Principal Engineer

About Druva:Druva enables cyber, data and operational resilience for every organization with the Data Resiliency Cloud, the industry’s first and only at-scale SaaS solution. Customers can radically simplify data protection, streamline data governance, and gain data visibility and insights as they accelerate cloud adoption. Druva pioneered a SaaS-based approach to eliminate complex infrastructure and related management costs and deliver data resilience via a single platform spanning multiple geographies and clouds.Druva is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including 60 of Fortune 500, to make data more resilient and accelerate their journey to the cloud. Visit druva.com and follow us on LinkedIn, X and Facebook. 
About Role : The Foundation team at Druva is responsible for designing a highly performant and scalable cloud file system on the Druva cloud in AWS. To build this petabyte-scale, distributed, services-oriented cloud file system various key concepts like file system metadata, versioning, and eventual consistency are used along with leveraging various AWS services like S3, DDB, and Kinesis. While the core file storage engine provides the backup storage for all the Druva products, allied components like the indexing engine, key-value store, and big data pipeline provide scalable search, analytics, and compliance services. The team diligently keeps track of newer services, storage tiers, and various aspects of existing AWS services to take advantage of the continuous evolution of services and use them effectively in the background.As a Principal Engineer, you will be providing technical leadership to create high-quality software by owning the architecture, design and implementation of services within a product. You will be responsible for the technical guidance and mentoring of a team. This role will require excellent communication skills as you will collaborate with Product Management to refine requirements, product architects to propose architectural changes and other product owners to drive features to completion with good quality.
Key Skill: 

• 9-12 years of experience, preferably in a product company.
• Hands-on experience in the design and development of complex products 
• Strong experience in system programming
• Extensive hands-on experience in Go/Python/C/C++ on Unix/Linux or Windows platforms along with storage technologies.
• A strong understanding of complex concepts related to computer architecture, data structures, algorithms, design concepts and programming practices.
• Experience in working with SoA (Service-oriented Architecture)

Desirable Skills: 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Familiar with Agile methodologies like Scrum etc.
• Experience in Storage or Cloud Technologies (preferably AWS) will be advantageous
• Working knowledge of Dockers and Kubernetes will be an advantage 

Role and Responsibilities:

• 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.Tech / B.E / M.E./ M.Tech (Computer Science) or equivalent.