# Principal Software Engineer

Make Your Mark: As a Principal Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in delivering high quality releases to our customers by defining application architecture, designing, developing, troubleshooting, maintaining, optimizing, and scaling BlackLine's cloud-based backend services and driving innovation into our product suite. In this role, you will work with management to identify strategic directions for system architecture. You will research, test, benchmark and evaluate new technologies, propose scaling solutions, collaborate with other teams to define, and build new features, optimize existing features while writing elegant code, coaching, and mentoring less experienced software engineers and communicating with people at all levels. In this position, every bit of your software design skill be drawn upon in order to drive towards and implement best of breed features in a rapid iterative environment. Your attention to detail, tenacity, and creative problem-solving and thinking ahead will directly impact the company's success, as well as the success of your peers across the organization. If you have a passion for delivering products that make a difference, are driven to mak

- **Id**: 3870978
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/blackline-principal-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bengaluru, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 18
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T14:25:02Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T08:35:50Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 10389
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Professional development
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Accounting & Tax Software

## Company

- **Id**: 1833518
- **Name**: BlackLine
- **Domain**: blackline.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/blackline-com>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 5
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 48
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Anomaly Detection** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Claude** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Gemini** — Optional: no
- **Google Cloud Run** — Optional: no
- **Google GKE** — Optional: no
- **GPT-4** — Optional: no
- **gRPC** — Optional: no
- **Human-in-the-Loop** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LangGraph** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **LLM Evaluation** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: no
- **pgvector** — Optional: no
- **Pinecone** — Optional: no
- **Prompt Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Quantization** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Vertex AI Agent Builder** — Optional: no
- **Weaviate** — Optional: no
- **LangChain** — Optional: yes
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 18
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **India** — Iso: IN; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T14:25:02Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 48
- **Reasons**: conf:10, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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