Principal Software Engineer

Overview

Are you ready to work at a fast-growing company where you can make a difference? Boomi aims to make the world a better place by connecting everyone to everything, anywhere. Our award-winning, intelligent integration and automation platform helps organizations power the future of business. At Boomi, you’ll work with world-class people and industry-leading technology. We hire trailblazers with an entrepreneurial spirit who can solve challenging problems, make a real impact, and want to be part of building something big. If this sounds like a good fit for you, check out boomi.com or visit our Boomi Careers page to learn more.

Principal Software Engineer – Backend

Location - Bangalore _Hybrid

## Are you ready to build scalable backend systems that power critical business workflows?

We are a fast-growing engineering team building highly scalable backend services, orchestration platforms, and data pipelines that integrate complex enterprise systems. Our platform processes large-scale data flows, manages schema evolution, and ensures reliable cloud-native deployments.

We are looking for a **Principal Software Engineer – Backend** who thrives on solving deep architectural challenges, improving system reliability, and elevating engineering standards across teams. This is a high-impact technical leadership role where you will shape backend architecture, mentor senior engineers, and drive long-term technical strategy.

If you enjoy building distributed systems, designing scalable architectures, and solving real-world data and reliability problems — we’d love to talk to you.

# Position Overview

We are seeking a **Principal Software Engineer (Backend)** with 10+ years of experience in backend and distributed systems development. The ideal candidate has strong experience in cloud-native architectures, large-scale data systems, and platform reliability engineering.

This role will be responsible for defining backend architecture standards, driving system scalability and resilience, and mentoring engineers across the organization.

# Key Responsibilities

## Backend Architecture & System Design

• Design and evolve scalable, fault-tolerant backend services and distributed systems.
• Define and enforce backend architecture standards, coding guidelines, and best practices.
• Lead design of orchestration services, data pipelines, and integration systems.
• Drive strategies for schema governance, data contracts, and backward compatibility.
• Ensure systems are resilient, observable, and optimized for performance.
  
  

## Technical Leadership

• Act as a backend technical authority across teams.
• Lead complex architectural decisions and cross-team initiatives.
• Conduct deep design reviews and code reviews.
• Mentor senior engineers and foster engineering excellence.
• Drive technical simplification and long-term maintainability.
  
  

## Cloud-Native & DevOps Collaboration

• Design and operate backend services in AWS environments (ECS, S3, IAM, networking, etc.).
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and release automation.
• Partner with DevOps to enhance monitoring, logging, and observability.
• Lead reliability improvements (incident reduction, root cause analysis, SLOs).
  
  

## Data & Platform Engineering

• Design scalable data ingestion and transformation pipelines.
• Address challenges like schema drift, large dataset handling, and performance optimization.
• Implement efficient storage and processing strategies for high-volume systems.
• Drive best practices around versioning, migrations, and backward compatibility.
  
  

# Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Proven experience at Staff or Principal level in product or platform teams.
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale.
  
  

# Core Technical Skills

• Strong expertise in one or more backend languages (Python/ Java / Go).
• Deep understanding of system design, concurrency, and performance optimization.
• Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithmic thinking applied to real systems.
• Experience with REST APIs, event-driven architecture, and microservices.
• Strong debugging and production incident management skills.
  
  

# Cloud & DevOps

• Hands-on experience with AWS-hosted applications.
• Experience with containerized deployments (ECS/Kubernetes).
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and release automation.
• Experience with logging, tracing, and monitoring systems.
  
  

# Preferred Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Python programming for backend systems, data processing, or platform development
• Experience designing scalable data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, and distributed data processing systems.
• Familiarity with event streaming systems (Kafka or similar).
• Experience improving engineering productivity and developer experience.
• Hands-on experience with modern cloud data warehouse platforms such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks.
• Experience in iPaaS product environments.
• Familiarity with data modeling, query optimization, and performance tuning in large-scale environments
  
  

# What This Role Achieves

• Establishes a scalable and resilient backend foundation.
• Reduces production incidents and improves system reliability.
• Enables predictable, high-confidence releases.
• Drives long-term architectural clarity and simplification.
• Elevates backend engineering standards across the organization.
• Mentors and develops strong senior engineers into future technical leaders.
  
  

# Culture & Inclusion

We believe diverse teams build better systems. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply — even if you don’t meet every qualification listed. We value potential, curiosity, and engineering ownership.

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Be Bold. Be You. Be Boomi. We take pride in our culture and core values and are committed to being a place where everyone can be their true, authentic self. Our team members are our most valuable resources, and we look for and encourage diversity in backgrounds, thoughts, life experiences, knowledge, and capabilities.

All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications.

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