Senior Staff Engineer - Application Platform

GreyOrange, Inc.; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

GreyOrange, Inc. is seeking a Sr. Staff Engineer to lead architectural design and planning for an enterprise application. You will collaborate with stakeholders to define the strategic vision, translate customer requirements into features, and drive the roadmap across microservices teams.

You will author high-level designs, ensure performance and scalability, and lead PoCs for new technologies to enhance the platform and developer experience.

Qualifications

• Over 8 years of software industry experience, with 1+ year in architect/staff role.
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field from a premier institute.
• Experience with scalable microservices-based distributed systems.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural design and long-term planning for the enterprise app.
• Drive technology roadmap, PoCs, and developer experience improvements.
• Author high-level design documents for cross-module microservices.
• Identify KPIs and implement measurement for performance and scalability.

Skills

Microservices architecture

Low latency queues

REST API design

Architectural patterns

Performance and observability

Design documentation

Education

Bachelors or Masters in CS/Software Eng

CS certifications (bonus)

Tools

Kafka

Kubernetes

Databases

Job description

Role Overview

• The Sr. Staff Engineer will be responsible for leading the architectural design and planning process for an enterprise application.
• This role involves collaboration with stakeholders and driving the strategic vision for the application.
• The candidate must be able to model customer requirement into existing and proposed new features of application.

Responsibilities

• Drive product innovation, technology roadmap and provide long-term vision to developers.
• Author high level design documents for microservices corresponding to cross module design.
• Identify key performance parameters for application and mechanism to measure and report them.
• Develop simulations for breakthrough functional and technical performance.
• Incorporate proper certification/compliance requirements into the product designs.
• Participate in strategic planning for the product vision and roadmap.
• Lead PoC for new technologies to continuously improve technical platform and developer experience.

Must Have

• Experience in development for scalable microservices based distributed systems.
• Skilled in low latency queuing systems.
• Background in microservices-architecture; Skilled in REST API designs.
• Experience with major architecture patterns.
• Well-versed with performance, scalability and observability.
• Ability to write clean design documents.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field from a premier institute.
• Specialization in Computer-Science certifications are an added bonus.
• Over 8 years of experience in the software industry, preferably 1+ years as an architect or Staff Engineer
• Experience with frameworks and libraries relevant to the technology stack.
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to diagnose and resolve complex problems in domains of algorithms, software integration, cloud and deployment.

Good to Have

• Hands-on experience in deployment and performance tuning of databases, Kafka and Kubernetes clusters.
• Effective and innovative ways of using AI based tool for enhanced developer experience.
• Data model based and agentic development