Senior Staff Software Engineer

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.

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About Role: 

This role will be with a core platform team in Cloud Apps Org in Pune. This team is responsible for providing architectural components for supporting core operations of multiple SaaSApps workloads. 

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer in the platform team, you will be responsible for the design and implementation of software modules owned by a team. Your primary focus will be on the development of all backend server side components and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from different workloads. You will guide and mentor junior team members by reviewing their code and designs to ensure that they are writing well designed and high quality code. This role requires excellent communication skills as you will need to collaborate across teams.

Key Skills

• 6+ years of experience, preferably in a product company.
• Extensive hands-on experience in Go/Python/C/C++/Java/.Net on Unix/Linux or Windows platform.
• Excellent programming skills along with Data structures, Algorithms, Design Concepts
• Strong experience in working with SoA (Service oriented Architecture)
• Experience in Cloud Technologies (AWS/Azure).
• Experience with third party API integrations at scale (preferred).
• Hands-on experience with GenAI based development. (Cursor/Windsurf).

Desirable Skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Familiar with Agile methodologies like Scrum etc.
• Knowledge of the Backup and Recovery domain will be an advantage.
• Working knowledge of Dockers and Kubernetes will be an advantage

Role and Responsibilities:

• The Engineer’s role is to be the technical leader in building enterprise grade scalable, performant systems which deliver the required functionality to the customers delight.
• 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 review design and implementation done by junior engineers.
• Should be able to generate detailed Specs for development via GenAI.
• Should be able to independently handle complex escalations and guide others.
• Be able to write technical blogs and make technical presentations in internal and external forums.

Qualification

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