Staff Software Engineer
RemoteHyderabad, Telangana, India or India
Job Summary
Lead the design and delivery of reliable, secure, and well-monitored AI systems that automate workflows and create measurable business value. Define technical roadmaps, system designs, and trade-offs aligned with product strategy while designing, building, and maintaining scalable backend systems, APIs, and cloud infrastructure. Contribute hands-on to production code, reviews, testing strategy, performance tuning, and incident learnings to champion engineering excellence across CI/CD, automation, and security practices. Mentor engineers to raise technical standards and support hiring for senior talent while collaborating across US and India teams to resolve trade-offs constructively.
Required Qualifications
- 12+ years of professional software engineering experience
- experience as a senior technical leader or Staff-level individual contributor
- Strong hands-on experience designing and building agentic solutions, agent workflows, automation systems, or AI-powered platform capabilities
- Deep expertise in system design, software architecture, reliability, observability, performance tuning, production operations, and cloud-native deployment
- Strong programming experience in Java, Scala, Python, or similar backend technologies
- Experience with databases, messaging systems, caching layers, and data platforms such as PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Redis, Aerospike, Kafka, Pulsar, or similar technologies
- Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives across multiple teams, services, or product areas
- Strong product and business judgment, with the ability to connect technical decisions to customer value, OKRs, and measurable outcomes
- Experience using AI-assisted engineering practices responsibly across the SDLC and evaluating outputs for correctness, security, reliability, and production readiness
- Excellent communication, influencing, and mentorship skills
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