We are looking for an engineer who loves building from the ground up - someone who enjoys turning ideas into working systems, cares deeply about quality, thrives in a quick-moving, cooperative environment. You'll join as an early team member and help shape both the product and culture from day one.

Responsibilities:
Own problems end-to-end from design to deployment with a strong bias toward quality, automation, and continuous improvement.
Introduce new techniques, architecture, and best practices to improve scalability, efficiency, and reliability.
Build tooling and observability to monitor system health, identify bottlenecks, and proactively resolve instability.
Balance rapid iteration on early-stage systems with long-term maintainability and architectural soundness.
Contribute to a culture of engineering excellence, mentorship, and team-first collaboration.

Skills:
4+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on backend / distributed systems.
Experience building and operating production-grade systems at scale in cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).




Experience with large-scale distributed systems ideally written in Python, Go or Rust; Experience with micro service design using API gateways, event streaming (Kafka / Kinesis) and container orchestration (Kubernetes / Docker).
Experience with DevOps workflows and CI/CD pipelines (familiarity with CloudBees / Harness is a plus).
Solid debugging, instrumentation, and observability skills across distributed systems.
Proven ability to take ownership of complex problems and learn quickly.
Experience with AI-assisted development tools such coding assistants etc.

Bonus Experience:
Building agentic AI applications leveraging LLM frameworks, MCP servers; AI engineering experience
Startup experience especially as a founder or early engineer who has built a product from scratch is a strong plus.

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📌 Sr Software Engineer Backend Bengaluru
🏢 Proofpoint
📍 Bengaluru