About Druva
You won’t just join a company at Druva, you’ll help shape the future of data security at the moment it matters most. We are building a modern standard with our cloud-native solutions, designed to simplify the toughest challenges in cyber resilience for our customers. As the pioneer and market leader in fully managed SaaS data protection, we help organizations secure and recover their data from ransomware, cyberattacks, and operational disruptions without the complexity, cost, or risk of legacy infrastructure.
Our momentum is backed by the market: Druva was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Backup and Data Protection Platforms, a Leader in the 2025 IDC MarketScape for Cyber-Recovery, and a Leader & Outperformer in the 2025 GigaOm Cloud Data Protection Radar. Even better, customers validate that leadership every day through strong Gartner Peer Insights ratings, standout Net Promoter Scores (NPS), and top willingness-to-recommend results.
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Enterprise Workload is a unified server backup and archival built on Druva’s secure, enterprise-trusted, and high-performance cloud platform. With Phoenix, data can be stored indefinitely with limitless snapshots and flexible retention policies, while at the same time significantly lowering your backup costs. Druva takes a multi-layered approach to securing data that is unmatched in the industry – enabling organizations to address both their data security and data privacy requirements.
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
- AI first mindset - Ability to effectively leverage GenAI while maintaining strong engineering judgment around correctness, security, performance, maintainability, and code quality.
- 6+ years of experience, preferably in a product company, building global scale distributed SaaS applications that handle petabytes of data.
- Extensive hands on experience in Go/Python/C/C++/Java on Unix/Linux or Windows platform
- Strong hands-on experience in designing, managing, and optimizing databases
- Excellent programming skills along with Data structures, Algorithms, Design Concepts
- Experience in working with SoA
- Experience in Cloud Technologies (preferably AWS)
- Experience with third-party API integrations at scale (preferred)
- Experience with virtualization platforms such as VMware vSphere/ESXi; exposure to AHV, Hyper-V, or other hypervisors is a plus.
Desirable Skills:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Familiar with Agile methodologies like Scrum
- Knowledge of the Security or data protection domain will be an
- Working knowledge of Dockers and Kubernetes will be an advantage
Role and Responsibilities:
- Play key role in design/development of features
- Gathering & understanding
- Design, development & implementation
- Will be able to work in end to end
Qualification:
- B Tech / E / M.E./ M.Tech (Computer Science) or equivalent.
Skills Required
- 6+ years of experience building global-scale distributed SaaS applications, preferably in a product company
- Hands-on experience with Go, Python, C, C++, or Java
- Experience developing on Unix/Linux or Windows platforms
- Strong experience designing, managing, and optimizing databases
- Excellent programming skills in data structures, algorithms, and design concepts
- Experience with service-oriented architecture
- Experience with cloud technologies, preferably AWS
- Experience with virtualization platforms such as VMware vSphere/ESXi
- B.Tech, B.E., M.E., M.Tech in Computer Science, or equivalent
- Experience with third-party API integrations at scale
- Exposure to AHV, Hyper-V, or other hypervisors
- Knowledge of the security or data protection domain
- Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies such as Scrum
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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