Senior Software Engineering, Backend

Overview

Senior backend engineer on the Data User Platform and Programs team, part of a founding engineering team in India, building data infrastructure, discovery, governance and AI systems used by thousands of internal data users.

What you'll do

• Improve the scalability, performance and reliability of data platform services through strong engineering practices.
• Build and operate data discovery and metadata platforms that help users quickly and confidently find datasets, dashboards and metrics.
• Develop AI-enabled services and workflows, including self-serve tooling for creating, evaluating and improving AI assistants.
• Add observability, monitoring and operational tooling to maintain platform SLAs and reduce incident response time.
• Drive cost-efficient data platform design by identifying underutilized, redundant or idle datasets, services and compute resources.
• Embed cost awareness into the data lifecycle: design systems that encourage reuse over duplication, instrument usage and cost signals, and support safe deprecation and cleanup of stale data assets.
• Partner with cross-functional teams in a fast-moving, product-driven environment.

What you'll need

• B.E./B.Tech., M.E./M.Tech, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 6+ years of experience with CS fundamental concepts.
• Experience with at least one of the programming languages Go, Java, and Python.
• Proficiency in using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) across the full software development lifecycle, including designing, generating code, testing, monitoring and releasing software.
• Prior technical experience in Big Data infrastructure and Cost Efficiency & Governance, having built meaningful pieces of data infrastructure.
• Experience improving efficiency, scalability and stability of data platforms.
• Experience building or operating backend systems in production environments.

Nice to have

• Experience with open-sourced big data technologies such as Spark, ClickHouse, Iceberg and Airflow.

Details

• Location: Pune, India.