Senior Principal Software Engineer
Progress Software Corporation19 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own engineering for critical functional and architectural areas of the LoadMaster platform.
- Design, implement, and deliver core features and platform components.
- Serve as the technical authority for complex subsystems and problem areas.
- Drive performance, scalability, security, and maintainability improvements.
- Lead deep problem analysis, proofs of concept, prototypes, and resolution across the stack.
- Guide engineering requirements and architectural impact assessments.
- Provide technical guidance to globally distributed teams and mentor senior engineers.
- Collaborate with product, engineering leadership, and peers on roadmaps and trade-offs.
- Champion high-quality code, reviews, continuous improvement, cross-team standards, tooling, and automation.
Requirements
- Extensive experience delivering complex, high-performance Linux systems.
- Expert C systems programming focused on low-latency TCP/IP networking.
- Deep knowledge of Linux internals, including the networking stack, memory, and kernel-userspace interaction.
- Proven performance engineering experience with profiling, bottleneck analysis, and optimization.
- Strong security background in threat modeling, cryptography, and secure design.
- Advanced Bash and Linux tooling experience for automation and diagnostics.
- Solid understanding of CPU, memory, NUMA, and I/O for optimization.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and leading cross-team technical impact.
- Beneficial qualifications include expertise in authentication, WAF, load balancing, proxy architectures, and TLS; experience with embedded Linux and hardware acceleration; distributed systems experience across cloud or virtualized environments; and observability experience across complex systems.
Benefits
- Competitive remuneration package.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan enrollment.
- 30 days of earned leave and an additional birthday day off.
- Marriage, casual, maternity, paternity, and other leave programs.
- Premium group medical insurance for employees and five dependents, personal accident insurance, and life insurance.
- Professional development reimbursement.
- Interest subsidy on vehicle or personal loans.