Principal Software Engineer at Digital.ai in Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN

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

What you will bring:

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.

Why Digital.ai?

Digital.ai offers phenomenal benefits such as:

• Competitive salary with performance-based incentives
• Mobile & Internet Reimbursement – INR 1500 per month
• Medical Insurance for Employee and their family members including Parents / In-laws
• Personal Accident Insurance & Term Life Insurance for Employee
• 42 Days Leave in a Calendar Year, 5 Days Bereavement, & 1 Day Work Anniversary
• Paternity Leave – 10 working days
• Maternity Leave – per statutory requirements (26 Weeks)
• Long Service Award
• Unlimited access to continuous learning and professional development with TalentLMS
• Opportunity to work with a diverse global team

All are welcome to apply. We maintain compliance with federal, state, and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of age, race, color, gender, identity, gender expression, sex, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, religion, physical or mental ability, medical condition, sexual orientation, marital status, citizenship status, protected military or veteran status, and all other protected classifications. We welcome everyone and believe that diversity is the foundation of innovation.

For individuals with disabilities who would like to request accommodation, please advise us within your job application or cover letter.

FRAUD PREVENTION ALERT: please note that Digital.ai does not use third party recruiters. In our efforts to protect you against impersonation please check the email address or if you are contacted by an unfamiliar/third party requesting please reach out directly to Digital.ai.