Infineon
Principal Engineer at Infineon in Bangalore BTP
Job Description
Principal Engineer
Location: Bangalore BTP
We are seeking an experienced Cloud Architect with deep expertise in AWS and a strong hands-on software development background. This role combines cloud architecture with active engineering, requiring the ability to design, build, and deliver scalable cloud-native solutions.
The ideal candidate is a pragmatic, delivery-focused professional who can translate architectural designs into production-ready systems while actively contributing to development. They should possess a strong balance of technical leadership and hands-on coding skills, driving best practices, mentoring engineering teams, and ensuring successful delivery of high-quality cloud solutions.
Your role
Key responsibilities in your new role:
- Define and own end-to-end cloud architecture for large-scale distributed systems on AWS.
- Design microservices-based architectures, API-driven platforms, and event-driven systems.
- Ensure solutions meet scalability, reliability, security, and cost-efficiency requirements.
- Establish reference architectures, design patterns, and best practices.
- Contribute to end-to-end development and delivery of solutions Hands-on Development
- Actively develop backend services using Node.js - Build and maintain REST APIs and microservices
- Write clean, maintainable, and testable code using TDD practices - Perform code reviews and guide teams on best practices
Your profile
Qualifications and skills to help you succeed
- 10-15+ years of software engineering experience, including 6-10+ years of hands-on AWS architecture and development expertise.
- Strong experience in AWS, Node.js, Microservices, REST APIs, Distributed Systems, Cloud-Native Architectures, and Event-Driven Design.
- Proven ability to design and deliver scalable, secure, highly available, and enterprise-grade cloud solutions.
- Design, develop, and deploy cloud-native applications, backend services, microservices, and RESTful APIs on AWS.
- Architect and optimize distributed systems using AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, EKS, ECR, IoT Core, CloudWatch, and Bedrock.
- Build API-first and microservices-based platforms with a focus on scalability, performance, reliability, and maintainability.
- Contribute extensively to hands-on development (60-70%) while providing architecture, design, and technical leadership (30-40%).
- Drive engineering excellence through TDD, code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and modern software development practices.
- Establish architecture standards, reusable design patterns, governance frameworks, monitoring strategies, and cloud cost optimization practices.
- Implement secure cloud solutions using IAM, encryption, compliance controls, network security, and industry best practices.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD, Kubernetes/EKS, containerization, observability, monitoring, and DevOps integration.
- Collaborate closely with engineering, product, architecture, and DevOps teams to deliver high-quality cloud solutions.
- Provide technical mentorship and guidance on AWS, cloud-native development, microservices, and distributed system architecture.
- Experience with IoT platforms, connected devices, AWS Bedrock, Generative AI/LLM applications, and performance optimization is highly desirable.
- Strong hands-on engineer with a solution-oriented mindset, capable of seamlessly transitioning between architecture, development, and deployment.
- Passionate about building production-grade cloud platforms and driving successful solution delivery as a Principal Engineer-level individual contributor.
#WeAreIn for driving decarbonization and digitalization.
As a global leader in semiconductor solutions in power systems and IoT, Infineon enables game-changing solutions for green and efficient energy, clean and safe mobility, as well as smart and secure IoT. Together, we drive innovation and customer success, while caring for our people and empowering them to reach ambitious goals. Be a part of making life easier, safer and greener.
Are you in?
We are on a journey to create the best Infineon for everyone.
We strive to create the best Infineon for everyone by embracing diversity and inclusion. We welcome applicants for who they are and offer a workplace built on trust, openness, respect and equal opportunity.
Our hiring decisions are based on skills and experience. Even if you don’t meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply.
Please let your recruiter know if you need any accommodations during the interview process.
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Anand Rawal