1 day ago
Bengaluru, IndiaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Lead the architectural design and evolution of distributed storage systems across multiple teams and product areas.
- Drive complex, high-impact initiatives spanning multiple services or domains while balancing maintainability, security, and performance.
- Establish technical standards, best practices, technical roadmaps, and engineering culture across teams.
- Design and deliver AI-augmented systems, including prompt engineering, model selection, and evaluation frameworks.
- Own critical storage subsystems or architectural areas with responsibility for scalability, reliability, and security.
- Lead incident analysis and preventive actions for platform-wide issues and set standards for operational readiness and incident response.
- Collaborate with product, security, and operations teams to align technical strategy.
- Work across bare-metal, AWS cloud-native, and hybrid services.
- Mentor engineers and represent engineering perspectives in cross-functional forums.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading large-scale, high-impact engineering initiatives and influencing technical direction beyond a single team.
- Expert knowledge of distributed systems, system design trade-offs, performance engineering, and reliability design for data processing and storage at scale.
- Experience with AWS storage and compute services including EFS, S3, and EKS, or with bare-metal deployments.
- Strong knowledge of data storage technologies including Java, file I/O, NFS, EFS, S3, and Ceph.
- Deep understanding of secure SDLC, compliance, and advanced incident analysis.
- Experience mentoring engineers and leading cross-functional technical initiatives.
- Experience designing and delivering AI-augmented systems, including prompt engineering, model selection, and evaluation frameworks.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- High autonomy and ownership of critical subsystems or architectural areas.
- Demonstrated expertise with Java, JDK 11 or JDK 21, JUnit, and Mockito.
Benefits
- Formal and on-the-job learning opportunities.
- Comprehensive benefits package for employees and family members.
- MacBook and accompanying peripherals for engineers.
- Access to advanced AI tooling and resources.
- Hybrid work model requiring employees to work from the office at least two days per week.
About Mimecast
Mimecast builds cloud services that secure email, web, and collaboration, plus archiving, eDiscovery, and awareness training for organizations. It sells subscription-based cybersecurity and compliance products with deep Microsoft 365 support, used to protect communications and manage human risk. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in London, Mimecast serves over 42,000 customers in 175+ countries and is owned by private equity firm Permira.