Senior Staff Software Engineer (DataLake)

Druva; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Druva in Pune is looking for a Sr. Software Engineer adept in building scalable and performant systems. In this role, you will closely collaborate with product management while delivering features that satisfy customer needs.

Ideal candidates will have 5-7 years of experience, strong skills in Go/Python/C/C++/Java, and a robust understanding of SaaS applications. The position emphasizes both technical capabilities and teamwork, making communication essential.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of experience in a product company, building SaaS applications.
• Extensive hands-on experience in designing and developing complex products.
• Excellent communication skills for collaboration with other teams.

Responsibilities

• Technical leader in building scalable, performant systems.
• Design and implement large and complex features.
• Guide junior engineers in feature design and implementation.

Skills

AI first mindset to software development

5-7 years experience in SaaS applications

Hands-on experience in Go/Python/C/C++/Java

Data modelling for OLAP workloads

Understanding of data consistency at cloud scale

Hands-on experience with Big data tools

Education

Tech / B.E / M.E / M.Tech in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

About Druva

You won’t just join a company at Druva, you’ll help shape the future of data security at the moment it matters most. We are building a modern standard with our cloud-native solutions, designed to simplify the toughest challenges in cyber resilience for our customers. As the pioneer and market leader in fully managed SaaS data protection, we help organizations secure and recover their data from ransomware, cyberattacks, and operational disruptions without the complexity, cost, or risk of legacy infrastructure.

Our momentum is backed by the market: Druva was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Backup and Data Protection Platforms, a Leader in the 2025 IDC MarketScape for Cyber-Recovery, and a Leader & Outperformer in the 2025 GigaOm Cloud Data Protection Radar. Even better, customers validate that leadership every day through strong Gartner Peer Insights ratings, standout Net Promoter Scores (NPS), and top willingness-to-recommend results.

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, eventual consistency are used along with leveraging various AWS services like S3, DDB, Kinesis. While the core file storage engine provides the backup storage for all the Druva products, allied components like 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.

Sr. Software Engineer

This role requires excellent communication skills as you will collaborate with Product Management to refine requirements, product architects to propose design changes, and other product owners to drive features to completion with good quality.

Key Skills

• AI first mindset to software development, having experience using genAI during various phases of software development lifecycle from design to code to test using tools like 'cursor'
• 5-7 years of experience, preferably in a product company, building global scale distributed SaaS applications that handle petabytes of data.
• Hands-on experience in the design and development of complex products
• Extensive hands-on experience in Go/Python/C/C++/Java on Unix/Linux platforms.

Additional Technical Expertise

• Data modelling for OLAP workloads, Scalability design and query optimisations
• Understanding of data consistency at cloud scale, eventual consistency models
• Hands-on experience with Big data tools and frameworks (Datalake / Lakehouse, ETL) preferably in public cloud ecosystems like AWS and modules like Apache Spark, AWS Glue, Iceberg.

Desirable Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Working knowledge of Dockers and Kubernetes will be an advantage

Role and Responsibilities

• The Sr. Software Engineer's role is to be the technical leader in building enterprise-grade scalable, performant systems which deliver the required functionality to the customers and delight them
• 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

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