Principal/Sr. Software Engineer

Role overview

Principal/Sr. Software Engineer at Cyware

Own the architecture.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for multi-tenant, globally distributed systems that process billions of security events.
• Make the one-way-door calls on data models, service boundaries, and platform primitives Solve the unsolved.
• Take ambiguous, high-stakes problems real-time correlation at petabyte scale, sub-second graph queries, zero-downtime multi-region failover from whiteboard to production Raise the engineering bar.
• Set the standard for design reviews, code quality, observability, and on-call excellence.
• Mentor senior engineers into principal-caliber thinkers.
• Build AI-native.
• Treat LLMs and agents as first-class citizens of the stack both in the product (agentic SOAR, threat reasoning, copilots) and in how we build (AI-assisted development, vibe coding, eval-driven iteration).
• Ship 10x faster without shipping 10x bugs.
• Master the data.
• Model complex security telemetry across relational, document, graph, vector, and time-series stores.
• Tune the queries nobody else can tune Wield Kubernetes like a weapon.
• Design the platform so a 10x customer load is a config change, not a rewrite Be opinionated, not precious.
• Pick the boring tech when it’s right.
• Pick the bleeding edge when it wins.
• Defend both with data.
• Requirements What We Are Looking For 10+ years building production software, with meaningful time as a tech lead, staff, or principal in a high-growth startup or a team that behaves like one Architect’s mindset.
• You zoom from a CRD controller to a customer SLO to a board slide in the same meeting.
• You design for 10x, not for today Deep distributed systems chops.
• Consistency trade-offs, backpressure, idempotency, partitioning, and failure modes are your native language Kubernetes at real scale.
• Operators, multi-cluster, service mesh, cost and performance tuning not just kubectl apply Database depth across paradigms.
• Strong in PostgreSQL or MySQL at scale, plus working mastery of a NoSQL, search (Elastic/OpenSearch), graph (Neo4j/JanusGraph), or vector store.
• You’ve hunted down an N+1 at 3 AM and enjoyed it Modern language fluency.
• Go and/or Python in production; comfortable reading anything.
• Clean, testable, observable code is non-negotiable AI-native engineer.
• You use Claude / Cursor / Copilot / agentic tools daily to outperform engineers who don’t.
• You know where vibe coding shines and where it’s dangerous and you teach the team the difference Cloud-native at heart.
• AWS (or GCP/Azure) in depth IAM, networking, cost, reliability.
• Terraform is muscle memory Security instinct.
• Threat modeling, secure-by-default design, and zero-trust patterns are part of how you think before anyone asks Sharp.
• Fast.
• Hungry.
• You’d rather ship, measure, and iterate than debate.
• You work hard because the problems are worth it not because someone is watching

Employment details

• Location: Bengaluru [karnataka] [India]