Responsibilities
- Lead technical direction across multiple teams and strategic initiatives.
- Design and govern scalable, cloud-native, distributed systems and platforms.
- Define architectural patterns, engineering standards, reusable solutions, technology roadmaps, and architectural decisions.
- Develop and support production-grade applications using Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, and TypeScript.
- Design REST APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures using messaging platforms such as Kafka, Redis Streams, SNS, and SQS.
- Design and operate solutions on AWS, Azure, or GCP using Kubernetes and Docker.
- Build reusable platform capabilities, self-service tooling, and developer-friendly engineering experiences.
- Apply infrastructure as code and GitOps practices using Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, or FluxCD.
- Improve automation, continuous delivery, observability, reliability measures, cloud security, API security, and DevSecOps practices.
- Lead incident investigations and convert findings into lasting engineering improvements.
- Mentor engineers, conduct technical reviews, and contribute to engineering strategy and communities of practice.
Requirements
- Significant software engineering experience operating at Senior, Lead, Principal, or Staff Engineer level.
- Strong hands-on expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, TypeScript, APIs, and distributed systems.
- Deep understanding of microservices, event-driven architecture, asynchronous messaging, and cloud-native development.
- Proven experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, infrastructure as code, platform engineering practices, and continuous delivery.
- Strong background in software architecture, domain-driven design, SOLID principles, observability, reliability, and production operations.
- Ability to influence across teams, mentor engineers, and balance strategic thinking with pragmatic delivery.
- Preferred experience with React, TypeScript, and Next.js.
- Desirable experience with LLMs, RAG, agentic systems, LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, and AI platform engineering.
- Preferred certifications or experience in AWS, Kubernetes, security, architecture, cloud, or AI.
- Experience building high-volume customer-facing platforms and enterprise-scale systems is preferred.
Benefits
- Permanent employment.
- Performance-related pay.
- Access to thousands of learning programs.
- Opportunities to work across the company's global presence in 22 countries.
- Up to 26 weeks of maternity leave and up to 16 weeks of paid paternity leave.
- 21 paid annual leaves and 12 days of paid sick or casual leave per calendar year for eligible employees.
- Relocation support options across India.
- Medical, accidental, and life insurance benefits.
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About Telstra
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