Staff Backend Engineer — Java, AWS & Microservices

Embedded Shishya; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave

Diversity and inclusion groups

Flexible working practices

Job summary

Sonatype is building the technology that powers secure software development for thousands of organizations worldwide. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will design, develop, and maintain core services enabling provisioning, licensing, and purchasing of products at scale.

You will mentor teammates, participate in architectural decisions, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, high-quality software.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience developing production-grade applications.
• Direct experience using agent-driven development and code review.
• Strong experience building backend applications with Java.
• Experience with additional programming languages like Golang and Python.
• Experience working with cloud platforms, particularly AWS.
• Hands-on experience with containerization and infrastructure technologies such as Docker, Terraform, and Ansible.
• Experience with build and dependency management tools such as Maven.
• Experience working with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and microservices.
• Strong understanding of software design principles, testing, debugging, and distributed systems.
• A collaborative mindset with excellent communication skills and a passion for mentoring fellow engineers.
• A desire to remain highly technical and hands-on while contributing technical leadership within the team.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain software that powers product provisioning, licensing, and purchasing capabilities across Sonatype's platform.
• Build scalable, reliable, and maintainable backend services using modern engineering practices.
• Contribute to technical design discussions and help drive high-quality architectural decisions.
• Collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and cross-functional teams to deliver impactful features.
• Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code while participating in code reviews.
• Troubleshoot production issues and continuously improve system performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Mentor and coach other engineers through technical guidance, design reviews, and knowledge sharing while remaining deeply involved in day-to-day development.
• Contribute to automation, infrastructure improvements, and cloud-native engineering practices.

Skills

Java

Golang

Python

AWS Cloud

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

Maven

PostgreSQL

Microservices

CI/CD

Code reviews

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Git

Tools

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Git

Job description

Sonatype is building the technology that powers secure software development for thousands of organizations worldwide. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will design, develop, and maintain core services enabling provisioning, licensing, and purchasing of products at scale.

You will mentor teammates, participate in architectural decisions, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, high-quality software.