Principal Engineer (NodeJS/Python) - Bengaluru

About the role

A hands-on individual contributor role focused on distributed systems, tenant isolation, reliability, and correctness, working alongside the Head of Engineering with no direct reports. Live2.ai is building an AI-native Social Content & Campaign Intelligence OS for global consumer brands. It helps brands monitor, audit, analyse, and act on intelligence across social content, influencer campaigns, user-generated content, and commerce.

What you'll do

• Own core architecture for tenant isolation, data models, distributed processing, correctness, and traceability
• Design systems for high-volume ingestion, processing, search, analytics, and AI workloads
• Own decisions around service boundaries, APIs, storage, caching, queues, and asynchronous processing
• Co-own architecture decision records, ensuring significant choices have written reasoning and more than one signer
• Set technical standards through design reviews and practical examples

What you need

• 8–14 years in software engineering
• Node.js
• Python
• TypeScript
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Kubernetes
• Any graduate

Good to have

• Docker
• LLMs
• Data modelling
• Operational risk
• GCP
• Elasticsearch

What you get