Principal Forward Deployed Engineer

Persistent; Pune District; Hybrid; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Hybrid work

Education sponsorship

Job summary

Persistent seeks a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer to lead advanced AWS, AI, and cloud-native engagements for enterprise customers. The role emphasizes hands-on architecture, production-grade prototypes, and close collaboration with AWS teams.

Ideal candidates have 15–20 years of experience in software/enterprise engineering, strong AWS proficiency, and a track record of driving modernization initiatives across data and AI platforms.

Qualifications

• 15–20 years of software/enterprise engineering experience.
• Deep hands-on AWS and cloud-native architectures.
• Proven ability to lead architecture and solution design.

Responsibilities

• Lead engagements from problem definition to architecture realization.
• Design scalable, production-grade cloud-native solutions.
• Mentor teams on AI systems and cloud-native patterns.
• Collaborate with AWS and enterprise stakeholders on strategic opportunities.

Skills

AWS

Distributed Systems

Cloud Architecture

Generative AI

Agentic AI

Rust

Go

C++

Data Platforms

APIs

Tools

GraphQL

gRPC

MuleSoft

Job description

AboutPosition:

We are seeking an exceptional Principal Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE3) to join our strategic engineering organization. This is a senior, highly technical, customer-facing role focused on solving complex business and technology challenges through hands-on engineering, cloud-native architectures, AI-powered solutions, and deep collaboration with AWS and enterprise customers. Unlike traditional consulting or delivery-focused roles, this position requires an engineering-first mindset with the ability to lead through working software, production-grade prototypes, reference implementations, and architecture innovation. The ideal candidate will possess expertise across AWS, distributed systems, modern data platforms, Generative AI, Agentic AI, cloud-native application development, and enterprise transformation initiatives.

• Role: Principal Forward Deployed Engineer AWS & Agentic AI
• Location: All Persistent Locations
• Experience: Between 15 to 20 Years
• Job Type: Full Time Employment

WhatYou'llDo:

• Act as Persistent's frontline technical representative for AWS and strategic enterprise customers.
• Lead technical engagements from problem definition through architecture design and solution realization.
• Translate complex business challenges into scalable cloud-native architectures and solution blueprints.
• Design, develop, and demonstrate production-grade proof of concepts, prototypes, accelerators, and reference implementations.
• Conduct technical discovery workshops, architecture assessments, modernization reviews, and solution strategy sessions.
• Partner closely with AWS teams and customer stakeholders to identify and accelerate strategic opportunities.
• Lead architecture reviews, code walkthroughs, technical demonstrations, and engineering workshops.
• Drive cloud modernization, application modernization, data modernization, and AI transformation initiatives.
• Design solutions utilizing AWS services, serverless technologies, container platforms, data services, and AI/ML ecosystems.
• Architect event-driven, distributed, and real-time processing solutions for enterprise-scale environments.
• Design and implement highly scalable, resilient, fault-tolerant, and secure systems.
• Build reusable frameworks, technical assets, accelerators, and engineering playbooks.
• Contribute to strategic pursuits, technical proposals, and high-impact customer engagements.
• Mentor architects and engineering teams on cloud-native development, AI systems, and engineering best practices.
• Drive innovation through Generative AI, Agentic AI, multi-agent systems, and modern cloud architecture patterns.
• Represent the organization through customer presentations, technical forums, conferences, blogs, and thought leadership initiatives.

ExpertiseYou'llBring:

• 15-20 years of experience in Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Distributed Systems, Cloud Architecture, or Enterprise Engineering.
• Deep hands-on expertise across AWS services including compute, storage, networking, security, serverless, containers, and data platforms.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems design and large-scale cloud-native architectures.
• Experience designing highly available, fault-tolerant, self-healing, and resilient systems.
• Expertise in event-driven architectures, asynchronous processing, and real-time systems.
• Experience designing enterprise-scale cloud transformation and modernization solutions.
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture and API-first engineering.
• Experience working with modern enterprise data platforms and large-scale data ecosystems.
• Hands-on expertise with NoSQL, document, graph, and vector databases.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, ETL/ELT pipelines, and data migration programs.
• Experience with Change Data Capture (CDC), streaming architectures, and modern data integration patterns.
• Experience building data-intensive cloud-native applications and analytics platforms.
• Strong proficiency in Rust, Go, C++.
• Experience developing high-performance and distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of systems programming concepts and scalable software architecture.
• Experience building enterprise APIs, backend platforms, and cloud-native services.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise integration technologies such as GraphQL, gRPC, MuleSoft, Apache Camel, WSO2, Boomi.
• Experience integrating complex enterprise platforms, cloud services, and APIs.
• Experience designing secure cloud architectures and implementing cloud security best practices.
• Strong understanding of Identity and Access Management (IAM), zero-trust concepts, and secure software engineering practices.
• Experience with observability platforms, distributed tracing, telemetry, monitoring, and log analytics.
• Knowledge of incident management, operational excellence, and platform reliability practices.
• Experience implementing enterprise-scale monitoring and observability solutions.
• Strong expertise in Generative AI application development and enterprise AI architecture.
• Experience designing Agentic AI and Multi-Agent Systems.
• Hands-on experience with prompt engineering and AI orchestration frameworks.
• Strong understanding of AI guardrails, governance, and responsible AI practices.
• Experience with LLM evaluation frameworks and AI observability solutions.
• Knowledge of chain-of-thought logging, AI monitoring, and model governance.
• Experience designing enterprise AI platforms and intelligent automation solutions.
• Hands-on experience with AWS Bedrock and modern AI ecosystems.
• Proven ability to engage senior AWS leaders, architects, engineering executives, and customer stakeholders.
• Strong consulting and solutioning mindset with the ability to influence technology strategy through technical credibility.
• Experience driving architecture strategy, modernization programs, and enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Strong leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration capabilities.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and provide clarity through engineering-driven problem solving.
• Excellent presentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Active participation in open-source communities and technology ecosystems.
• Experience publishing technical blogs, articles, whitepapers, conference talks, or industry contributions.
• Ability to conduct architecture reviews, solution deep-dives, and executive-level technical discussions.
• Broad technology vision spanning cloud, AI, applications, infrastructure, security, observability, and data platforms.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Culture focused on talent development with quarterly growth opportunities and company-sponsored higher education and certifications
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies
• Employee engagement initiatives such as project parties, flexible work hours, and Long Service awards
• Annual health check-ups
• Insurance coverage: group term life, personal accident, and Mediclaim hospitalization for self, spouse, two children, and parents

Values-Driven,People-Centric&InclusiveWorkEnvironment:

Persistent is dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We invite applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities, and regardless of gender or gender preference. We welcome diverse candidates from all backgrounds.

• We support hybrid work and flexible hours to fit diverse lifestyles.
• Our office is accessibility-friendly, with ergonomic setups and assistive technologies to support employees with physical disabilities.
• If you are a person with disabilities and have specific requirements, please inform us during the application process or at any time during your employment.

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