Principal Engineer- Backend
CodeRabbit3 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Drive technical vision and architecture decisions across multiple teams.
- Design and implement core systems for CodeRabbit’s AI code review platform.
- Solve complex technical challenges affecting product scalability and performance.
- Establish technical standards and best practices with engineering leadership.
- Mentor engineers and help grow the organization’s technical capabilities.
- Contribute to relevant open-source projects.
- Partner with product leadership to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Evaluate new technologies and recommend adoption strategies.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Proven technical leadership on complex, large-scale software systems.
- Deep expertise in at least one programming language and familiarity with multiple others.
- Extensive experience building developer tools, platforms, or infrastructure.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud architecture, and system design patterns.
- Meaningful open-source contributions or maintenance experience.
- Experience mentoring and growing other engineers.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred: experience with static analysis, compilers, programming language theory, code review systems, development workflows, large language models, or developer-tools companies.
- Preferred: published technical content, additional open-source contributions, or an advanced degree in Computer Science or a related field.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, equity, and benefits.
- Professional development opportunities.
- Collaborative and innovative work environment.
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology with real-world impact.
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About CodeRabbit
CodeRabbit builds an AI-powered code review platform for software development teams, integrating with Git hosts, IDEs, and CI to review pull requests and commits, surface issues, and suggest fixes. Founded in 2023 and based in San Francisco, the privately held company is SOC 2 Type 2 and GDPR compliant and lists customers such as The Economist and Life360.