Principal Software Engineer - Python @ Clarivate

About You (Skills Experience Required)

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum 10 years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong backend and system design focus.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Python in production environments.
• Strong experience designing and operating distributed systems and microservices architectures.
• Proven expertise with AWS and cloud-native system design.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor engineers.
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.

It would be great, if you alsohave:

• Experience with large-scale data processing systems and/or data-intensive platforms.
• Experience designing highly available, fault-tolerant systems handling high throughput.
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker), orchestration (ECS/EKS), and infrastructure as code (Terraform/CloudFormation).

What will you be doing in this role

• Lead the design and architecture of complex, large-scale software systems, with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Drive architectural reviews and design discussions, balancing short-term delivery with long-term technical health.
• Remain deeply hands-on, contributing high-quality production code primarily in Python.
• Design and implement backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and integrations in a cloud-native environment.
• Architect and build solutions on AWS, leveraging services such as ECS/EKS, EC2, S3, RDS/Aurora, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch, and related tooling.
• Define best practices for CI/CD, infrastructure automation, configuration management, and monitoring.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across multiple teams.
• Collaborate closely with Product Management, QA, UX, Data, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Participate in planning activities, providing technical estimates, risk assessment, and architectural guidance.