Staff Software Engineer

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Software Engineer based in India. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will provide technical leadership across teams while designing and evolving large-scale systems built for scalability, reliability, and long-term maintainability. You will help shape technical strategy, influence product and engineering roadmaps, and guide architectural decisions across multiple teams. The role combines deep hands-on engineering expertise with the ability to solve complex, systemic technical challenges. You will lead modernization, technical-debt reduction, observability, and reliability initiatives that strengthen critical production systems. You will also help accelerate engineering effectiveness through the thoughtful adoption of AI-assisted development practices. Working closely with engineering, product, QA, design, documentation, and technical support teams, you will have broad influence over both technology and business outcomes. This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Software Engineer based in India. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will provide technical leadership across teams while designing and evolving large-scale systems built for scalability, reliability, and long-term maintainability. You will help shape technical strategy, influence product and engineering roadmaps, and guide architectural decisions across multiple teams. The role combines deep hands-on engineering expertise with the ability to solve complex, systemic technical challenges. You will lead modernization, technical-debt reduction, observability, and reliability initiatives that strengthen critical production systems. You will also help accelerate engineering effectiveness through the thoughtful adoption of AI-assisted development practices. Working closely with engineering, product, QA, design, documentation, and technical support teams, you will have broad influence over both technology and business outcomes. Accountabilities: Lead the architecture, design, and evolution of large-scale systems and distributed architectures, ensuring scalability, performance, reliability, and maintainability. Define and guide technical vision and strategy across multiple teams, aligning engineering priorities with long-term product and organizational objectives. Partner with engineering and product leadership to influence technical priorities, roadmap decisions, architectural direction, and investment areas. Establish and promote strong architectural patterns, coding standards, design practices, and engineering principles across teams. Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, design reviews, code reviews, technical guidance, and hands-on problem solving. Lead the investigation and resolution of complex technical issues, including root-cause analysis, production incidents, performance challenges, and systemic reliability concerns. Drive observability, monitoring, incident response, and reliability engineering improvements across production environments. Lead technical-debt reduction and modernization initiatives, including re-platforming strategies and their execution across multiple engineering teams. Identify opportunities to adopt AI-assisted development practices that improve engineering velocity, software quality, developer productivity, and measurable business outcomes. Collaborate with cross-functional partners across Technical Support, QA, Design, Documentation, and Product Management to deliver effective technical solutions. Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership that promotes knowledge sharing, engineering excellence, and consistent technical standards. Influence technical direction across teams without relying on direct reporting authority, building alignment around complex architectural and engineering decisions. Requirements Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated technical leadership across complex, cross-team initiatives. Strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, software architecture, design patterns, and industry-standard engineering practices. Deep experience designing and evolving large-scale, distributed, high-performance systems and architectures. Strong hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating production applications on public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure. Solid understanding of cloud architecture, security best practices, scalability, reliability, and operational considerations. Experience with .NET full-stack and API development across frontend and backend technologies is preferred. Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Rust, C#, or JavaScript. Experience with distributed and microservices-based architectures, Docker, and Kubernetes. Experience with cloud-native infrastructure, serverless architectures, managed Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or Bicep. Understanding of cost-aware cloud resource design and efficient infrastructure utilization. Experience implementing modern authentication and authorization mechanisms, including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and SAML. Strong experience with testing strategies, CI/CD, observability, monitoring, incident response, and reliability engineering at scale. Knowledge of secure coding practices, threat modeling, vulnerability remediation, and modern application security. Experience working with both relational and non-relational data stores. Strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and technical leadership skills. Ability to operate independently, influence senior stakeholders, and drive technical alignment across multiple teams without direct authority. Currently based in Pune or willing to relocate to Pune. Benefits Opportunity to shape technical strategy and architecture across large-scale, business-critical systems. Broad technical influence across multiple engineering teams and product areas. Hands-on exposure to distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, microservices, Kubernetes, and modern infrastructure practices. Opportunity to lead modernization, reliability, observability, and technical-debt reduction initiatives with significant organizational impact. Ability to help shape the adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices and improve developer productivity and software quality. Close collaboration with engineering and product leadership as well as cross-functional technical teams. Strong opportunities for technical mentorship, knowledge sharing, and engineering leadership. Work within a high-performance environment focused on innovation, accountability, and continuous technical improvement. Pune-based opportunity with compensation, healthcare coverage, leave, flexibility, and other employment benefits determined by the hiring company and discussed during the recruitment process. How Jobgether works: We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. 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