Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer - Python

The Principal Software Engineer is a senior technical leader responsible for designing and evolving large-scale, distributed software systems. This role combines deep hands-on engineering with system architecture, technical leadership, and team mentorship. The Principal Software Engineer partners closely with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, reliable, and high-quality solutions aligned with long-term platform strategy.

About You (Skills & Experience Required)

• Bachelor’s 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 also have:

• 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.

About the Team    

The IP Content Technology team consists of multiple squads working on processing patents, trademark data available in the world to provide insights to our customers with data acquisition, ingestion, delivery of data to customers covering all phases of data lifecycle.

 
Hours of Work   

This is permanent position with Clarivate. You will be working for 9 hours per day including 1 hour lunch break. 

At Clarivate, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all  qualified persons with respect to hiring, compensation, promotion, training, and other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment. We comply with applicable laws and regulations governing non-discrimination in all locations.

Experience Level

Senior Level