Principal Software Engineer — Data Platform & MAI

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Principal Software Engineer — Data Platform & MAI

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Palo Alto CA USA
In-Office
226K-311K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning
Uniphore is the Business AI Company for the agentic enterprise.
The Role
The Principal Software Engineer will develop scalable distributed systems optimize data pipelines enhance system performance and mentor engineers in a data-intensive environment.
Summary Generated by Built In

Uniphore is one of the largest B2B AI-native companies—decades-proven built-for-scale and designed for the enterprise. The company drives business outcomes across multiple industry verticals and enables the largest global deployments.  
  
Uniphore infuses AI into every part of the enterprise that impacts the customer. We deliver the only multimodal architecture centered on customers that combines Generative AI Knowledge AI Emotion AI workflow automation and a co-pilot to guide you. We understand better than anyone how to capture voice video and text and how to analyze all types of data.  
  
As AI becomes more powerful every part of the enterprise that impacts the customer will be disrupted. We believe the future will run on the connective tissue between people machines and data: all in the service of creating the most human processes and experiences for customers and employees.   

Job Description:
 

Uniphore is one of the largest B2B AI-native companies—decades-proven built-for-scale and designed for the enterprise. The company drives business outcomes across multiple industry verticals and enables some of the largest global deployments. 
 
Uniphore infuses AI into every part of the enterprise that impacts the customer. We deliver the only multimodal architecture centered on customers that combines Generative AI Knowledge AI Emotion AI workflow automation and a co-pilot to guide you. We understand better than anyone how to capture voice video and text and how to analyze all types of data. 
 
As AI becomes more powerful every part of the enterprise that impacts the customer will be disrupted. We believe the future will run on the connective tissue between people machines and data: all in the service of creating the most human processes and experiences for customers and employees. 
 
At Uniphore we are building the foundational platform where data AI and execution converge bringing together large-scale data processing real-time systems and intelligent orchestration into a unified architecture. 

About the Role 

This role sits within our Data Layer and Marketing AI (MAI) platform where we are converging Customer Data Platform (CDP) capabilities distributed data processing systems and AI-driven decisioning into a single cohesive platform. 
 
You will work on data-intensive distributed systems that power real-time and batch processing customer data activation and emerging AI-driven workflows. The platform operates at enterprise scale processing high-volume batch and real-time data across global customers with pipelines handling petabyte-scale data and high-throughput event streams. 
 
This is a backend-leaning role with opportunities to work across the stack but with a strong focus on data systems distributed compute and platform engineering. 

Key Responsibilities 

  • Design and build scalable distributed data systems supporting both batch and real-time workloads. 

  • Develop and optimize streaming pipelines using technologies such as Kafka and event-driven architectures. 

  • Implement high-throughput low-latency backend services that power data activation and customer-facing APIs. 

  • Improve system performance scalability reliability and cost efficiency across large-scale production environments. 

  • Contribute to data modeling strategies storage optimization and compute efficiency across platforms. 

  • Enable AI-driven workflows by building robust data pipelines and execution layers that support downstream intelligence. 

  • Collaborate with product AI/ML and platform teams to deliver end-to-end solutions. 

  • Drive operational excellence through observability monitoring and incident response. 

  • Mentor engineers and contribute to improving engineering standards and practices. 

  • Define architecture across multiple systems and domains. 

  • Drive platform-level technical strategy and long-term direction. 

  • Solve cross-cutting scalability reliability and performance challenges. 

  • Mentor engineers and elevate engineering standards across teams. 

Core Technical Requirements 

  • 8–12+ years of experience building distributed systems in production environments. 

  • Strong experience working with data-intensive systems and large-scale data pipelines. 

  • Proficiency in Scala Java or Python. 

  • Hands-on experience with Apache Spark and distributed data processing. 

  • Experience with streaming systems such as Kafka Pulsar or similar technologies. 

  • Strong understanding of data modeling and storage systems (SQL and NoSQL). 

  • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS GCP or Azure. 

  • Strong debugging performance tuning and problem-solving skills. 

Preferred Experience 

  • Deep experience with Scala and Spark in production environments. 

  • Experience designing and operating real-time and event-driven systems. 

  • Experience with modern data warehouses such as Snowflake or BigQuery. 

  • Familiarity with Kubernetes and containerized environments. 

  • Experience with observability monitoring and system performance tuning. 

  • Experience processing unstructured data such as documents logs and transcripts. 

  • Exposure to AI/LLM systems including RAG pipelines embeddings and vector search. 

  • Experience building platform or infrastructure layers supporting multiple teams. 


 


Hiring Range:

$226100 - $310900 - for Primary Location of USA - CA - Palo Alto

The specific rate will depend on the successful candidate's qualifications and prior experience.

In addition to competitive base pay this position also includes an annual incentive opportunity based on target achievement  pre-IPO stock options benefits including medical dental vision 401(k) with a match and more plus generous paid time off paid holidays paid day off for your birthday and other paid leave policies to support employees through all phases of life.


Location preference:

USA - CA - Palo Alto

Uniphore is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity in the workplace. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation disability veteran status and other protected characteristics.
 
For more information on how Uniphore uses AI to unify—and humanize—every enterprise experience please visit www.uniphore.com.

Top Skills

Spark
AWS
Azure
BigQuery
GCP
Java
Kafka
Kubernetes
NoSQL
Python
Scala
Snowflake
SQL
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The Company
Bengaluru Karnataka
465 Employees
Year Founded: 2008

What We Do

The Uniphore Business AI Cloud spans agents models knowledge and data combining the simplicity of consumer AI with the rigor security and scalability the enterprise demands. Business users can harness AI effortlessly and deliver outcomes immediately while CIOs gain the foundation to build powerful AI applications embedded into workflows and trained on enterprise data.Built for the Enterprise backed by AI LeadersBacked by NVIDIA AMD Snowflake and Databricks Uniphore brings a unique combination of capital and strategic alignment — validating its position as the definitive Business AI leader. Recent acquisitions of ActionIQ Infoworks Orby AI and Autonom8 further cement Uniphore's AI talent depth and accelerate outcomes for clients.A Complete Composable PlatformUniphore is designed to be:Sovereign — run on any public cloud private cloud or on-premises with full control over your data and AI models.Composable — choose your layer model or component—vector DBs knowledge graphs data compute and beyond.Secure — embedded guardrails observability and AI security ensure trusted compliant and enterprise-grade protection.Trusted at ScaleOver 2000 global businesses — including many of the Fortune 500 — rely on Uniphore every day to drive growth improve efficiency and deliver personalized customer experiences. Customers include leaders across industries like Skechers LastPass Atlassian HP Allstate Sony and more.Industry RecognitionNamed to Inc.'s Best in Business ListListed on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500Recognized in reports by Gartner Forrester and IDCFrom Pilot to ProductionThrough strategic collaborations with industry leaders like KPMG Cognizant Rackspace Databricks and Snowflake Uniphore helps organizations move beyond experimental AI pilots to production-grade deployment — operationalizing AI agents across internal and client-facing workflows at scale.

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