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Senior Principal Software Architect

India, Bangalore · Job Posted January 06, 2026
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Senior Principal Software Architect role at Aruba, an HPE Company, a leading provider of next-generation network access solutions. This is a high-impact, senior technical role combining hands-on and leadership responsibilities to shape long-term system strategy, drive large-scale architectural initiatives, and guide engineering teams in building secure, scalable, and resilient platforms and services.

Job Responsibility

  • Define and own the overarching architecture for mission-critical systems and platform components
  • Drive the long-term architectural roadmap
  • Design models, frameworks, and patterns that guide the evolution of APIs, data flows, domain boundaries, and service interactions
  • Conduct hands-on POC’s and evaluate and integrate emerging technologies
  • Establish foundational engineering principles, architectural guardrails, and best practices across teams
  • Lead end-to-end architectural design for complex features, cross-cutting systems, and high-scale service components
  • Provide hands-on architectural guidance and support
  • Develop architectural models for control-plane systems, configuration management, policy engines, and distributed workflows
  • Ensure system designs incorporate strong observability, fault tolerance, security controls, dependency isolation, and operational readiness
  • Partner with security teams to design secure APIs, containment logic, and robust security posture
  • Serve as a senior technical advisor to engineering leadership, product owners, security leads, and cross-functional stakeholders
  • Lead architecture reviews, platform-wide design discussions, and strategic engineering initiatives
  • Mentor senior engineers
  • Communicate architectural decisions, trade-offs, and risks
  • Drive alignment across teams
  • Champion high standards for reliability, scalability, performance, and efficiency across the platform
  • Contribute high quality code to the system to set clear quality and standard examples
  • Guide teams in designing systems that are resilient to failures, observable by default, and easy to maintain and evolve
  • Influence DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure, and cloud-native practices

Requirements

  • 10–15+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant experience in architect-level roles
  • Background with security products or platforms (EDR/XDR, cloud security, network security, or policy enforcement systems)
  • Proven expertise architecting large-scale systems, distributed platforms, control planes, and service ecosystems
  • Expert engineering proficiency with .NET Core and familiarity with its runtime architecture, performance considerations, and advanced patterns
  • Deep experience designing API ecosystems across multiple technologies (REST, GraphQL, gRPC, etc.)
  • Expertise with containerized environments and orchestration systems (Docker, Kubernetes), including production-grade deployments
  • Strong systems design skills, including domain modeling, performance engineering, service decomposition, and workflow orchestration
  • Strong understanding of security architecture, risk modeling, and secure-by-design principles

Nice to have

  • Experience developing and maintaining SOAR system components and control planes
  • Experience designing or leading configuration systems, policy engines, or management platforms
  • Experience with distributed systems at massive scale or in regulated/high-security environments
  • Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud architecture (AWS/GCP/Azure)
  • Prior experience in technical leadership roles influencing multiple teams or organizations

What we offer

  • Health & Wellbeing
  • Personal & Professional Development
  • Unconditional Inclusion

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