Staff Software Development Engineer

Clearwater Analytics; Dadri; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Clearwater Analytics seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer to lead the ACIO systems architecture and design of large-scale financial data processing.

You will set architectural standards, drive multi-team initiatives, and mentor engineers while advancing observability, security, and performance.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of professional software development experience.
• 5+ years acting in an architecture or principal engineering capacity.
• Experience designing enterprise-grade distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end architecture of Clearwater ACIO systems for scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Define architectural standards and best practices for distributed systems.
• Lead multi-team, multi-service projects to ensure timely, high-quality delivery at scale.
• Mentor senior engineers in architecture thinking and distributed systems development.
• Drive observability, deployment automation, and security/compliance improvements.

Skills

Distributed systems

Leadership

Microservices

Data streaming

Public cloud

Java

Python

Go

Kafka

AWS

Kinesis

Azure

GCP

Communication

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS

Tools

Kafka

AWS

Kinesis

Azure

GCP

Job description

TheStaff Software Development Engineerrole withinClearwater’s Agentic Client Interactions & Orchestration(ACIO) is a senior technical leadership position focused onarchitecting, designing, and delivering large-scale distributed systemsthat power critical financial reporting and analytics. This role requires deep expertise inscalable system design,agentic architecture,cloud-native platforms, and high-performance data processing.

Responsibilities

Architecture & Design Leadership

• Own theend-to-end architectureof Clearwater ACIO systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance in large-scale financial data processing.
• Define, document, and communicate architectural standards, patterns, and best practices for distributed systems.
• Evaluate and implement design patterns for fault tolerance, high availability, and horizontal scalability.
• Collaborate with product managers, data architects, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into system-level designs and technical roadmaps.
• Conduct architectural reviews and provide engineering guidance to ensure alignment with strategic technology vision.

Technical Strategy & Delivery

• Lead the technical strategy, operational excellence, and professional delivery across multiple domains in Clearwater.
• Drive improvements in system observability, maintainability, and deployment automation.
• Ensure designs and implementations meet security, compliance, and performance benchmarks.
• Oversee execution ofmulti-team, multi-service projects, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery at scale.

Mentorship & Collaboration

• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers in architecture thinking, technical design, and distributed systems development.
• Build strong relationships with teams across divisions to facilitate cross-system integration and shared technology improvements.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging architectures, and cloud technologies.
• Identify opportunities for re-architecting or optimizing existing systems to improve throughput, latency, and cost-efficiency.
• Foster a culture of innovation, scalability, and engineering excellence across FO Reporting and broader Clearwater teams.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Provenarchitecture and design expertiseinlarge-scale distributed systems, preferably in financial or analytics platforms.
• Exceptional leadership skills and ability to lead through influence as atechnical architect or senior tech lead.
• Strong knowledge ofmicroservices architecture,event-driven systems, anddata streaming platforms(Kafka, AWS Kinesis, etc.).
• Hands-on experience withpublic cloud providers(AWS, Azure, GCP), including scaling, cost optimization, and multi-region deployments.
• Proficiency in one or more modern languages (Java, Python, Go, or similar) with deep understanding of concurrency, memory management, and performance tuning.
• Strong understanding ofdistributed data storage,database scaling, andquery optimizationtechniques.
• Worked on agentic conversational UX design and architecture.
• Developed and deployed systems with complex SLAs in production environments serving high-volume traffic/data.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to clearly convey architectural decisions and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Commitment to continuous technical learning, improvement, and community knowledge sharing.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical discipline.
• 15+ yearsof professional software development experience;5+ yearsacting in an architecture or principal engineering capacity.
• Track record of designing and implementing enterprise-grade distributed systemsand owning them through full lifecycle (design build deploy maintain).