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Profile Principal Engineer (Escalations)Druva delivers Data Protection and Management for the cloud era. Druva Cloud Platform is built on AWS and offered as-a-Service; customers drive down costs by up to 50 percent by freeing themselves from the burden of unnecessary hardware, capacity planning, and software management. Druva is trusted worldwide by over 4,000 companies at the forefront of embracing the cloud. Druva is a privately held company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and is funded by Sequoia Capital, Viking Global Investors, Tenaya Capital, Riverwood Capital, and Nexus Partners.Please do visit us at:https://www.linkedin.com/company/druva/mycompany/https://www.druva.com/about/https://www.druva.com/blog/As a Principal Engineer, you will be responsible for fixing product bugs and delivering code changes to the Production part of product reliability, resiliency, stability & sustenance for all Druva SaaS Customers.This role will require excellent communication skills as you will collaborate with Leadership, Product Management, CloudOps, Development & Customer-Facing Teams to refine requirements, product architects to propose architectural changes, and other product owners to drive features for useability/supportability/quality.Key Skills:
• 10-15 Years of Experience with a consistent track record in development projects involving product development as an individual contributor and Tech lead. Experience in motivating, developing/coaching, and appraising the team assigned to the project.
• Extensive hands-on experience in Go/Python/C/C++/Java on Unix/Linux or Windows platform
• Excellent programming skills along with Data structures, Algorithms, and Design Concepts
• Experience in leading the development of complex, scale-out, distributed systems based on Service Oriented Architecture/Microservices (preferred).
• Strong problem-solving skills and demonstrated ability to articulate and present technical solutions.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to develop and maintain working relationships at all levels, both with customers and internal stakeholders.
• Experience in enterprise software, deep knowledge of software development including threading, network, and disk IO, data transformations, data integrity, systems management, systems administration, and monitoring.
• Customer-focused, with strong teamwork skills and a flexible self-motivated approach.
Desirable Skills:
• Exposure to specific technologies around Office 365/VMWare/HyperV/Nutanix/Oracle/MSSQL
• 10+ years of software development experience in C/C++/ Python/Golang
• Experience in working with SoA (Service oriented Architecture)
• Experience in Cloud Technologies (preferably AWS)
• A strong understanding of complex concepts related to computer architecture, data structures, and programming practices.
• Insights into the development of client-server, scale-out distributed applications with good breadth across networking, storage, microservices, and other web technologies. Insights into bigdata technologies are a definite plus.
• Strong technical leader with excellent communication skills who can collaborate with cross-functionaltechnical teams to meet the solution architecture needs of the product.
• Knowledge of the Backup or Storage domain will be an advantage.
Role and Responsibilities:
• Suggest and propose solutions to complex design problems for respective technology/workload.
• Do code reviews, fix product bugs, and deliver code changes to Production.
• Work closely with the Sales/Tech Support/Customer Success/Professional Services team assisting them on their POCs and Implementation Projects.
• Own and drive the Cloud Production issues for investigation and RCA, delivering a solution and working with the extended development teams.
• Drive validation of future releases in a staging environment for customer use cases, a gatekeeper for product release, and quality assurance.
• Partner with respective scrum teams and Product Management for feature design & product improvements.
• Ensure communication flows well cross-functionally for product updates and known issues.
Qualification
1. B.Tech/B.E/M.E/M.Tech (IT or Computer Science) or equivalent
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Keyskills :
javalinuxjavascriptframeworkuse casesclient serverdata integritydata structuresproduct managementsystems managemententerprise softwaredistributed systems