Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer (Backend) (India)

Job Location : Hyderabad

Introduction to Demandbase :

Demandbase is the Smarter GTM™ company for B2B brands. We help B2B companies hit their revenue goals using fewer resources. How? By aligning their sales and marketing teams around a combination of their data, our data, and artificial intelligence — what we call Account Intelligence — so they can identify, engage, and focus their time and money on the accounts most likely to buy.

As a company, we’re as committed to growing careers as we are to building world-class technology. We invest heavily in people, our culture, and the community around us. We have offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and India, as well as a team in the UK. We have also been continuously recognized as one of the best places to work including, “Best Workplaces for Millennials” and “Best Workplaces for Parents”!

We're committed to attracting, developing, retaining, and promoting a diverse workforce. By ensuring that every Demandbase employee is able to bring a diversity of talents to work, we're increasingly capable of living out our mission to transform how B2B goes to market. We encourage people from historically underrepresented backgrounds and all walks of life to apply. Come grow with us at Demandbase!

About the Role :

We are seeking a talented and experienced Platform Engineer to join our dynamic team. As a Platform Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and maintaining our cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines. You will work closely with development teams to streamline the software delivery process, optimize performance, and ensure the reliability and scalability of our applications.

What you'll be doing :

Design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters to orchestrate containerized applications.

Design, deploy, and manage Backstage Scaffolders to alleviate toil from internal engineering teams.

Develop and maintain CI / CD pipelines to automate software build, test, and deployment processes.

Utilize Terraform for infrastructure as code to provision and manage AWS resources.

Implement and manage Airflow workflows for data pipeline orchestration and scheduling.

Configure and maintain Istio service mesh for microservices communication, traffic management, and security.

Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance, scalability, and reliability.

Monitor and troubleshoot production systems, ensuring high availability and performance.

Implement security best practices and compliance standards across the infrastructure.

Provide support and guidance to development teams on infrastructure-related issues and best practices.

Document infrastructure configurations, processes, and procedures.

Empowering development teams to clear operational hurdles by setting best practices, creating reusable templates and modules, and writing clear documentation in a quickly evolving “shift left” culture.

About You :

You are a strong analytical and problem solving skills

You are self-motivated learner

You are eager to learn new technologies

You are receptive to constructive feedback

You are confident and articulate with excellent written and verbal communication skills

You are thrive in an environment that’s fast paced and focused on “shifting left”

Skills & Education :

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Mathematics, Statistics from a top engineering institution.

12+ years of experience in a similar role, with a strong focus on cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices.

Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including cluster setup, configuration, and management.

Proficiency in building and maintaining CI / CD pipelines using tools such as GitLab CI / CD, or similar.

Familiarity with templating using IDPs such as Backstage

Solid understanding of infrastructure as code principles and experience with Terraform.

Experience with AWS services, including EKS, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, etc.

Hands-on experience with GCP services, including GKE, BigQuery, IAM, Networking etc.

Familiarity with Airflow for workflow orchestration and scheduling.

Knowledge of Istio or similar service mesh technologies for microservices architecture.

Strong scripting skills in languages such as Bash, Python, or similar.

Experience with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog etc.

Experience utilizing CNCF tools such as Flux, Argo Rollouts, and External Secrets

Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a strong product mindset.

Nice to have experience in designing / implementing ETL data pipelines using open source platforms.

Nice to have experience with other cloud providers such as Azure.