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Principal Software Engineer (workflow / platform)

Cognite - AI for Industry · India (Bengaluru)

Posted 9 days ago

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This role has been open
9 days
Cognite - AI for Industry's roles stay open a median of 43 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of Cognite - AI for Industry's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Cognite - AI for Industry
high
23 stale, 1 reposted of 48 open
Hiring momentum
79 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-09-17

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About this role

As a Principal Software Engineer at Cognite, you will focus on building high-performance distributed systems and addressing data infrastructure challenges for Fortune 500 companies. Your responsibilities will include designing and operating a serverless execution engine, ensuring platform reliability, architecting for scalability, and defining API architectures. You will also implement observability practices and champion CI/CD processes to enhance the platform's performance and efficiency.

Our read on this posting3.0out of 5
benefits
1/5
freshness
4/5
career value
5/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

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What you need

  • 10+ years of Engineering experience
  • Proven track record building and operating production backend services at scale
  • Deep mastery of JVM languages (Kotlin preferred, Java acceptable)
  • Proficiency in Python (FastAPI)
  • Experience with distributed systems patterns and cloud-native service design (Kubernetes, Azure, GCP, AWS, Private cloud)
  • Hands-on experience with workflow engines (Conductor, Apache Airflow, or equivalent)

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with industrial knowledge graph construction, entity resolution, or NLP/CV pipelines
  • Familiarity with React or TypeScript for developer tooling
  • Experience in building and extending platform primitives for ML workload support
  • Experience with contextualisation pipelines for ML workflows
  • Familiarity with serving or storing vector embeddings for semantic search

Worth weighing

  • No salary listed
  • The role requires a strong background in both backend services and cloud-native design, which may not appeal to all candidates
  • The focus on high-performance distributed systems and AI may require a steep learning curve for those without relevant experience

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