Senior Staff Software Engineer- DX

Druva, the autonomous data security company, puts data security on autopilot with a 100% SaaS, fully managed platform to secure and recover data from all threats. The Druva Data Security Cloud ensures the availability, confidentiality, and fidelity of data - providing customers with autonomous protection, rapid incident response, and guaranteed data recovery. The company is trusted by its more than 6,000 customers, including 65 of the Fortune 500, to defend business data in today’s ever-connected world. Amidst a rapidly evolving security landscape, Druva offers a $10 million Data Resiliency Guarantee ensuring customer data is protected and secured against every cyber threat. Visit druva.com and follow us on LinkedIn, X and Facebook. 

Developer eXperience (DX) is a central charter within Druva responsible for providing Druva engineering an enhanced developer experience to empower them to build Druva's world class products. To provide such an experience, the DX team primarily endeavours to reducing the engineer’s cognitive load, improving the time taken to onboard new engineers into teams, reducing the challenges in deployment and being able to ensure engineers are able to maintain the flow state for a longer period of time. Druva believes in engineers having a great Developer eXperience (DX), and endeavours to provide the best of class DX in the industry. DX team is responsible for delivering best-in-class DX products for Druva's engineering teams using cutting edge technology stacks. 

We are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our Developer Experience (DevEx) team. In this role, you will be instrumental in enhancing the experience of developers within our company. You will be an integral part of the team that is involved in the development of tools, processes, and systems that improve the development workflow, from local development environments to continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, and enhance our product's overall usability.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience in software engineering, a passion for improving developer workflows, and a deep understanding of how to make development environments efficient, scalable, and enjoyable.

Key Responsibilities:

• Tooling & Infrastructure Development: Design and develop tools, libraries, and frameworks to improve developer workflows, including build systems, CI/CD pipelines, debugging tools, and deployment automation.
• Improve Developer Productivity: Identify pain points in the development lifecycle and implement solutions that enhance efficiency, code quality, and deployment speed.
• Collaboration with Teams: Work closely with product engineers, DevOps, and infrastructure teams to ensure smooth integration and optimization of developer-facing platforms.
• Platform Usability: Build tools and interfaces that enable engineers to efficiently interact with the core product. Work to ensure that the developer experience is frictionless and scalable.
• Documentation & Training: Write clear and comprehensive documentation to help developers understand and make the best use of the tools and systems you create. Provide training and support for internal teams.
• Advocate for Best Practices: Champion best practices in coding standards, testing, version control, and other areas of developer productivity. Ensure continuous feedback loops from engineering teams to improve practices and processes.
• Performance Monitoring & Optimization: Build and maintain monitoring systems to ensure the health of the developer tools and infrastructure, identifying opportunities for optimization and performance improvements.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 to 7 years of professional software development experience.
• Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Go, Java, or Node.js.
• Experience building and maintaining scalable developer tools, CI/CD pipelines, and/or cloud-based infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with developer tooling and frameworks such as GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, Terraform, and other modern DevOps tools.
• Expertise in enhancing developer workflows and optimizing toolchains to improve developer productivity.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work with complex systems and architectures.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with SaaS product development and architecture.
• Solid understanding of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with microservices, serverless architecture, and distributed systems.
• Knowledge of security best practices related to developer tools and CI/CD pipelines.
• Contribution to open-source projects, particularly those related to DevEx or cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).

Why You’ll Love Working Here:

• Impact: You will have the opportunity to shape the development experience for a growing and dynamic engineering organization.
• Innovation: Work on cutting-edge technologies and solve challenging problems in an agile, fast-paced environment.
• Culture: Join a diverse, supportive, and inclusive team that values collaboration and creativity.
• Growth: We provide opportunities for professional growth, learning, and leadership development.
• Flexibility: We offer flexible working hours and a hybrid environment to help you achieve work-life balance.