Senior Staff Software Engineer

About Druva

Druva is the resilience foundation for the AI enterprise, helping organizations secure and recover from connected risk across data, cyber, identity, and AI. The Resilience Cloud is a fully managed, cloud-native SaaS platform that delivers air-gapped and immutable protection across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, endpoint, and edge environments. Powered by Dru MetaGraph, Druva’s graph-powered intelligence layer, the platform connects critical business context so customers can understand risk, respond faster, recover cleanly, and govern data with greater confidence.

Trusted by nearly 7,500 customers, including 75 of the Fortune 500, Druva helps safeguard the critical information and systems businesses depend on in an increasingly connected world.

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Enterprise Workload is a unified server backup and archival built on Druva’s secure, enterprise-trusted, and high-performance cloud platform. With Phoenix, data can be stored indefinitely with limitless snapshots and flexible retention policies, while at the same time significantly lowering your backup costs. Druva takes a multi-layered approach to securing data that is unmatched in the industry – enabling organizations to address both their data security and data privacy requirements.
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer you will be responsible for the design, implementation and maintenance 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 the front end. 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

• AI first mindset - Ability to effectively leverage GenAI while maintaining strong engineering judgment around correctness, security, performance, maintainability, and code quality.
• 6+ years of experience, preferably in a product company, building global scale distributed SaaS applications that handle petabytes of data.
• Extensive hands on experience in Go/Python/C/C++/Java on Unix/Linux or Windows platform
• Strong hands-on experience in designing, managing, and optimizing databases
• Excellent programming skills along with Data structures, Algorithms, Design Concepts
• Experience in working with SoA
• Experience in Cloud Technologies (preferably AWS)
• Experience with third-party API integrations at scale (preferred)
• Experience with virtualization platforms such as VMware vSphere/ESXi; exposure to AHV, Hyper-V, or other hypervisors is a plus.

Desirable Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Familiar with Agile methodologies like Scrum
• Knowledge of the Security or data protection domain will be an
• Working knowledge of Dockers and Kubernetes will be an advantage

Role and Responsibilities

• Play key role in design/development of features
• Gathering & understanding
• Design, development & implementation
• Will be able to work in end to end

Qualification

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