About Druva
Druva is the resilience foundation for the AI enterprise, helping organizations secure and recover from connected risk across data, cyber, identity, and AI. The Resilience Cloud is a fully managed, cloud-native SaaS platform that delivers air-gapped and immutable protection across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, endpoint, and edge environments. Powered by Dru MetaGraph, Druva’s graph-powered intelligence layer, the platform connects critical business context so customers can understand risk, respond faster, recover cleanly, and govern data with greater confidence.
Trusted by nearly 7,500 customers, including 75 of the Fortune 500, Druva helps safeguard the critical information and systems businesses depend on in an increasingly connected world.
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Cloud Platform Team at Druva drives the backbone of everything SaaS related. This team designs and develops features that cater to both Customer facing needs and internal stakeholders, playing a pivotal role in evolving Druva's architecture, as the company scales further. Key focus areas for the Platform Organization include Druva Cloud Platform, Product-Led Growth (PLG), Ecosystem & Integrations, Licensing and Agentic AI platform . By tackling these critical domains, the team ensures Druva’s platform remains robust, scalable, and ready for the future.
About Role :
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will be responsible for the design, implementation and maintenance of software modules owned by a team. Your primary focus will be on the development of all backend server-side components and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front end. You will guide and mentor junior team members by reviewing their code and designs to ensure that they are writing well-designed and high-quality code. This role requires excellent communication skills as you will need to collaborate across teams.
Key Skills
- 6+ years of experience, preferably in a product company.
- Extensive hands-on experience in Go/Python/C++/Java on Unix/Linux or Windows platform.
- Excellent programming skills along with Data Structures, Algorithms, and Design Concepts.
- Strong experience in working with SoA (Service-Oriented Architecture).
- Hands-on experience with GenAI-based development with extensive prompts and preferably spec-based development (Cursor/Gemini). Note that just using vibe coding or peripheral AI chat doesn't.
- Experience in working with Microservices.
- Experience in Cloud Technologies (preferably AWS).
- Experience with third-party API integrations at scale (preferred).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Familiar with Agile methodologies like Scrum, etc.
- Knowledge of the SaaS or Backup domain will be an advantage.
- Working knowledge of Dockers and Kubernetes will be an advantage.
- The Engineer's role is to be the technical leader in building enterprise-grade, scalable, performant systems which deliver the required functionality to the customer's delight.
- Should be able to design and implement sufficiently large and complex features and/or architectural improvements to the product.
- Suggest and propose solutions to complex design problems.
- Identify areas of engineering improvements to the product and work with product architects and the team to address them.
- Should be able to technically guide junior engineers with feature design and review the design and implementation done by junior engineers.
- Should be able to generate detailed specs for development via GenAI.
- Should be able to independently handle complex escalations and guide others.
- B.Tech / B.E. / M.E. / M.Tech (Computer Science) or equivalent.
Skills Required
- 6+ years of experience (preferably in a product company)
- B.Tech / B.E. / M.E. / M.Tech (Computer Science) or equivalent
- Hands-on experience in Go, Python, C++, or Java on Unix/Linux or Windows platforms
- Strong programming skills including Data Structures, Algorithms, and Design Concepts
- Experience working with Service-Oriented Architecture (SoA)
- Hands-on GenAI-based development with extensive prompts and spec-based development (Cursor/Gemini)
- Experience working with Microservices
- Experience in Cloud technologies (preferably AWS)
- Experience with third-party API integrations at scale
- Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies (Scrum)
- Knowledge of SaaS or Backup domain
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Druva Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Druva and has not been reviewed or approved by Druva.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive in the U.S., with medical, dental/vision, mental-health programs, and an Employee Assistance Program. Day-one eligibility is cited, and feedback suggests healthcare is a strong part of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is framed around a flexible Rest & Re‑Energize approach, with multiple mentions of open/unlimited PTO and paid holidays. Feedback suggests employees value the flexibility and immediate access to leave.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental and family benefits include paid maternity, paternity, adoption, and family medical leave. Coverage extends to family-building support such as fertility and adoption expense funding, which feedback suggests is a differentiator.
Druva Insights
What We Do
Druva delivers data protection and management for the cloud era. Druva Cloud Platform is built on AWS and offered as-a-Service; customers drive down costs by over 50 percent by freeing themselves from the burden of unnecessary hardware, capacity planning, and software management.
Why Work With Us
We are the leader in cloud data protection and cloud is the way of the future! With over $300M in funding and our Pre-IPO status, it is the perfect time to jump on board. Two of our company values are "challenger mentality" and "one team". We truly believe in the impact we can make together and we are not afraid to push the status quo.
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