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Quest Global

Principal SDE - Cloud, Platform & Agentic AI

12-14 Years
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Job Requirements

Enterprise Architecture & Platform Leadership

Define and evolve reference architectures for distributed, lowlatency, highTPS systems deployed on AWS and Kubernetes (EKS).

Serve as a final technical escalation point for complex architectural and system design decisions across multiple teams.

Lead architectural tradeoff decisions spanning compute, networking, data, resiliency, observability, and cost—with explicit SLAs/SLOs.

Own and evangelize nonfunctional requirements (latency, throughput, availability, scalability, operability, security, cost efficiency).

Drive architectural consistency while enabling teamlevel autonomy through clear patterns and guardrails.

Deep HandsOn Engineering & Validation

Design and review critical execution paths in Javabased microservices (Spring Boot, gRPC, REST).

Build sophisticated POCs and spike solutions to derisk architecture decisions and emerging technologies before broad adoption.

Perform advanced production debugging across application, JVM, Kubernetes, and AWS layers.

Model prototypefirst engineering—validating ideas experimentally before standardization.

Remain handson enough that designs are grounded in real operational constraints.

Cloud & Kubernetes Expertise (AWS / EKS)

Architect And Guide Largescale AWS Environments Leveraging

EKS, EC2, ALB/NLB, VPC, IAM, Auto Scaling

Logging, metrics, distributed tracing, and alerting

Define Kubernetes Platform Patterns

Pod and node design

HPA and autoscaling strategies

MultiAZ and resilience models

Safe rollout, rollback, and canary strategies

Influence securityfirst, costaware, and operationally efficient cloud designs at scale.

Agentic AI & AIAugmented Engineering

Architect and prototype Agentic AI–driven engineering systems embedded into the SDLC.

Drive adoption and safe usage of GenAI tools such as GitHub Copilot and custom AI agents to:

Accelerate development and refactoring

Improve code quality, reviews, and test coverage

Reduce cognitive load for engineers

Experiment With AIenabled Workflows Across

Design Build Test Deploy Operate

Partner with governance and security stakeholders to ensure responsible, compliant AI usage.

Engineering Excellence, Standards & Mentorship

Define and evolve engineering standards, reference implementations, and best practices across the organization.

Perform deep architectural and code reviews for highimpact systems.

Mentor senior and staff engineers; coach teams on performance, cloudnative design, and system thinking.

Influence technical direction without authority through credibility, clarity, and results.

Work Experience

12+ years of handson software engineering experience

Expertlevel Java experience with largescale microservices platforms

Proven success designing and operating highthroughput, lowlatency systems

Advanced Knowledge Of

Distributed systems

Concurrency, performance tuning, and JVM internals

Fault tolerance, resiliency patterns, and graceful degradation

Cloud & Platform Engineering

Extensive production experience with Kubernetes (EKS) at scale

Deep expertise in AWS networking, security, and scaling patterns

Experience designing cloudnative, servicesbased or eventdriven platforms

Strong operational mindset (observability, incident response, reliability)

AI & Modern Engineering Practices

Handson experience applying Generative AI / Agentic AI in real engineering workflows

Active usage of GitHub Copilot or equivalent AI tooling

Experience integrating AI into developer platforms or SDLC automation (preferred)

Technical Leadership

Recognized ability to influence architecture across teams and platforms

Experience serving as a goto expert for the most complex technical problems

Strong communication skills—able to clearly articulate tradeoffs to engineers and leadership alike

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in payments, fintech, or largescale transaction processing systems

gRPC, async messaging, or streaming platforms (Kafka, etc.)

Strong observability and SREaligned practices

Proven track record modernizing legacy systems to cloudnative architectures

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