Staff Software Engineer
On-siteHyderabad, Telangana, India
Job Summary
Own the year-over-year technical strategy and product roadmap for the Internal Developer Portal, driving initiatives that enhance developer productivity and service ownership. Architect, build, and maintain full-stack features leveraging modern web technologies for the frontend and scalable backend systems for data aggregation. Lead the design of developer-centric UI workflows, simplifying complex processes such as service creation, dependency mapping, and operational dashboarding. Implement comprehensive measurement frameworks to track usage metrics and platform health, continuously iterating based on data-driven insights. Collaborate with engineering leadership and cross-functional teams to drive adoption of platform standards, ensuring consistent access to tools and workflows across the organization. Participate in on-call rotations, owning the resolution of operational issues within your sphere of responsibility and actively reducing sources of toil. Coordinate effectively across time zones to align on project status, resolve dependencies, and ensure smooth hand-offs with engineering partners.
Required Qualifications
- 12+ years of professional experience in high-scale production environments
- proven track record of bridging the gap between robust software engineering and infrastructure operations
- highly proficient in TypeScript
- proficient in backend languages like Go or Python
- comfortable modeling complex relationships in both relational (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and non-relational (DynamoDB) databases
- deep expertise in infrastructure-adjacent domains, including complex authentication/authorization frameworks (OIDC, RBAC) and security protocols
- experience applying data sovereignty and privacy principles (e.g., GDPR) to platform architectures
- history of establishing operational best practices and sharing knowledge across teams
- ability to thrive in cross-functional environments, partnering with Product and Engineering Operations
- ability to translate ambiguous business requirements into executable technical roadmaps
- ability to make build-vs-buy and prioritization decisions
- experience in a fast-evolving AI landscape
- deep expertise in building Internal Developer Portals or platform experiences
- expertise in translating complex SDLC workflows—such as CI/CD pipelines (GHA, CodeDeploy) and GitOps practices—into intuitive, self-service UI workflows
Desired Qualifications
- experience with Go
- experience with Python
- experience with PostgreSQL
- experience with MySQL
- experience with DynamoDB
- experience with OIDC
- experience with RBAC
- experience with GDPR
- experience with GHA
- experience with CodeDeploy
- experience with GitOps
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