Senior Staff Software Engineer

Role overview

Senior Staff Software Engineer at Druva

Employment details

• Location: Hyderabad [Andhra Pradesh] [India]

About the employer

• 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.
• Visit druva.com and follow us on LinkedIn , X and Facebook .
• About Role:
• This role will be with Cloud Apps Org in Hyderabad, responsible for building key SaaS and Identity workloads.
• This team is responsible for providing architectural components for supporting core operations of multiple SaaSApps workloads.
• As a Senior Staff Software Engineer in the platform team, you will be responsible for the design and implementation 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 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
• 6 – 9 years of experience, preferably in a product company.
• Extensive hands-on experience in Go/Python/C/C++/Java or any other Object-Oriented Language
• Excellent programming skills along with Data structures, Algorithms, Design Concepts
• Strong experience in working with SoA (Service oriented Architecture)
• Experience in Cloud Technologies (AWS/Azure).
• Experience with third party API integrations at scale (preferred).
• Hands-on experience with at least one of the GenAI based development. (Cursor/Claude/Co-pilot/Windsurf/etc).
• Desirable Skills:
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Familiar with Agile methodologies like Scrum etc.
• Knowledge of the Backup and Recovery domain will be an advantage.
• Working knowledge of Dockers and Kubernetes will be an advantage.
• Knowledge of CRM platforms such as Salesforce or Microsoft Dynamics 365, or identity providers such as Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, and Active Directory, will be an advantage.
• Role and 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 customers delight.
• 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 review design and implementation done by junior engineers.
• Should be able to generate detailed Specs for development via GenAI.
• Should be able to independently handle complex escalations and guide others.
• 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

Additional role details

• Senior Staff Software Engineer