Principal Software Engineer

NielsenIQ

Full-time Other-General
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Location
chennai, tamil nadu, India
Posted
June 13, 2026

Job Description

Job Description

Principal Software Engineer – Site Reliability & Application Support, Chennai

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) who defines and drives the reliability strategy for large‑scale, distributed, and cloud‑native applications. This role operates at a company and platform level, bridging the gap between software engineering and operations to ensure our applications are highly available, performant, and resilient at scale. The scope spans the full application stack Angular front‑end, Node. jsservices, Java back‑end, and Python tooling — and encompasses reliability engineering, observability, incident management, and continuous improvement of application health across production environments.
You will act as a technical authority for application reliability and support, leading triage efforts, driving automation to eliminate toil, setting company‑wide SRE standards, and collaboratin...