Location Details: Pune (Hybrid)

At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time; others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely.​

Hybrid: This is a hybrid position. You’ll divide your time between working remotely from your home and an office, so you should live within commuting distance. Hybrid teams may work in-office as much as a few times a week or as little as once a month or quarter, as decided by leadership. The hiring manager can share more about what hybrid work might look like for this team.

Join Our Team... 

GoDaddy is the biggest services platform for entrepreneurs globally. We aim to empower our 21 million customers and entrepreneurs worldwide by providing them with the necessary help and tools to grow online. 

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to assist in building and strengthening our new-generation Risk platform. GoDaddy is a global product's seller to customers from all over the world. This makes GoDaddy a primary target for fraud and abuse activities. GoDaddy's Risk Platform has a responsibility to stop that activity and forecast and prevent any future activity across GoDaddy. If building anti-fraud software capabilities, out of the box thinking, cloud-based technologies and machine learning sounds exciting to you then you are made for the role!  

Do you want to have a global influence while working from India? Then this is the perfect role for you! GoDaddy is the world's largest web services platform. Our mission is to make opportunity more inclusive for all and fuel a new generation of entrepreneurial endeavours. We are building a modern cloud-native eCommerce platform that will power eCommerce on GoDaddy properties for years to come.  

What you'll get to do...

• Architect and implement innovative solutions by identifying and tackling opportunities in complex systems, and making trade-offs between balancing new technology, providing incremental business value, and simplifying our platform. 
• Enable teams to deliver customer value, drive business growth, and build scalable technology platforms for the future, by sharing expertise, fostering collaboration, and coordinating technical aspects of projects. 
• Improve the observability of our production services, allowing the team to quickly highlight gaps, resolve issues, and understand the performance of our systems. 
• Lead by example with a high standard for coding practices, including practical coding standards, modern software development approaches, test automation, and a strong focus on security.  
• Share your expertise by training and guiding other engineers, encouraging a collaborative and nurturing environment for learning.
• Engage with engineers and partners across the organization to solve problems with broad impact, stay ahead of the curve with new technologies, and advocate for modern and effective tech stacks.

Your experience should include...

• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with a proven track record of driving technology decisions, adopting best practices and principles to deliver high-quality, large scale distributed applications or solutions.  
• 5+ years of experience in multiple programming languages, including Java.  
• Deep understanding of system architecture, event-driven design and distributed systems. 
• Strong understanding of building fault tolerant systems (observability practices, operational excellence).  
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Testing, CICD, Git, Streaming technologies like Kinesis, Relational and no-SQL Databases, and Docker/Kubernetes.  
• Strong communication skills.

You might also have...

• Experience working with frontend technologies. 
• Experience with Risk. 

We've got your back...  We offer a range of total rewards that may include paid time off, retirement savings (e.g., 401k, pension schemes), bonus/incentive eligibility, equity grants, participation in our employee stock purchase plan, competitive health benefits, and other family-friendly benefits including parental leave. GoDaddy’s benefits vary based on individual role and location and can be reviewed in more detail during the interview process.

We also embrace our diverse culture and offer a range of Employee Resource Groups (Culture). Have a side hustle? No problem. We love entrepreneurs! Most importantly, come as you are and make your own way. 

About us...  GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs around the world by providing the help and tools to succeed online, making opportunity more inclusive for all. GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers, sell their products and services, and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights, and people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. To learn more about the company, visit About Us. 

At GoDaddy, we know diverse teams build better products—period. Our people and culture reflect and celebrate that sense of diversity and inclusion in ideas, experiences and perspectives. But we also know that’s not enough to build true equity and belonging in our communities. That’s why we prioritize integrating diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging principles into the core of how we work every day—focusing not only on our employee experience, but also our customer experience and operations. It’s the best way to serve our mission of empowering entrepreneurs everywhere, and making opportunity more inclusive for all. To read more about these commitments, as well as our representation and pay equity data, check out our Diversity and Pay Parity annual report which can be found on our Diversity Careers page.

GoDaddy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. GoDaddy will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements. Refer to our full EEO policy.

Our recruiting team is available to assist you in completing your application. If they could be helpful, please reach out to myrecruiter@godaddy.com. 

GoDaddy doesn’t accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies.