Principal Engineer – AI-Native Engineering Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Assemble and guide a compact, highly independent engineering team that includes seasoned technical leaders, developers, and AI coding agents.

• Take ownership of technical architecture, design choices, implementation strategies, and delivery results.

• Convert business goals and product requirements into effective technical solutions.

• Balance the aspects of delivery speed, reliability, security, scalability, and maintainability.

• Set engineering standards, architectural frameworks, coding guidelines, and documentation protocols.

• Utilize Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and other AI engineering tools throughout the development lifecycle.

• Create AI-assisted workflows for requirements analysis, code generation, testing, debugging, refactoring, code review, and documentation.

• Break down tasks into manageable units for independent and parallel execution by AI agents.

• Provide production-ready solutions from problem identification through deployment and operational support.

• Collaborate with business stakeholders, product owners, users, and engineering teams.

• Implement observability, deployment automation, rollback procedures, and operational safeguards.

• Define quality strategies that encompass automated testing, code reviews, integration testing, and production validation.

• Set guidelines for AI access to source code, credentials, production systems, customer data, and sensitive resources.

• Mentor two junior engineers through pairing, code reviews, design discussions, and progressively challenging tasks.

• Disseminate successful AI engineering practices throughout the wider engineering organization.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive professional software engineering experience, typically 8+ years, with proven technical leadership suitable for a Principal or Staff+ engineer role.

• Strong skills in software design and architecture.

• Proven track record of delivering and operating production software from start to finish.

• Proficient programming skills in at least one primary technology stack, with the capability to work across different application layers.

• In-depth knowledge of testing strategies, CI/CD, version control, observability, application security, and production troubleshooting.

• Hands-on experience using AI coding agents like Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, or similar tools in real engineering workflows.

• Ability to decompose ambiguous business challenges into clearly defined technical tasks and independently drive them to completion.

• Experience in software architecture, technical leadership, production delivery, and operational support.

• Experience in building or leading small, autonomous, cross-functional engineering teams.

• Familiarity with agentic coding workflows, parallel AI task execution, repository-level instructions, and automated validation pipelines.

• Experience in establishing internal developer platforms, reusable engineering templates, or AI-enhanced development infrastructure.

• Proven ability to enhance delivery lead times, software quality, operational reliability, or engineering productivity through measurable improvements.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer.

• Workplace accommodations available upon request.