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# Principal Software Engineer - Moveworks

Bangalore, Karnataka, India Full-time Senior individual contributor Software Engineering 

Listed on ServiceNow’s official careers site. Posted September 17, 2026. Check that it is still open and apply there.
[Apply on ServiceNow’s careers site →](https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/ServiceNow/744000150009950-principal-software-engineer-moveworks)

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## Job description

### What you’ll do

Technical Architecture & Strategy
- Define and own the long-term technical architecture, making critical build vs. buy decisions to ensure systems remain resilient as the platform scales 10x

### Platform & Infrastructure
- Design and build core infrastructure services and microservices that serve machine learning, frontend, and platform teams Business Alignment Align technical architecture with business goals, ensuring engineering velocity, system reliability, and infrastructure costs directly support customer acquisition, retention, and time-to-market

### Hands-on Engineering
- Write high-performance, clean, and maintainable production-grade code across the stack (K8s, Python, Golang, Postgres etc.) Cross-functional Execution
- Drive and deliver business-critical engineering outcomes in close collaboration with cross-functional engineering teams

### Engineering Culture
- Mentor senior engineers, champion engineering excellence, and foster a culture of rapid, impact-driven innovation

### Ownership & Initiative
- Identify critical system and business gaps proactively, propose solutions, align stakeholders, and drive execution with a high degree of ownership

## Qualifications

Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools, automating workflows, analyzing AI-driven insights, or exploring AI’s potential impact on the function or industry.

### Experience

15+ years of software engineering experience with a demonstrated progression into Principal or Sr. Staff Engineer capacity at a high-growth tech company or top-tier AI lab Technical Proficiency Strong hands-on coding ability with deep design thinking, capable of driving both code-level execution and system-level architecture decisions.
- Proficiency in any programming language with ability to adapt — K8s, Python, Golang, Postgres and data lakes preferred

### Distributed Systems
- Proven experience in distributed systems — performance, scalability, latency, optimization, and monitoring

### Commercial Mindset
- Demonstrated ability to connect engineering decisions to business outcomes such as latency improvements, driving margin efficiency, and enabling rapid product feature launches High Agency Self-driven with strong ownership, ability to identify system and business gaps, propose solutions, align stakeholders, and execute at startup pace Product & AI Mindset Experience integrating or evaluating AI tools and workflows in engineering processes and decision-making Good to Have Open Source Contributions to major open-source AI or infrastructure projects Startup Experience Prior experience working closely with Product and Growth teams in an early-stage startup environment

## At a glance
- Posted by the employer: Sep 17, 2026
- First seen by OpenNash: Oct 10, 2026
- Last checked: Oct 17, 2026
- Listed for: 30 days
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Employment type: Full-time[Apply on ServiceNow’s careers site →](https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/ServiceNow/744000150009950-principal-software-engineer-moveworks)

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