Senior Software Development Engineer

4 days ago

Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

Own the technical vision and long-term evolution of the API Gateway and traffic platform for north-south and east-west traffic across a multi-cloud environment.
Architect and build a unified traffic abstraction layer integrating CDN routing, metadata, configuration tracking, policy control, and automated multi-CDN failover.
Set architectural standards for ingress, traffic routing, and API management while influencing multiple engineering teams.
Lead cross-team initiatives involving networking, platform, SRE, security, and observability to deliver resilient cloud-agnostic ingress solutions.
Design and govern CI/CD and GitOps workflows, including progressive rollouts, automated validation, and rollback strategies.
Advance infrastructure-as-code practices with Terraform, Helm, and Kubernetes through reusable modules, golden paths, and operational guardrails.
Build foundational tooling and services primarily in Go or Python to improve visibility, control, scalability, and operational efficiency.
Define observability standards for traffic systems, including metrics, logs, tracing, SLOs, and production diagnostics.
Mentor senior engineers, review high-impact designs, unblock teams, and raise platform engineering and distributed systems standards.
Identify scaling limits, security gaps, and reliability risks and drive preventative technical investments.

B-Tech or M-Tech in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.
At least 7 years of experience in Infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE roles focused on production traffic, automation, and API delivery.
Expert-level Go or Python programming experience delivering production-grade platforms, internal tooling, and services at scale.
Deep hands-on experience with large-scale API Gateway architecture, rollout strategies, failure handling, and traffic management evolution.
Strong knowledge of CDN architectures and integrations, including Akamai, Fastly, or Cloudflare, cache strategies, request routing, edge security, and failover.
Advanced proficiency with Terraform, Kubernetes, and Helm for infrastructure-as-code and container orchestration.
Deep understanding of networking and distributed systems, including TLS termination, L4/L7 routing, traffic shaping, rate limiting, retries, circuit breaking, and failure isolation.
Experience designing systems with observability, automation, and resiliency as first-class concerns, including metrics, logs, traces, SLIs/SLOs, and automated remediation.
Strong architectural judgment, systems thinking, technical leadership, mentoring ability, and experience influencing decisions across teams.

Full-time onsite role based in Bangalore.
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501-1,000 employees

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