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As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will be providing technical leadership to create high-quality software by owning low level , design and implementation of services within a product. This role will require excellent communication skills as you will collaborate with Product Management to refine requirements, product architects to propose design changes, and other product owners to drive features to completion with good quality.
Key Skill
- AI first mindset to software development, having experience using genAI during various phases of software development lifecycle from design to code to test using tools like 'cursor'
- 5-7 years of experience, preferably in a product company, building global scale distributed SaaS applications that handle petabytes of data.
- Hands-on experience in the design and development of complex products
- Extensive hands-on experience in Go/Python/C/C++/Java on Unix/Linux platforms.
- A strong understanding of complex concepts related to computer architecture, data structures, algorithms, design concepts, and programming practices.
- Data modelling for OLAP workloads, Scalability design and query optimisations
- Understanding of data consistency at cloud scale, eventual consistency models
- Hands on experience with Big data tools and frameworks (Datalake / Lakehouse, ETL) preferably in public cloud ecosystems like AWS and modules like Apache Spark, AWS Glue, Iceberg.
Desirable Skills:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Working knowledge of Dockers and Kubernetes will be an advantage
Role and Responsibilities:
- The Senior Software Engineer's role is to be the technical leader in building enterprise-grade scalable, performant systems which deliver the required functionality to the customers and delight them
- 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 implementation.
- Review design and implementation done by junior engineers.
- Should be able to independently handle complex escalations and guide others as required.
- Be able to write technical blogs and make technical presentations in internal and external forums
Qualification
- B.E / B Tech M.E./ M.Tech (Computer Science) or equivalent
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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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