Principal Architect

Job Profile: Principal Architect Location: Bangalore | Karnataka Years of Experience: 15 - 18 ABOUT THE TEAM & ROLE: As a Principal Architect at Swiggy, you’ll own the high-level architecture of the systems that power food/grocery ordering and delivery for millions of consumers every day - across discovery, checkout, pricing/discounting, assortment, and fulfillment. You’ll own all phases of the development lifecycle, from business requirements through design, development, deployment, and production support, while also being the person the org turns to when a Tier-1 system is in trouble at 2am. You’ll establish the technology vision for your area, demonstrate how to solve deeply complex and ambiguous technical problems, and communicate that vision upward (CTO), inward (peers and the engineering team), and outward (product and business teams). As a Senior Technical Individual Contributor, you will be responsible for: Owning end-to-end architecture for multi-tenant ordering, checkout, and fulfillment platforms across Swiggy, scaling to millions of transactions a day with 99.95%+ uptime while allowing new business lines to be launched safely and rapidly. Owning Tier-1 services serving millions of users daily at 100k+ rps, including being a decisive incident commander for high-severity, cross-team production issues - driving rigorous root-cause analysis and converting fixes into lasting guardrails (regression coverage, safer feature flags, canary practices). Making and defending cost/performance trade-offs with quantified impact (latency, infra cost, throughput) across the stack, not just backend - you’ll treat consumer-facing performance as an architecture problem. Building internal developer platforms and tooling (code-quality gates, self-serve environments, data platforms) that raise engineering leverage across teams, in addition to shipping features. Designing integrations that span organizational or company boundaries under hard external deadlines, balancing user ex