Role Summary

As a Staff Engineer, you provide strong technical leadership and hands-on ownership of core backend services and pipelines. You will anchor one primary domain (NELD or Ingestion) and influence cross-team architecture and execution.

You are expected to:

- Own key service architectures
- Design scalable ingestion and compliance workflows
- Ensure data quality, correctness, and reliability
- Mentor engineers and drive high engineering standards

Key Responsibilities

Architecture Technical Ownership

- Own architecture, design, and evolution of platform services within NELD and/or Ingestion.
- Drive system design for large cross-service features from ingestion to downstream consumers.
- Define and maintain clean service boundaries, APIs, and data contracts.

Platform Systems Development

- Design scalable, high-throughput ingestion pipelines for logs, telematics, and event data.
- Build and optimize streaming and batch data workflows.
- Translate HOS/ELD regulatory requirements into robust system behavior and guardrails.
- Ensure correctness, ordering, idempotency, and fault tolerance across workflows.

Reliability Observability

- Define and uphold SLOs for latency, availability, and data accuracy.
- Champion best practices in logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting.
- Design for backpressure handling, graceful degradation, and system recovery.

Data Modeling Storage

- Design data models and partitioning strategies for hot and cold data.
- Select appropriate storage technologies (SQL, NoSQL, time-series, object storage)



balancing scale, performance, and cost.

Cross-Team Collaboration

- Work closely with Product, Data, Compliance, and Engineering teams to deliver domain initiatives.
- Lead design reviews, contribute to RFCs, and support cross-team architecture discussions.

Mentorship Engineering Quality

- Mentor engineers on system design, distributed systems, and platform thinking.
- Improve code quality, documentation, and operational best practices.

Mandatory Skills

- Solid CS fundamentals (DSA system design).
- Deep hands-on backend experience with Java, Spring Boot.
- Strong grounding in distributed systems concepts: consistency, durability, retries, idempotency, backpressure, partitioning, resilience.
- Practical experience with Kafka / Kinesis / Pulsar or similar.
- Experience operating production systems (on-call, incidents, postmortems).
- Excellent communication and technical leadership ability.

Preferred Skills

- Experience building high-throughput ingestion or streaming systems.
- Exposure to compliance-heavy or audit-driven domains (transportation, fintech, healthcare).
- Experience with edge or intermittently connected devices.
- Hands-on work with observability stacks.
- Prior experience in ELD / HOS / telematics is a plus.

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📌 Staff Engineer - Backend (Bengaluru)
🏢 Netradyne
📍 Bengaluru