Software Engineer III
BangaloreFull-TimeMid-levelSoftware Engineering
Core Responsibilities
- Maintain and evolve the APIs that provide self-service platform capabilities to the wider engineering organization.
- Designing and maintain scalable, resilience and secure applications that enable the Hosting team to reduce operational overhead.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, automation, and engineering excellence
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams and Product Management to align platform capabilities with business objectives
- Ensure best practices in security, reliability, observability, and performance across the platform estate
- Contribute to strategic planning and help shape the technical roadmap for the Hosting function
- Advocate for and embed platform engineering principles, including self-service, standardization, and automation
- Contribute to both Application Development and Platform engineering disciplines.
Skills & Experience
- We’re looking for an experienced Application Engineer with a strong background in API driven development and a passion for building and operating production systems. The ideal candidate will have:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of hands-on industry experience building and operating production software
- Strong experience developing API-driven applications using Java and Spring Boot
- Deep understanding of REST principles and experience designing resilient, secure, and scalable REST APIs
- Strong grounding in software engineering best practices, including automated testing, CI driven deployment workflows, and clean code principles
- Experience working in a “you build it, you run it” environment, with ownership of services from design through to production support
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes and its ecosystem (e.g. Helm, Kustomize, Karpenter), with a strong desire to deepen expertise
- Experience with at least one major cloud platform (ideally AWS) - familiarity with EKS considered a significant bonus
- Experience using Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform) to provision or support application environments
- Practical understanding of observability (metrics, logging, tracing) to monitor services in production environments. Ideally with experience in Grafana/Prometheus.
- Sound security awareness, with experience embedding security best practices into development and deployment workflows
- Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
Desirable Skills & Experience
- Don't worry if these don't fit into your skillset, they're just bonus points:
- Experience working within Platform Engineering teams is a bonus
- Experience building APIs for internal engineering teams
- Experience working in regulated environments and building compliant workloads is a plus.
