Principal Engineer

Technical skills

• Expertise in microservices, event-driven systems, distributed computing, caching, queueing, and high-throughput data pipelines.
• Strong proficiency across multiple cloud platforms, container orchestration, and managed AI/ML services.
• Backend coding ability in Python, Java, Node.js, or Go, plus practical AI/ML framework experience.
• Experience with DevOps, SRE, MLOps, CI/CD, Terraform or CloudFormation, Docker, Kubernetes, observability, and model monitoring.
• Understanding of secure coding, identity and access management, privacy, accessibility, and compliance.

Leadership and communication

• Ability to lead through influence across engineering, product, design, and executive stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong mentorship and coaching skills and experience growing senior engineers and technical leads.
• Skill with agile development and iterative, customer-centric delivery.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience building agentic AI systems, contributing to open-source projects, or managing hybrid-source software portfolios is preferred.
• Background in workflow orchestration, low-code or no-code platforms, government digital standards, or compliance regimes is preferred.
• Exposure to responsible AI practices, technical presentations, publishing, or industry communities is preferred.
• Cloud architecture or AI engineering certifications are an added advantage.

Working conditions

• The opportunity is based out of AOT's Trivandrum office.
• Occasional travel may be required for meetings, customer engagements, conferences, or knowledge sharing.
• Light on-call rotation may be required to support critical production systems.
• The schedule is Monday to Friday, 40 hours per week, with PST overlap as needed.

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