Staff Software Engineer, Device Management - India

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

JumpCloud is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to drive complex engineering initiatives for a distributed, remote-first team focusing on cloud-based identity and device management platforms.

The role emphasizes architectural leadership, collaboration with product and UX, and mentoring peers across multiple teams, with a strong foundation in Go and cloud-native technologies.

Qualifications

• 12+ years engineering experience and leadership of complex projects.
• Cloud technologies and SaaS architecture experience.
• Strong Go knowledge; familiarity with Java or TypeScript.
• MDM/Device management domain knowledge a plus.
• Distributed systems experience and databases.
• Public cloud, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional projects and tackle large engineering problems.
• Research with limited requirements; collaborate with UX and PMs.
• Decompose complex problems into simple solutions.
• Influence architecture for high availability and performance.
• Drive strategy with engineers and architects across teams.
• Mentor engineers and guide career development.
• Partner with product management to empower initiatives.
• Balance technical leadership with business judgment.

Skills

Go

Java

TypeScript

Microservices

SaaS architecture

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Leadership

Tools

GitHub Actions

Docker

AWS

Job description

About JumpCloud®

JumpCloud® is the AI-powered unified IT management platform designed to secure the modern workforce. By consolidating identity, device, and access management, JumpCloud provides intelligent, secure IT that scales from human users to autonomous AI agents. We help organizations around the globe eliminate complexity and turn AI risk into an optimized advantage, ensuring the right people and agents have secure access to the right resources at all times.

About the Role:

As we continue to grow JumpCloud internationally, we are hiring a Staff Software engineer for JumpCloud India. You’ll have the opportunity to play a key role in the success and development of our engineering teams in addition to growing your own career. We are seeking a senior engineer who is passionate about building great products with forward looking vision. You will be responsible for building new technology initiatives. You’ll build out features, help drive architecture, define best practices and enable platform quality.

What you’ll be doing:

• Regularly tackle the largest and most complex problems on the team. Serve as a technical leader on cross-functional projects.
• Have to work with limited visibility of requirements, carry out independent research and experiments and collaborate with User eXperience (UX) and Product Managers to come up with the requirements.
• Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions.
• Exert technical influence to help teams build highly available, reliable and performant solutions by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.
• Work alongside other Principal Engineers and Architects to drive a shared strategy across our teams
• Partner across engineering as well as product management teams to empower initiatives that will impact and benefit multiple teams
• Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals on advanced technical issues
• Balance technical leadership and savvy with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices.

We’re looking for:

• 12+ years experience as an engineer and leading complex engineering projects
• Experience with cloud technologies, Micro services, SAAS architecture
• Strong knowledge of Go and familiarity of Java, Typescript or other programming languages
• Domain expertise of Apple/Windows/Android Device Management and policy enforcement
• MDM & Endpoint Expertise: Deep domain knowledge of Device Management architectures (policy management, enrollment, Apple Push Notification service) across macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android.
• Hands-on experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containerization (Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines (preferably GitHub Actions).
• Experience of working in a distributed systems environment, Databases
• Experience with Designing/architecting solutions involving various services, front end and Database
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills to help technically drive and oversee complex projects on multiple teams from conception to completion
• Ability to work with ambiguity and drive clarity while delivering incremental value
• Proven ability to thrive in a fast-moving, team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Strong technical foundation in software engineering design principles
• Experience working with geographically diverse engineering teams in today’s remote first work environment