GoDaddy is hiring a

Principal Software Engineer

Gurugram, India

Location Details: India, Gurugram

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.​

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

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 fuel a new generation of entrepreneurial endeavors by providing the best suite of products for our customers. The eCommerce organisation builds the platform that is the backbone of all commercial activity on GoDaddy.com and any of its partner brands. We are building a modern cloud-native eCommerce platform that will power eCommerce on GoDaddy for years to come all while embracing the challenges of sunsetting our legacy services and delivering value.

In 2022, GoDaddy established a new Development Centre in New Delhi to support our aggressive growth plans in India and abroad. We are growing this development center to drive multiple new initiatives in India as well as around the world!

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to assist in building new core eCommerce Transaction Processing Systems. GoDaddy has millions of subscriptions and processes millions of orders from customers all over the world. These products must traverse our services efficiently and accurately to provide the best customer experience and contribute to the success of our company. Our transaction systems are the foundations of GoDaddy eCommerce. Does running super-important, hardened systems sound exciting to you? Then you are made for this role.

What you will get to do

  • You will build secure, highly available, fault tolerant, and globally performant micro-service-based platforms deployed on the AWS cloud. These worlds class distributed systems will highlight their interoperability as they plug into our billion-dollar ecosystem seamlessly
  • You will play a vital role implementing core strategies to sunset our existing legacy systems without impacting our customers or global capabilities and build solutions which are measurable and help accelerate the adoption of our new services
  • You will work in a scrum team and join forces with engineers, product managers, architects, and sales and services representatives from within and outside of the eCommerce division

Your experience should include

  • 10+ years technology experience in a software engineering role and building large scale distributed applications or solutions
  • Strong experience in programming languages such as Java (preferred), Python, Node, Golang, etc
  • Solid foundation in data structures such as JSON, XML, and SOAP, as well as software designs, micro-services, and containers
  • 3+ years of cloud computing experience using publicly available services, AWS is an advantage
  • Experience with relational and no-SQL databases such as DynamoDB, MySQL, and SQL Server
  • Experience with writing unit, integration, and smoke tests
  • Experience of working in agile teams
  • Familiarity with version control software, Git is helpful
  • Experience in testing and deploying code using CI/CD technologies and patterns such as GitHub action workflows, Git, Git flow, Jenkins, etc
  • Familiarity with application performance monitoring tools such as ElasticAPM, ESSP, Newrelic

We've got your back...  We offer a range of benefits that may include paid time off, retirement savings (e.g., 401k, pension schemes), incentive eligibility, equity grants, participation in an employee stock purchase plan, 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 [email protected]. 

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

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