Senior Staff Software Engineer (DataLake)

About Druva

You won’t just join a company at Druva, you’ll help shape the future of data
security at the moment it matters most. We are building a modern standard with
our cloud-native solutions, designed to simplify the toughest challenges in
cyber resilience for our customers. As the pioneer and market leader in fully
managed SaaS data protection, we help organizations secure and recover their
data from ransomware, cyberattacks, and operational disruptions without the
complexity, cost, or risk of legacy infrastructure.

Our momentum is backed by the market: Druva was named a Leader in the 2025
Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Backup and Data Protection Platforms, a Leader in
the 2025 IDC MarketScape for Cyber-Recovery, and a Leader & Outperformer in the
2025 GigaOm Cloud Data Protection Radar. Even better, customers validate that
leadership every day through strong Gartner Peer Insights ratings, standout Net
Promoter Scores (NPS), and top willingness-to-recommend results.

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The Foundation team at Druva is responsible for designing a highly performant
and scalable cloud file system on the Druva cloud in AWS.  To build this
petabyte-scale, distributed, services-oriented cloud file system various key
concepts like file system metadata, versioning, eventual consistency are used
along with leveraging various AWS services like S3, DDB, Kinesis. While the core
file storage engine provides the backup storage for all the Druva products,
allied components like indexing engine, key-value store, and big data pipeline
provide scalable search, analytics, and compliance services. The team diligently
keeps track of newer services, storage tiers, and various aspects of existing
AWS services to take advantage of the continuous evolution of services and use
them effectively in the background.

As a Sr. Software  Engineer, you will be providing technical leadership to
create high-quality software by owning low level , design and implementation of
services within a product. This role will require excellent communication skills
as you will collaborate with Product Management to refine requirements, product
architects to propose design changes, and other product owners to drive features
to completion with good quality. 

Key Skill

* 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'
* 5-7  years of experience, preferably in a product company,  building global
scale distributed SaaS applications that handle petabytes of data.
* Hands-on experience in the design and development of complex products
* Extensive hands-on experience in Go/Python/C/C++/Java on Unix/Linux
platforms.

A strong understanding of complex concepts related to computer architecture,
data structures, algorithms, design concepts, and programming practices.

* Data modelling for OLAP workloads, Scalability design and query optimisations
* Understanding of data consistency at cloud scale, eventual consistency models
* Hands on experience with Big data tools and frameworks (Datalake / Lakehouse,
ETL) preferably in public cloud ecosystems like AWS and modules like  Apache
Spark, AWS Glue, Iceberg.

 Desirable Skills:

* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Working knowledge of Dockers and Kubernetes will be an advantage

Role and Responsibilities:

* The Sr. Software  Engineer's role is to be the technical leader in building
enterprise-grade scalable, performant systems which deliver the required
functionality to the customers and delight them
* Should be able to design and implement sufficiently large and complex
features and/or architectural improvements to the product.
* Suggest and propose solutions to complex design problems.
* Identify areas of engineering improvements to the product and work with
product architects and the team to address them.
* Should be able to technically guide junior engineers with feature design and
implementation.
* Review design and implementation done by junior engineers.
* Should be able to independently handle complex escalations and guide others
as required.
* Be able to write technical blogs and make technical presentations in internal
and external forums

Qualification

1. Tech [http://b.tech/] / B.E / M.E./ M.Tech (Computer Science) or equivalent