Senior Staff Software Engineer - Database Expert

Druva is the leading provider of data security solutions, empowering customers to secure and recover their data from all threats. The Druva Data Security Cloud is a fully managed SaaS solution offering air-gapped and immutable data protection across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. By centralizing data protection, Druva enhances traditional security measures and enables faster incident response, effective cyber remediation, and robust data governance. Trusted by nearly 7,500 customers, including 75 of the Fortune 500, Druva safeguards business data in an increasingly interconnected world. Visit druva.com and follow us on LinkedIn, X and Facebook.

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 to software development, having experience using genAI during various phases of software development lifecycle from design to code to test using tools like 'cursor'
• 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)

Desirable Skills:

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

Role and Responsibilities:

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

Qualification:

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