Senior Lead/Principal Software Engineer

We are seeking a Principal Engineer to drive innovation across our AI-powered data experience and platform infrastructure.

This role combines leading the development of AI-powered data querying - enabling users to ask business questions in natural language and receive actionable insights - while shaping the evolution of our data quality tools, and analytical engines such as StarRocks.

As a senior technical leader, you will operate across AI, data infrastructure, and reliability domains, driving high-impact initiatives and serving as a key technical authority across the organization.

This position is based in Bangkok, Thailand. (Relocation support is provided)

In this Role, you'll get to :

- Lead the development of AI-powered data querying solutions, enabling users to ask business questions in natural language and receive actionable insights.

- Architect and develop scalable data quality tools and frameworks to ensure reliable and trustworthy data.

- Act as a hands-on technical leader, tackling complex challenges across AI query engines, data quality systems, and analytical engines.

- Collaborate with TPMs and stakeholders to define and drive the technical vision and roadmap for AI-driven querying, query engines, and data quality tools.

- Mentor engineers and raise standards across data quality & governance tools, query engines, and the broader data platform.

What you'll Need to Succeed :

- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, or related fields.

Strong hands-on experience with :

- SQL and large-scale data systems.

- Modern analytical databases / data warehouses (e.g., StarRocks, Snowflake, BigQuery, ClickHouse).

- Backend development (e.g., Python, Java, Scala or similar).

Experience building or working with :

- AI/LLM-based applications (e.g., text-to-SQL, conversational interfaces, cursor, copilots).

- Data platforms or analytical infrastructure at scale.

- Strong understanding of data modeling, query execution, and performance optimization.

- Proven ability to lead cross-team, high-impact technical initiatives.

- Ability to navigate between deep hands-on work and strategic technical leadership.

- Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

It's Great if you have :

- Experience with text-to-SQL systems or AI-driven data interfaces.

- Experience implementing or scaling analytical engines such as StarRocks.

- Background in data observability, quality, or governance frameworks.

- Experience with tools like dbt, Airflow, Spark, or similar.

(ref:hirist.tech)