Principal Software Engineer – Microscopy Data Management mp; Cloud Platform

📋 Description

• Design and build a distributed data management platform for microscopy and life-science workflows.
• Architect scalable storage, indexing, search, caching, and high-throughput transfer across hybrid
• Create backend APIs, contracts, and schemas for instrument control, image-analysis apps, UIs, and
• Develop reliable data-transfer pipelines between instruments, local systems, and cloud.
• Build high-performance ingestion, streaming, and transformation for large datasets and metadata.
• Ensure data integrity, traceability, versioning, reproducibility, and auditability.

🎯 Requirements

• Master’s degree in STEM or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years in software engineering; experience with complex distributed backends/data platforms.
• Strong Python and C# skills.
• Deep DB design, schema evolution, query optimization, transactions, indexing, data security
• Backend APIs with REST and/or gRPC; contract versioning and governance.
• Networking know-how: HTTP/2, gRPC, TCP/IP, latency/throughput trade-offs.

🎁 Benefits

• Full-time, fully remote position based in India.
• Opportunity to work on advanced scientific data-management and microscopy platforms.
• Significant technical ownership across distributed systems, cloud architecture, data engineering.
• Influence architecture, engineering standards, reliability, security, platform strategy at
• Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams across software engineering, cloud, imaging
• Exposure to AWS and large-scale datasets in hybrid environments.