Principal Engineer at DAZN
Principal Engineer
DAZN
On-site
India - Hyderabad
Full-time
Salary not listed
Posted 24 June 2026
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Job Description
Why Join DAZN?
Joining DAZN in Hyderabad means being part of a cutting-edge sports streaming company in a vibrant tech hub. You’ll work alongside passionate, talented professionals on innovative projects that reach millions of fans worldwide. Hyderabad offers a dynamic work environment with a great balance of career growth and lifestyle. If you’re excited about shaping the future of live and on-demand sports entertainment, DAZN Hyderabad is the perfect place to make your mark and grow your career.
- Lead the architectural strategy, design, and development of highly scalable, resilient backend services using Node.js and TypeScript. Take end-to-end ownership of backend services.
- Write highly optimized, clean, maintainable, and testable code, and establish engineering best practices and coding standards for the team.
- Spearhead cross-functional architectural reviews, technical design discussions, and code reviews. Take ownership of key technical decisions.
- Architect and evolve complex distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and microservices ecosystems, ensuring fault tolerance, high availability, and low latency.
- Design robust, cost-effective, and highly scalable cloud-native solutions using AWS services, ensuring multi-region reliability.
- Define and enforce the standards for high performance, scalability, and security of production-grade backend systems.
- Collaborate closely with DevOps/SREs team for deployments, monitoring, and infrastructure automation.
- Leverage deep expertise in distributed systems, data structures, and algorithms to solve the organization's complex engineering and scaling challenges.
- Communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders to ensure alignment across product goals.
- Mentor and coach team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning, technical innovation, and collaboration.
- 10+ years of hands-on backend development experience, with a proven track record in a Principal, Staff, or Architectural role.
- Expert-level proficiency in Node.js, TypeScript, and JavaScript, with a deep understanding of their internal workings and performance optimization.
- Extensive experience designing robust, versioned, and developer-friendly APIs, utilizing tools like Swagger/OpenAPI.
- Hands on experience writing robust unit tests and integration tests.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform or similar IaC tools to design and manage scalable infrastructure architectures.
- Deep expertise in the AWS ecosystem (including SQS, SNS, ECS, S3, Route53, Lambda, and DynamoDB) and designing highly resilient cloud architectures.
- Expert knowledge of database design, optimization, and scaling across both SQL (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g., DynamoDB, MongoDB) paradigms.
- Proven experience architecting, building, and scaling complex distributed, event-driven systems capable of handling high throughput and massive concurrency.
- Experience building & maintaining CI/CD pipelines, preferably using GitHub Actions or equivalent.
- Deep expertise in containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes / ECS) at an enterprise scale.
- Experience with observability, telemetry, and monitoring (CloudWatch, Grafana, etc.) to proactively identify bottlenecks and ensure system health.
- Mastery of software design patterns, system architecture, data structures, and algorithms.
- Exceptional problem-solving skills with the ability to debug complex, cross-service issues in high-stakes production environments.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both engineering teams and non-technical stakeholders.