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Nerdy

Principal Software Engineer

Nerdy

. Define and drive organization-wide architectural strategy and guardrails .

Posted 10/23/2026full-timeRemote • IndiaLeadWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in architecting scalable systems, leading AI/ML initiatives, and implementing responsible AI practices. Proficient in driving technical direction, mentoring teams, and ensuring high engineering quality through best practices in coding and deployment.

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Architectural StrategyAI/ML ProductionizationService-Oriented ArchitectureCI/CD and Infrastructure as CodeResponsible AI Practices

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Hard Skills
Software EngineeringDistributed SystemsMicroservicesPythonJavaGoTypeScriptData SystemsCI/CDLinux
Soft Skills
Clear CommunicationExecutive PresenceMentoringGrowth MindsetHigh Ownership
Tools & Technologies
AWSKinesisKafkaSparkDynamoDBRedisTerraformCloudFormationCodeDeployCodeBuild
Industry Keywords
Event-Driven ArchitectureResponsible AIPrivacySecurityBias Mitigation

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSCloudDistributed SystemsDynamoDBEC2JavaKafkaLinuxMicroservicesPythonRDBMSRedisSparkTerraformTypeScriptGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Define and drive organization-wide architectural strategy and guardrails
  • Create reference designs and patterns for coherent technical direction
  • Architect and deliver highly scalable cross-cutting systems for live learning, eventing/data pipelines, identity/authentication, and APIs
  • Lead end-to-end AI architecture for LLM/RAG systems, recommendations/ranking, vector search, feature stores, and evaluation loops
  • Productionize ML/LLM solutions with MLOps/LLMOps, versioning, model CI/CD, canary and shadow deployments, monitoring, and drift detection
  • Establish responsible-AI guardrails for privacy, safety, bias, and prompt-injection defense
  • Drive performance, scalability, resiliency, SLOs, and observability
  • Raise engineering quality through hands-on coding, design reviews, documentation, automated testing, and continuous delivery
  • Champion secure-by-default and privacy-by-design practices; lead threat modeling and compliance collaboration
  • Partner with product, data science/ML, design, and engineering leadership on investments, outcomes, and trade-offs
  • Mentor engineers and managers and lead architecture forums/guilds
  • Participate in on-call and incident response/postmortems
  • Drive reliability, cost stewardship, and FinOps

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 10+ years of software engineering experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems
  • 3+ years leading technical direction across multiple teams
  • Expertise in service-oriented and event-driven architectures
  • Experience with microservices for UX and APIs in cloud environments; AWS preferred
  • Strong data systems background in Kinesis/Kafka, Spark/Hive, DynamoDB, Redis, and RDBMS
  • Proficiency in CI/CD and infrastructure as code, including CodeDeploy, CodeBuild, Terraform, or CloudFormation
  • Solid Linux and command-line skills
  • Production AI/ML experience with RAG pipelines, model serving, recommendations/ranking, evaluation, monitoring, and drift/quality management
  • Experience with responsible AI, including privacy, security, safety, bias mitigation, auditability, and AI guardrails
  • Experience with AI-native developer productivity tools and prompt/tool orchestration and evaluation
  • Strong coding fundamentals in one or more of Python, Java, Go, or TypeScript
  • Clear communication and executive presence
  • Familiarity with AWS services including EC2, RDS, Kinesis, and DynamoDB
  • Experience deploying large-scale web applications
  • Ability to learn new languages and technologies quickly
  • Growth mindset and high ownership
  • Understanding and appreciation of Nerdy’s apolitical company focus

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Competitive USD-benchmarked compensation, paid in local currency
  • 100% remote from anywhere in your home country; no relocation required
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Paid official national holidays
  • Free all-inclusive learning membership for the employee and household
  • 1-on-1 tutoring hours and unlimited on-demand classes
  • Access to Nerdy’s learning products and services
  • Access to cutting-edge AI productivity tools
  • Regular training and peer reviews
  • Collaborative culture and team ownership