Staff Backend Engineer, India
Core
Provide technical leadership for large, cross-cutting backend initiatives, driving modular architecture strategy and modernizing legacy monoliths at scale.
Role type
Staff Backend Engineer (Technical Leadership)
Builds
Modular backend services, data systems, and platform infrastructure for a DevSecOps orchestration platform used by millions.
Domain
SaaS / Cloud-Native Backend Engineering
Required skills
Cross-team technical leadership, deep backend architecture, modularization in production, influence without authority, product judgment, mentorship, agentic AI leadership
Preferred skills
Go services and APIs at scale, Kubernetes and cloud-native operations, Rust adoption, Ruby/Rails modularization, PostgreSQL scaling, security-sensitive software supply chain engineering
Technologies
Go, Kubernetes, Rust, Ruby/Rails, PostgreSQL
Responsibilities
Lead technical design and delivery of large backend initiatives spanning multiple teams; Drive modular backend and platform architecture strategy; Define standards for APIs, contracts, security, and observability; Create shared patterns for dependency management and service maturity; Own production systems including on-call and incident response; Mentor engineers and raise team technical capability; Lead team-level adoption of AI-assisted and agentic workflows
Seniority
Staff, high-level technical leadership across multiple teams
