

Digital.ai is seeking a Principal Software Engineer with 8-12 years of experience to provide technical leadership in designing and building large-scale data, analytics, and AI/LLM platforms. This role requires deep expertise in data engineering, strong software architecture skills, and the ability to influence technical direction across teams. You will drive platform-level decisions, mentor senior engineers, and enable advanced analytics, ML, and AI use cases.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build and optimize large-scale batch and streaming data pipelines.
  • Implement modern data lake and warehouse solutions using Delta Lake and cloud-native services.
  • Apply best practices in data modelling, ETL/ELT strategies, and schema evolution.
  • Design, implement, and support ML and AI/LLM workflows, including feature engineering, embeddings, vector data, and inference pipelines.
  • Ensure high standards for data quality, observability, performance, and security.
  • Collaborate closely with Data Science and ML teams to support scalable model training and deployment.
  • Participate in design reviews, architectural discussions, and technology evaluations.
  • Mentor senior and junior engineers

Required Qualifications

  • 8-12 years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Deep expertise in software engineering and system design.
  • Strong foundation in data warehousing and data modelling.
  • Hands-on experience with Delta Lake and distributed data processing (Spark/PySpark).
  • Extensive, expert-level proficiency in programming languages such as SQL, Python, and Java.
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
  • Working knowledge of ML workflows and AI/LLM concepts.
  • Experience designing highly available, scalable systems.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

  • Domain knowledge of ITSM & DevOps applications.
  • Familiarity with MLOps concepts such as model monitoring, data drift detection, or automated retraining pipelines.
  • Experience with LLM-based systems, such as embeddings, vector databases, RAG pipelines, and prompt orchestration.
  • Experience designing and operating large-scale, multi-tenant data or AI platforms.
  • Hands-on experience with streaming platforms (Kafka, Flink, Spark Structured Streaming).
  • Experience building ETL/ELT pipelines and data platforms.
  • Familiarity with data governance, lineage, and compliance frameworks.
  • Proven experience driving cross-team technical initiatives and influencing architectural decisions.

Top Skills

AWS
Azure
Cloud-Native Services
Delta Lake
Flink
GCP
Java
Kafka
Pyspark
Python
Spark
SQL
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The Company
HQ: Boston, MA
715 Employees

What We Do

Digital.ai is the intelligent value stream management company that enables Global 5000 enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation initiatives and deliver secure digital products their customers can trust. Digital.ai was formed by bringing together proven technology leaders in business agility, software delivery, application security, continuous testing, and AI-powered analytics into one integrated, intelligent value stream platform. Together, we have more than 50 years of experience providing critical business and technology solutions to over 1,500 companies around the world. The Digital.ai Value Stream Platform seamlessly integrates all the disparate tools and processes across the various value streams, uses data and AI/ML to create connective tissue between them, and provides the real-time, contextual insights required to drive and sustain successful digital transformation. With Digital.ai, enterprises have the visibility they’ve been seeking to deliver value, drive growth, increase profitability, reduce security risk, and improve customer experience.

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