Principal Engineer

Clari + Salesloft are building the next era of enterprise revenue — one where teams make confident decisions powered by AI and real signals. By combining our scale, insights, and AI innovation, we’re building the industry’s first Predictive Revenue System, enabling humans and AI to work together to make smarter decisions and drive consistent growth.

With thousands of customers using our platforms every day, we have an unmatched view into how revenue is actually won — the Revenue Context that reveals what happens, when, and with what outcome. This gives us a unique opportunity to transform an entire category and set a new benchmark for how modern revenue teams operate.

Join us to help transform how companies around the world run revenue — and build the platform that will guide leading revenue teams into the future.

Job Title: Principal Software Engineer

Location: India, Hybrid

This is a hybrid position, which will require the ability to be onsite in our Bengaluru, India office as needed. Candidates must be based in India.

THE OPPORTUNITY:

At Clari + Salesloft, our Principal Software Engineer will be pivotal to our company’s success. You will be a key member of our fast-growing and high-performing team in India. We are looking for experienced Principal Software Engineers who can help realize Clari + Salesloft vision with their passion and proven track record of excellence and innovation. We are looking for engineers who are passionate about their work and who thrive working on leading-edge cloud-based technologies to develop ground-breaking AI-driven enterprise-grade applications.

On a day-to-day basis, you will be responsible to -

---Proactively research and investigate external products and technologies identifying emerging trends and revise software development best practices to take advantage of these

-Partner with data engineering, product, infrastructure, and other stakeholder teams to align AI platform initiatives with broader company goals, infrastructure strategy, and innovation roadmap.

-Drive architecture discussions, design and code reviews and provide timely feedbackImplement and evolve critical components of our architecture

-Drive engineering excellence for the orgs in India and raise the bar on engineering metrics

-Contribute to hiring strong and diverse talent to strengthen the teamImplement robust CI/CD pipelines, Docker containerization, model registries, and experiment tracking to support reproducibility, scalability, and governance in ML and GenAI

-Contribute actively to internal documentation, onboarding, and training programs, promoting platform adoption and continuous improvement

-Developing an optimal and scalable architecture for the cloudDrive architecture discussions, design and code reviews and provide timely feedback

-Collaborating with several cross functional teams, product managers and engineers

-Proactively research and investigate external products and technologies identifying emerging trends and revise software development best practices to take advantage of these

-Providing technical guidance and mentoring to team membersImplement and evolve critical components of our architectureHiring strong and diverse talent to strengthen the team

In addition to working with amazing colleagues who exemplify our ‘team over self’ core value, you will also have the opportunity to work on an impactful and revolutionary software that is changing the way sellers sell. You will have an opportunity to make a difference.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

We’re looking for a Principal Engineer to lead the design and architecture of key initiatives at Clari + Salesloft India. In this role, you’ll shape the future of our Conversational Intelligence and Activity Analytics products—delivering insights from both structured and unstructured data to drive revenue excellence. You ‘ll be responsible for India Charter and designing large-scale, high-performance systems used by some of the world’s top enterprise tech companies, including processing that data in real time to generate insights, using audio fingerprinting to differentiate between speakers, and leveraging large language models (LLMs) to extract meaning from conversations. This is a high-impact, high-innovation role at the core of Clari + Salesloft’s mission.

If you’re looking for an opportunity to learn more, do more, and become more, then becoming a Principal Software Engineer is the career path for you!

THE TEAM:

The Engineering Team at Clari + Salesloft is deeply committed to building an enterprise-grade platform that serves as the backbone for our customer's most critical business process - Revenue. With an unrelenting commitment to innovation, our mission is to craft the ultimate revenue intelligence platform for our customers. Rooted in Agile principles, we foster a culture of adaptability and efficiency across all our teams. If you're energized by the prospect of contributing to a dynamic environment that emphasizes collaboration, continuous improvement, and leveraging the forefront of technology to address customer needs, we would love to meet you.

THE SKILL SET::
• 13+ years of professional server development experience using Java, Python and other similar object-oriented languages

• 10+ years of professional server development experience using Java or similar object-oriented language

• Experience in building data integrations with a variety of sources.

• Strong understanding of web-based architecture - web servers, load balancing, caching, databases, etc.

• Knowledge of SQL (Postgres) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB)

• Up-to-date knowledge of latest trends in web application development, including Amazon AWS ecosystem

• Proven track record of developing applications for performance and scale that are widely used

• Experience building ETL pipelines, real-time applications and events/signal generation and processing

• Proven track record of developing applications for performance and scale that are widely used

#LI-Hybrid

At Clari + Salesloft, we are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive workplace where everyone belongs and can thrive. We focus on culture add, not culture fit, and believe our teams are made stronger by the unique perspectives, experiences, and identities each person brings.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and provide employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you’re excited about this role even though your experience may not perfectly match every requirement, we encourage you to apply. We are actively hiring across multiple geographies and would love to welcome passionate, curious, and mission-driven individuals to our growing team. Explore our open roles and consider joining us!

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