Specialist - IT - Engineering
Role Overview
We're looking for a Backend Engineer who has built and run production systems at scale. You'll own services end-to-end: design, build, deploy, monitor and be able to address prod issues on priority. We also want someone who treats AI-assisted development as a core part of the modern engineering, and who has a track record of stepping up as a technical leader.
What Is Expected:
Design, build, and operate distributed microservices running on Kubernetes in AWS
Own services through their full lifecycle: architecture, coding, testing, deployment, on-call, and iteration based on production feedback
Design and evolve event-driven pipelines using Kafka (or similar streaming systems)
Work across the AWS stack (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda, ECS/EKS, CloudWatch, etc.) and make informed trade-offs on cost, scalability, and reliability
Use AI coding assistants and internal AI tooling to accelerate development, review, and debugging - and help the team adopt them effectively
Identify opportunities to apply AI/ML capabilities (e.g., LLM-based features, intelligent automation, agentic workflows) where they solve real product or engineering problems
Drive technical decisions on your team: propose designs, run design reviews, and push back constructively when needed
Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, pairing, and design discussions
Take ownership of incidents - from detection through root-cause analysis and postmortems - and drive follow-through on action items
Partner with product, SRE/DevOps, and other engineering teams to plan and deliver roadmap work
Demonstrated ownership: Has driven a project or service from design through production and long-term maintenance
Has taken point on a production incident - led triage, communicated status, and driven the postmortem/fix
Key Skills for This Role
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About the Role
We're looking for a Backend Engineer who has built and run production systems at scale. You'll own services end-to-end: design, build, deploy, monitor and be able to address prod issues on priority. We also want someone who treats AI-assisted development as a core part of the modern engineering, and who has a track record of stepping up as a technical leader.
What Is Expected:
Design, build, and operate distributed microservices running on Kubernetes in AWS
Own services through their full lifecycle: architecture, coding, testing, deployment, on-call, and iteration based on production feedback
Design and evolve event-driven pipelines using Kafka (or similar streaming systems)
Work across the AWS stack (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda, ECS/EKS, CloudWatch, etc.) and make informed trade-offs on cost, scalability, and reliability
Use AI coding assistants and internal AI tooling to accelerate development, review, and debugging - and help the team adopt them effectively
Identify opportunities to apply AI/ML capabilities (e.g., LLM-based features, intelligent automation, agentic workflows) where they solve real product or engineering problems
Drive technical decisions on your team: propose designs, run design reviews, and push back constructively when needed
Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, pairing, and design discussions
Take ownership of incidents - from detection through root-cause analysis and postmortems - and drive follow-through on action items
Partner with product, SRE/DevOps, and other engineering teams to plan and deliver roadmap work
Demonstrated ownership: Has driven a project or service from design through production and long-term maintenance
Has taken point on a production incident - led triage, communicated status, and driven the postmortem/fix
Required Qualifications
- Core Engineering
- 5+ years of professional backend software engineering experience
- Strong experience designing and operating microservices architectures in production
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (deployments, services, config/secrets management, autoscaling, load balancing, debugging pods/nodes in production)
- Proficiency with Apache Kafka or equivalent (event streaming, partitioning, consumer groups, schema management)
- Strong working knowledge of AWS - RDS, EC2, S3, IAM, VPC/networking basics, and at least one compute/orchestration service (ECS, EKS, or Lambda)
- Solid understanding of relational databases (schema design, indexing, query optimization, migrations) — RDS/Postgres or MySQL preferred
- Proficiency in at least one backend language commonly used (e.g., Java, Go, Python, Node.js)
- Understanding of API design (REST and/or gRPC), authentication/authorization patterns, and API versioning
- Practical experience with observability — structured logging, metrics, and distributed tracing (e.g., CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog, Open Telemetry)
- Comfort with asynchronous, event-driven, and eventually-consistent system design
- Basic understanding of CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
- Security fundamentals: secrets management, least-privilege IAM, dependency/vulnerability scanning and remediation
- AI Fluency
- Regular hands-on use of AI coding assistants (e.g., Kiro, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor) in real development workflows
- Working understanding of core AI/LLM concepts: prompting, embeddings, RAG, tool use/function calling, and agentic workflows — enough to evaluate where they add value and where they don't
- Judgment about AI tool limitations and knows when to trust AI-generated code vs. when to verify manually, especially around security, correctness, and data handling
Nice to Have
- Experience in migrating workloads to Cloud, DB migrations etc
- Experience with service mesh (Istio/Gloo), API gateways, or multi-region/multi-AZ architectures
- Exposure to cost optimization / FinOps practices in AWS
- Experience with NoSQL stores (DynamoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch) alongside RDS
- Experience building or integrating with LLM-based features in production
- Bangalore
- Karnātaka
- India
- Solid understanding of relational databases (schema design, indexing, query optimization, migrations) — RDS/Postgres or MySQL preferred
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