Principal Engineer

Condé Nast; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Condé Nast is seeking a senior architect to own end-to-end technical design across multiple domains, delivering scalable, AI-native solutions. You will lead architectural decisions, guide trade-offs, and collaborate with product, UX, analytics teams globally to align technology with business goals.

You will champion AI-assisted development, coach engineers, and shape how AI tooling integrates into CI/CD and production readiness.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering experience.
• 3+ years as Tech Lead, Staff Engineer, or Architect.
• Advertising, Subscriptions or Commerce domain experience is a plus.
• Fluent in Python and NodeJS; familiarity with AI tooling.
• Experience with agentic AI concepts and CI/CD integration.
• Cloud native AWS/Azure deployments and observability/security knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end technical design across a domain.
• Translate business vision into scalable, AI-native solutions.
• Guide decisions, negotiate trade-offs, oversee execution.
• Collaborate with Product, UX, Analytics across geographies.
• Integrate AI-native development as a first-class practice.

Skills

Software architecture

AI fluency

Cross-functional collaboration

Excellent communication

Mentoring engineers

Tools

Python

NodeJS

GitHub Copilot

Augment Code

Job description

Job Description

Condé Nast is one of the world's most renowned media publishing companies, creating and distributing every type of media today, spanning print and digital publishing in all formats. With a portfolio of some of today’s most influential brands, the company continues to grow its audience through a global operational and content infrastructure across its 12 owned and operated markets. Headquartered in New York City, the company's owned and operated markets include China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico & Latin America, Spain, Taiwan, UAE/Dubai, the U.K., and the U.S., with additional local license partners in over twenty additional markets across the globe. Lead brands include Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Architectural Digest, Condé Nast Traveler, Vanity Fair, Wired, Allure, Ars Technica, Bon Appétit, House & Garden, Pitchfork, Tatler, and Vogue Business.

Job Description

Location

Bengaluru, KA

About The Role

You are the connective tissue across our Engineering function. Owning the end-to-end technical design of a domain, ensuring multiple sub-domains and systems form a coherent ecosystem. This entails translating business ambition and product vision and combining it with technical execution to create practical and scalable, and AI-native end-to-end solutions that deliver real outcomes.

What You’ll Do

With a specific focus across domains, you unite expertise with architectural vision, and make the complex simple. You ensure technical solutions - both the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ are accomplished across the technology ecosystem, with AI-assisted development embedded as a first-class practice across the teams you influence. Working collaboratively is second nature - you guide key decisions, negotiate trade-offs and oversee execution; ensuring every solution strengthens our product vision. In short, you make ambition buildable and strategy actionable! You bring architecture into product planning early — not as a reviewer at the end, but as a co-designer from the start.

You’ll partner with

• Peer Solution Architects and Engineering Directors to align architecture with business strategy and enable teams to move faster with confidence.
• Product leaders, business stakeholders, Staff Engineers, Engineering VPs and Directors, and external thought leaders

About You

• Proven track record of delivering large-scale solutions across multiple geographies
• You bring context, clarity and creativity; shape designs that are both strategically sound and practically executable and that account for the evolving capabilities of AI-assisted development tooling
• The ultimate problem solver and business partner; you possess excellent business acumen to spot both the solution and the opportunity.
• Ability to see the bigger picture across the whole technology ecosystem.
• First class communication skills to convey complex architectural decisions in a clear and concise manner, so engineering teams, product leaders, and business stakeholders all understand what is to be built and why
• Always one-step ahead - you actively shape how AI-native development practices evolve within the organisation, not just adopt them

Desired Skills And Experience

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering building software products, at scale with at least 3 years as a Tech Lead, Staff Engineer, or Architect responsible for defining and delivering technology solutions across complex domains
• Working experience of working on one or more of Advertising, Subscriptions and Commerce domains would be a PLUS.
• Expert fluency in at least 2 programing languages including Python, NodeJS; working knowledge of AI code generation tools (Codex/Claude Code/Cursor/GitHub Copilot/ Augment Code) change development workflows and code quality standards
• Good understanding of Agentic AI concepts and hands-on experience working on on Agentic AI projects in production — including agent orchestration, LLM tool use, evaluation frameworks, guardrail design, and multi-agent pipeline architecture
• Demonstrable experience defining and governing AI-assisted development practices within an engineering organisation — including how agentic tooling integrates into CI/CD pipelines, code review, test automation, and production readiness standards
• Experience with cloud native ecosystems(AWS/Azure) with exposure on deployment infrastructure, observability, security and resilience paradigms
• Strong ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams in Product Management, UX and Analytics teams across different geographies and time zones
• Ability to translate highly complex technical requirements into easily digestible and actionable plans
• Excellent communication skills – both written and verbal, and ability to communicate effectively on technology solutions and their business impact
• Ability to coach, mentor engineers across levels with the ability to build architectural thinking and AI fluency across the organisation — elevating technical capability beyond your immediate team

Why join us?

At Condé Nast, you’ll help build the technology behind Vogue, GQ, Wired, The New Yorker, and more. You’ll work with a global community of creative and technical minds who are redefining what storytelling looks like in the digital age. We value curiosity, collaboration, and bold ideas, and we’re looking for someone who loves turning great plans into even greater results.

Condé Nast is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, familial status and other legally protected characteristics.