Principal Architect
Swiggy · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
About the role
Principal Architect to own high-level architecture for Swiggy's ordering, checkout, and fulfillment platforms at massive scale. Senior technical IC role focused on distributed systems, incident response, and cross-team technical leadership.
What you'll do
- Own end-to-end architecture for multi-tenant ordering, checkout, fulfillment
- Act as incident commander for high-severity production issues
- Make cost/performance trade-offs with quantified impact
- Build internal developer platforms and tooling
- Guide applied ML/GenAI architecture
- Define technology vision and communicate to stakeholders
What they're looking for
- 15+ years software engineering and product delivery
- Deep hands-on architecture ownership
- Distributed systems internals (Kafka, NoSQL, Redis, Kubernetes)
- Incident response leadership and RCA discipline
- Excellent data structures and algorithms; Java or Go
- Working fluency with applied ML/GenAI
Key details
- Company
- Swiggy
- Location
- Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Work mode
- On-site
- Seniority
- Lead / Principal / Group
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Role category
- Engineering
- Experience
- 15+ years
- Posted
- 19 Oct 2026
- Source
- jobs.smartrecruiters.com