# Principal Software Engineer

Job Description: Principal Software Engineer - AI Platforms & Knowledge Graphs Role: Principal Software Engineer - AI/LLM Platforms Experience: 10-15+ years Level: Principal Engineer / Technical Architect Domain: Enterprise AI, Knowledge Graphs, Generative AI, Distributed Systems About the Role We are looking for a highly accomplished Principal Software Engineer to lead the architecture, design, development, and evolution of enterprise-scale AI platforms, knowledge graph systems, and intelligent applications. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in distributed systems, scalable software architecture, knowledge graphs, Large Language Models (LLMs), and production-grade AI engineering. This is a hands-on technical leadership role requiring strong engineering fundamentals, architectural depth, and the ability to build, deploy, scale, and maintain complex AI-powered systems for enterprise customers. The candidate should have practical experience working with multiple LLMs, understand their capabilities, limitations, and performance trade-offs, and be capable of making informed architectural decisions to deliver reliable, secure, and cost-efficient AI solutions. Key Responsibilitie

- **Id**: 4311829
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/showpad-principal-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Pune, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-14T05:07:58Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-14
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T12:30:28Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8543
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Sales Enablement, Corporate Training

## Company

- **Id**: 54384
- **Name**: Showpad
- **Domain**: showpad.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/showpad>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 95
- **Open postings**: 4
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 74
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Amazon Neptune** — Optional: no
- **Anthropic** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Claude** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **ElasticSearch** — Optional: no
- **Embeddings** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Gemini** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **GraphRAG** — Optional: no
- **Incident Management** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Knowledge Graph** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LangChain** — Optional: no
- **LangGraph** — Optional: no
- **Llama** — Optional: no
- **LlamaIndex** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **LLMOps** — Optional: no
- **Milvus** — Optional: no
- **Mistral** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **Neo4j** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI** — Optional: no
- **OpenSearch** — Optional: no
- **pgvector** — Optional: no
- **Pinecone** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Prompt Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Redis** — Optional: no
- **Reranking** — Optional: no
- **Semantic Search** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **Weaviate** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T12:30:28Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 74
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T14:40:21Z

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