Principal Engineer

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 Software 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 Skills:

• 7 - 10 years of experience, preferably in a product company.
• Hands-on experience in the design and development of complex products
• Extensive hands-on experience in Go/Python/Java/C#/C++ on Unix/Linux or Windows platforms
• Strong technical leader with excellent communication skills who can collaborate with cross-functional technical teams to meet the solution architecture needs of the product and who can influence and drive architecture, design and implementation of a system for timely business results and outcomes.
• Experience in working with microservices 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:

• Work with cross-functional development, product management and sales engineering teams to define the solution architecture for platform services and its various features and capabilities.
• Continuously assess emerging trends in data security and data management platforms, applications, technologies, tools and API to help build and refine solution architecture for the existing as well as any new product.
• Drive the engineering teams in adopting and integrating applications and tools into the tech stack for a highly integrated product experience and quality.
• Drive the engineering team in adopting best practices and principles of high quality SaaS software development
• Mentor, guide and train engineers on data management and data security as well as principles of high quality and high-velocity development in general.

Qualification:

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