Senior Staff Software Engineer
Druva
Pune, Maharashtra, IndiaPosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
Druva Cloud PlatformSoftware EngineerSoftware DeveloperData StructuresMicroservicesKubernetesPythonC++LinuxAgileGenerative AIJavaAWS
Key highlights
- 6+ years of experience required
- Senior Staff Software Engineer role
- Focus on backend server-side development
- Experience with GenAI-based development required
- Cloud Technologies (preferably AWS) experience required
- B.Tech / B.E. / M.E. / M.Tech (Computer Science) or equivalent qualification required
Role overview
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. The Cloud Platform Team at Druva drives the backbone of everything SaaS-related, designing and developing features for both customer-facing needs and internal stakeholders. This team plays a pivotal role in evolving Druva's architecture as the company scales, with key focus areas including Druva Cloud Platform, Product-Led Growth (PLG), Ecosystem & Integrations, Licensing, and Agentic AI platform. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will be responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of software modules, focusing on backend server-side development, ensuring high performance, and mentoring junior team members while collaborating across teams.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
- Technically guide junior engineers with feature design and review the design and implementation done by junior engineers.
- Generate detailed specs for development via GenAI.
- Independently handle complex escalations and guide others.
- Development of all backend server-side components and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front end.
- Review code and designs of junior team members to ensure well-designed and high-quality code.
- Collaborate across teams.
Requirements
- 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).
- Experience in working with Microservices.
- Experience in Cloud Technologies (preferably AWS).
- B.Tech / B.E. / M.E. / M.Tech (Computer Science) or equivalent.
Nice to have
- Experience with third-party API integrations at scale.
- 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 Docker and Kubernetes will be an advantage.
Additional details
- Visit druva.com and follow us on LinkedIn, X and Facebook.
- Key focus areas for the Platform Organization include Druva Cloud Platform, Product-Led Growth (PLG), Ecosystem & Integrations, Licensing and Agentic AI platform.