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Software Senior Principal Engineer

The Software Engineering team delivers next-generation software application enhancements and new products for a changing world. Working at the cutting edge, we design and develop software for platforms, peripherals, applications and diagnostics — all with the most advanced technologies, tools, software engineering methodologies and the collaboration of internal and external partners.

Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a Software Senior Principal Engineer on our **Software Engineering **Team in Bangalore/Pune What you’ll achieve As a Senior Software Principal Engineer, you will define and drive the AI-first quality strategy for large-scale distributed storage and data protection systems. You will influence architecture, development practices, and release confidence across multiple products, working closely with senior engineering leadership, architects, and product owners to deliver industry-leading reliability, performance, and customer trust.

You will:

• Define and own the long-term quality and AI strategy for distributed storage and data protection platforms. Establish AI-driven quality architectures for intelligent test selection, predictive risk analysis, anomaly detection, and automated release gating at scale.

• Influence product and system architecture to ensure testability, observability, and resilience are built in from design through deployment.

• Serve as the highest-level technical authority for diagnosing complex, cross-product reliability and scale issues.

• Mentor and guide I7/I8 engineers, principals, and architects, raising the technical bar across the organization. Partner with executive leadership to align quality initiatives with business outcomes, customer experience, and cost efficiency.

Take the first step towards your dream career

Every Dell Technologies team member brings something unique to the table. Here’s what we are looking for with this role: Essential Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in large-scale distributed systems, storage platforms, and high-availability architectures.

• Proven track record of architecting AI/ML-powered engineering systems, such as

• Predictive quality and release risk models, Intelligent test orchestration and execution optimization, Anomaly detection across logs, metrics, and traces

• Strong coding background with the ability to prototype and review complex systems in Python, Go, or similar languages.

• Expert-level understanding of CI/CD ecosystems, observability stacks, and cloud-native platforms.

• Experience influencing architecture across multiple products and engineering organizations.

Desirable Requirements

• Recognized thought leadership in quality, reliability, or AI engineering (patents, publications, internal frameworks). Experience driving enterprise-wide DevOps or quality transformations.

• Exposure to regulatory, security, or compliance-driven validation at scale.

Who we are

We believe that each of us has the power to make an impact. That’s why we put our team members at the center of everything we do. If you’re looking for an opportunity to grow your career with some of the best minds and most advanced tech in the industry, we’re looking for you.
Dell Technologies is a unique family of businesses that helps individuals and organizations transform how they work, live and play. Join us to build a future that works for everyone because Progress Takes All of Us.

Application closing date: 1 March, 2026

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