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Principal Architect / Scalability Lead (AWS) at MNC with 5000+ employees Ā· Gurugram Ā· 9 - 18 years Ā· ₹30L - ₹70L / yr Ā· Posted 19 Mar 2026

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Principal Architect / Scalability Lead (AWS)

at MNC with 5000+ employees

9 - 18 yrs
₹30L - ₹70L / yr
Gurugram
Skills
skill iconAmazon Web Services (AWS)
skill iconNodeJS (Node.js)
skill iconReact.js
Cloud Computing
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SQL Azure
DevOps

Job Title: Principal Architect / Scalability Lead (AWS)

šŸ“Ā Location:Ā Gurgaon (Hybrid)


šŸ•’Ā Employment Type:Ā Full-Time

Role Overview

We are seeking aĀ Principal Architect / Scalability LeadĀ with deep expertise inĀ AWS and large-scale distributed systemsĀ to architect and scale cloud-native products fromĀ MVP to enterprise scale.

This role demands a senior technical leader who has proven experience designing systems that handleĀ high throughput, large concurrent workloads, andĀ enterprise-grade reliability, while ensuring exceptional end-user experience.

You will work closely with Product, Data Engineering, AI/ML, and Backend teams to define architecture standards, scalability roadmaps, and engineering best practices.

Key Responsibilities

šŸ— Architecture & Scalability Leadership

  • ArchitectĀ highly scalable, resilient, and high-performanceĀ cloud-native systems on AWS.
  • Design distributed systems capable of supportingĀ 100K+ concurrent users.
  • Lead architecture evolution from MVP to enterprise-grade deployment.
  • Translate business and consumer requirements into robust technical architecture.
  • Drive scalability planning, capacity modeling, and performance engineering.

šŸ”„ End-to-End Ownership

  • Own full SDLC visibility from discovery and design to release, monitoring, and optimization.
  • Establish best practices for:
  • Microservices architecture
  • Distributed systems design
  • Observability & monitoring
  • DevSecOps & CI/CD
  • Ensure system uptime, fault tolerance, and cost efficiency.

☁ AWS Cloud & Infrastructure

  • Design and implement scalable systems usingĀ AWS services.
  • Lead containerization and orchestration usingĀ Docker and Kubernetes (EKS).
  • Architect secure, automated CI/CD pipelines.
  • Drive cloud cost optimization and infrastructure efficiency.

šŸ“ˆ Performance & Reliability Engineering

  • Define and enforceĀ SLAs, SLOs, and reliability metrics.
  • Lead performance testing, load testing, and scalability validation.
  • Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability frameworks.
  • Design fault-tolerant and highly available systems.

🧠 Backend, Data & AI Collaboration

  • Provide architectural guidance for:
  • Backend servicesĀ usingĀ Node.js and Python
  • Frontend platformsĀ usingĀ React / Next.js
  • Data platformsĀ usingĀ Snowflake
  • Collaborate withĀ Data Engineering and AI/ML teamsĀ on data-intensive and AI-driven systems.
  • Design architectures supporting asynchronous processing, caching, and event-driven workflows.

šŸ‘„ Leadership & Governance

  • Mentor senior engineers and guide architecture best practices.
  • Lead architecture governance and design reviews.
  • Influence senior stakeholders with data-driven technical decisions.
  • Drive cross-functional alignment across Product, Engineering, Data, and AI teams.

Required Qualifications

  • 8–15 years of experience in software engineering.
  • Proven experience scaling distributed systems handlingĀ 100K+ users or high-throughput workloads.
  • Deep hands-on expertise inĀ AWS cloud architecture.
  • Strong experience withĀ Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration.
  • Expertise inĀ microservices, caching strategies, asynchronous processing, and distributed systems.
  • Strong understanding of performance engineering and reliability frameworks.
  • Experience building enterprise-grade systems for large-scale organizations.

Preferred Skills

  • Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, SQS, SNS, etc.).
  • Knowledge of database scalability and data warehousing (Snowflake).
  • Exposure toĀ Data Engineering and AI/ML platforms.
  • Strong stakeholder communication and strategic thinking skil


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• Deep experience with data engineering: streaming, batch pipelines, warehouses or search systems.

• Security and compliance awareness: authentication, encryption, audit trails, secure SDLC.

• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS, high-throughput systems or zero downtime migrations.

• Open-source contributions, conference talks, or technical writing.

• Experience scaling an engineering team or helping set up hiring and onboarding practices.

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  • Design and evolve data architectures incorporating relational, NoSQL, graph, and vector databases to support complex enterprise applications and semantic retrieval.
  • Modernize and improve complex enterprise systems while balancing reliability, maintainability, scalability, and delivery speed.
  • Set and uphold engineering quality standards through hands-on technical leadership, sound technical judgment, and ownership of long-term technical decisions.


Qualifications

  • Direct experience with Python as a primary programming language, backend frameworks, and microservices architectures.
  • Expertise in REST and gRPC, with proficiency in Node.js and JavaScript.
  • Proficiency in GCP, along with experience using at least one additional cloud platform such as AWS or Azure.
  • Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes and Terraform in production environments.
  • Experience operating highly available production systems, including monitoring, scalability, reliability, performance optimization, and operational tooling.
  • Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, or DynamoDB.
  • Familiarity with graph databases such as Neo4j and vector databases or embedding infrastructure for semantic search and retrieval.
  • Hands-on experience building and operating LLM-powered systems in production, including evaluation, validation, regression testing, tracing, and failure analysis.
  • Working knowledge of LangSmith or comparable LLM observability and evaluation tools; familiarity with OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar model providers is a plus.
  • Ability to contribute across the full stack, with a strong understanding of frontend architecture and the ability to debug, design, and ship across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and AI systems.
  • Understanding of large-scale enterprise software systems, including architecture, integration, deployment, modernization, and long-term maintainability.
  • Proven track record of operating at Staff+, Principal Engineer, or equivalent level, independently driving complex technical initiatives and delivering high-impact outcomes with minimal supervision.


Blitzy is a Cambridge, MA based AI software development platform on a mission to revolutionize the software development life cycle by autonomously building custom software to unlock the next industrial revolution. We're transforming how enterprises build software, turning enterprise requirements into enterprise grade code with an agentic software development platform that can autonomously execute 80% of the quantum of software development work. We're backed by multiple tier 1 investors, and have proven success as founders of previous start-ups.


Our Culture

Who we are:

Led by two pioneering co-founders we are one of the fastest growing companies in the U.S., creating our own category of enterprise autonomous software development. We automate thousands of hours of software development for our customers, which includes strong representation within the Fortune 500.


How we work:

  • We move Blitzy Fast: Time is both our company’s and our clients’ most precious asset. We move quickly and decisively to innovate internally and deliver exceptional software externally.
  • Championship Mindset: We operate like a professional sports team. We win as a team by holding ourselves and each other to high standards, collaborating in-person, and remaining focused on the mission.
  • Passion for Invention: We’re pushing the frontier of what’s possible, requiring constant innovation and iteration.
  • We Work for the Customer: We focus on delivering outsized value to the customers we work with and expanding those relationships into deep, meaningful partnerships.
  • We believe in being ā€˜everyday athletes’: taking care of ourselves so we can bring our best minds to work. We promote great sleep, movement, and restorative activities forĀ 


Blitzy is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We believe different perspectives make us stronger.

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Remote only
6 - 16 yrs
₹10L - ₹37L / yr
VMWare
skill iconAmazon Web Services (AWS)
Migration
Terraform
Amazon EKS
+1 more

This is a senior role in our Application & Database Modernization pillar, on a specific mission: leading a large-scale VMware-to-AWS migration and landing it in production. VMware estates are exactly where modernization programs go to stall — sprawling dependency graphs, undocumented workloads, and a hypervisor bill that grows while the migration deck gathers dust. Our customers need that estate moved, cut over, and retired, on a date in the contract.

You'll lead the design and implementation of the target infrastructure: Landing Zones built to AWS best practices, EKS-based container platforms, Infrastructure as Code across the stack with Terraform and CloudFormation, and HA, DR, security, and backup strategies that hold up in production. Aedeon absorbs the discovery, dependency-mapping, and validation grind that would otherwise consume the project's first two quarters. You own the judgment calls, architecture tradeoffs, cutover sequencing, risk decisions and you carry them through to production. You'll also mentor engineers and shape long-term infrastructure strategy with customer stakeholders. If you want your migration experience to end in retired VMware clusters rather than revised project plans, this is the role.

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What you will do?

  • Lead the design and implementation of infrastructure for a large-scale VMware-to-AWS migration — from discovery through production cutover.
  • Architect and build secure, scalable, and highly available AWS environments, including Landing Zones that follow AWS best practices.
  • Design and implement containerized application platforms on Amazon EKS; exposure to ECS is a plus.
  • Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
  • Define and enforce best practices across security, backups, high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), monitoring, and operations.
  • Enable configuration management using tools such as Ansible, Chef, or similar.
  • Build CI/CD pipelines and manage the complete build and release lifecycle for customer applications.
  • Drive automation across provisioning, deployment, and operational workflows.
  • Retire legacy infrastructure and land cloud-native architectures in its place.
  • Improve and maintain DevOps platforms: Jenkins, Git repositories, monitoring, and observability stacks.
  • Provide L3-level support for complex infrastructure and platform issues.
  • Work with stakeholders on technical strategy and long-term architecture.
  • Mentor engineers, contribute to talent evaluation, and support team development.

What are we looking for?

  • 6+ years of hands-on DevOps experience, with strong expertise in designing and managing cloud infrastructure.
  • Strong experience in VMware-to-AWS migration projects or large-scale infrastructure migrations.
  • 4+ years of Terraform and CloudFormation for Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
  • 4+ years in configuration management, systems engineering, and managing production-grade infrastructure.
  • Solid Linux and/or Windows administration background.
  • Deep understanding of AWS services, including VPC, EC2, IAM, EKS, ECS, RDS, S3, Backup, CloudWatch, etc.
  • Experience with Kubernetes (EKS), ECS, and Docker in production environments.
  • Hands-on experience designing HA, DR, security, and backup strategies.
  • Experience with Landing Zone setup, multi-account strategy, and AWS governance frameworks.
  • Proficiency in Git with a strong understanding of branching and merging strategies.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation, and operational tooling.
  • A problem-solving mindset that's proactive and oriented toward reliability, performance, and scalability.

You will be preferred if

  • Experience across multiple cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect Associate/Professional or DevOps Engineer Professional.
  • Exposure to data platforms such as Amazon EMR, Redshift, Lake Formation, and SageMaker.
  • Experience designing cloud architectures at an L3/Architect level.


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Proximity Works
at Proximity Works
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5 recruiters
Tushar Vaghela
Posted by Tushar Vaghela
Bengaluru (Bangalore)
5 - 10 yrs
Best in industry
skill iconGo Programming (Golang)
skill iconAmazon Web Services (AWS)
CI/CD


We are seeking Senior Backend Engineers who can hack around multiple technologies and build highly scalable, low-latency, distributed systems with RESTful services. You will be responsible for developing new software products (internal) and solving complex technical challenges for scale-ups and enterprise companies. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills.


Responsibilities—

  • Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, and maintainable code.
  • Solving complex technical problems.
  • Performing an objective analysis of the problem statement and coming up with an unbiased technical solution before writing a single line of code.
  • Coordinating cross-functionally to ensure the project meets business objectives and compliance standards.
  • Participating in and driving code reviews.
  • Building robust, secure, and scalable microservices.
  • Implementing RESTful services with a metric-driven API Gateway.
  • Ensuring sub-second server response and will be responsible for implementing relational, document, key, object, or graph data stores, index stores and messaging stores as needed.
  • Tracking defects and work with business owners and users to triage bugs and manage backlog
  • Taking ownership to run and maintain Cloud infrastructure.
  • Evaluating relevant technologies, influencing and driving architecture and design discussions.
  • Architecting & designing the platform.
  • Mentoring junior engineers helping them grow, performing code reviews, system monitoring & delegation.
  • Writing documentation & create engineering processes.
  • Working as an individual contributor.
  • Helping drive KPIs with Product.
  • Taking ownership of backend systems.
  • Helping with unit tests & QA process.
  • Scaling the engineering team.
  • System scaling to hundreds of millions of users.
  • Working with product managers and designs.


Requirements—

  • Overall 5-10 years of experience in software development with a strong base in Golang/Java/Python and a degree in Computer Science(optional).
  • Experience with Go, K8, Docker, AWS, and CI/CD.
  • Experience with micro web frameworks – like Springboot, Gin/Mux.
  • Experience in working with microservice architectures, Transactional systems, and Distributed environments.
  • Exposure to building RESTful APIs with monitoring, fault tolerance, and metrics (with something like Hystrix).
  • Experience with MySQL, and NoSQL (Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB).
  • Experience in server-side services using ElasticSearch and ESB - Camel, ActiveMQ.
  • DevOps experience.
  • Experience with AWS stack.
  • Excellent attention to detail.
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
  • To be a self-starter who can work well with minimal to no guidance in a fluid environment.
  • To be excited by challenges surrounding the development of highly scalable & distributed systems.
  • To be agile and able to adapt quickly to changing requirements scope and priorities.
  • To be experienced in working on massively large-scale data systems in production environments.
  • To have led or mentored an engineering team before(optional).
  • To have contributed to open-source projects.
  • To have a strong drive & desire for continued growth.
  • Proficiency in English.
  • Experience with Web3(optional).


Benefits—

  • Best-in-class salary: We hire strong talent and compensate accordingly.
  • Proximity Talks: Meet and learn from designers, engineers, product leaders, and AI practitioners.
  • Continuous learning: Work with a world-class team and stay close to the latest in AI, engineering, and product development.
  • High-impact work: Build AI-first systems and products used at scale by global clients.


About us—

Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media, and Entertainment companies in the world. We’re headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore.

Since 2019, Proximity has built high-impact, scalable products used by millions of users every day. Today, we are a global team of engineers, designers, product managers, and experts solving complex problems and building cutting-edge technology at scale.

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