# Principal Architect

**Company:** [6sense](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/6sense)
**Location:** Bengaluru, India
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Experience:** 12+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, API Design, Data Modeling, AWS, Azure, GCP, DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure As Code, Docker, Kubernetes, AI/ML, Big Data
**Posted:** 2026-08-13

> Owns the architecture and long-term technical strategy for large-scale, distributed cloud systems, guiding cross-functional teams toward scalable, resilient, secure, and future-ready platforms. Requires 12+ years of software engineering experience and strong expertise in cloud architecture, distributed systems, and technical leadership.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own the overall system architecture across multiple domains, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
- Define and drive the long-term architectural vision and technical roadmap aligned with business goals.
- Design and review high-level system designs, data flows, integration patterns, and technology choices.
- Act as a technical authority for complex architectural decisions, trade-offs, and design reviews.
- Partner with Principal Engineers, Engineering Managers, and Product Managers to translate business requirements into robust architectural solutions.
- Establish and evolve architecture standards, design principles, and best practices across teams.
- Identify architectural risks and proactively drive mitigation strategies.
- Enable teams through hands-on guidance, reference architectures, and design frameworks rather than day-to-day coding ownership.
- Drive adoption of microservices, event-driven systems, cloud-native patterns, and data platforms.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and tools, guiding adoption where they create long-term value.
- Support performance optimization, system resiliency, cost optimization, and platform modernization initiatives.
- Participate in technical leadership forums, architecture councils, and senior technical reviews.
- Contribute to hiring, mentor senior engineers, and shape the engineering culture.

## Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, with significant focus on system architecture and design.
- Proven experience designing and evolving large-scale, distributed, cloud-based systems.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, scalability, fault tolerance, microservices, event-driven architectures, API design, data modeling, and integration patterns.
- Strong experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Ability to influence without authority and drive alignment across multiple teams.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex architectural concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with data-intensive, AI/ML, or big-data platforms.
- Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and cloud cost optimization.
- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Prior experience in a Principal Architect, Staff Architect, or equivalent technical leadership role.
- Experience working in fast-scaling SaaS or enterprise platforms.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Health coverage.
- Paid parental leave.
- Paid time off and holidays.
- Quarterly self-care days off.
- Stock options.
- Equipment and support for working from home or in an office.
- Learning and development initiatives, including LinkedIn Learning access.
- Wellness education sessions and employee resource group events.

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