Senior Software Engineer (Java)

Grid Dynamics; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible schedule

Medical insurance

Vision & dental

Professional development

Well-equipped office

Travel for onboarding/meetings

Job summary

Grid Dynamics is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in the United States to advance platform capabilities, automation, observability, and engineering tooling. You will collaborate with In-Memory DB Platform, Core, and SRE teams to solve high-impact challenges and build scalable solutions.

You’ll contribute to automation, reliability, and developer productivity while reducing operational complexity across services and teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong proficiency in Java and production backend systems.
• Experience with distributed data stores like Cassandra, Redis, Valkey, or MongoDB.
• Experience designing RESTful services and high-performance backends.
• Kubernetes experience and CI/CD automation knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop automation and platform tooling for scale and reliability.
• Improve observability with metrics, dashboards, alerting, logs, and tracing.
• Automate cluster lifecycle management, diagnostics, and workflows.
• Investigate complex distributed-system issues and improve performance and reliability.
• Build CI/CD automation to enable safe development and deployment of platform services.
• Collaborate across Platform, Core, and SRE teams and document architecture.

Skills

Java

Backend development

Distributed systems

System design

Independent work

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Gradle

Jenkins

Spinnaker

GitHub

Job description

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is focused on developing platform capabilities, automation, observability, and engineering tooling that improve scalability, reliability, and developer productivity while reducing operational complexity. This person will work closely with engineers across the In-Memory Database Platform, Core, and SRE teams to solve high-impact engineering problems and build scalable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop automation and platform tooling to operate and scale Valkey reliably and efficiently.
• Build and enhance observability capabilities, including metrics, dashboards, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing.
• Develop tooling and automation for cluster lifecycle management, diagnostics, and other operational workflows, reducing manual intervention and operational complexity.
• Investigate complex distributed-system and performance issues and implement solutions that improve platform reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Build and improve CI/CD automation and engineering tooling to enable safe and efficient development and deployment of platform services.
• Collaborate with Platform, Core, and SRE engineers on architecture, APIs, automation, and tooling, and contribute to the technical documentation needed to develop and maintain the platform.

Requirements

• Strong proficiency in Java and experience developing production backend systems.
• Experience with at least one scalable distributed data store such as Cassandra, Redis, Valkey, or MongoDB.
• Experience designing and building RESTful services and resilient, high-performance backend components.
• Experience with Kubernetes and developing or deploying applications in containerized environments.
• Experience building CI/CD automation using technologies such as Gradle, Jenkins, Spinnaker, and GitHub.
• Experience developing or integrating observability capabilities, including metrics, dashboards, alerting, logging, or tracing for distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of distributed-system principles, including high availability, scalability, fault tolerance, and performance.
• Ability to investigate complex system behavior and translate operational or scalability challenges into engineering solutions.
• Comfortable working independently on ambiguous engineering problems and collaborating across multiple teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Nice to have

• Experience developing platforms or tooling for Redis, Valkey, or other large-scale distributed database systems.
• Experience building automation for database provisioning, configuration, upgrades, scaling, failover, or other cluster lifecycle operations.
• Experience developing internal platforms, control planes, or infrastructure automation used by other engineering teams.
• Experience with scalable messaging systems such as Kafka or RocketMQ.

We offer

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects
• Work with a highly motivated and dedicated team
• Competitive salary
• Flexible schedule
• Benefits package - medical insurance, vision, dental, etc.
• Corporate social events
• Professional development opportunities
• Well-equipped office
• Please note that all onboarding must occur in person and you may be asked to travel to attend

About Us

Grid Dynamics (NASDAQ: GDYN) is a leading provider of technology consulting, platform and product engineering, AI, and advanced analytics services. Fusing technical vision with business acumen, we solve the most pressing technical challenges and enable positive business outcomes for enterprise companies undergoing business transformation. A key differentiator for Grid Dynamics is our 8 years of experience and leadership in enterprise AI, supported by profound expertise and ongoing investment in data, analytics, cloud & DevOps, application modernization and customer experience. Founded in 2006, Grid Dynamics is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices across the Americas, Europe, and India.