Join Vonage and help us innovate cloud communications for businesses worldwide
Why this role matters:
As a Staff Software Engineer specialising in Cloud Platform Engineering, you are a key technical leader for our India-based engineering team. You bridge the gap between high-level architectural vision and world-class execution through strong software craftsmanship. Working closely with Senior Management and the Global Architecture team, you will help shape Vonage's engineering culture. You will drive the design and implementation of our long-term technical roadmap for our Cloud-Native Kubernetes platform — writing the tools, automation, and systems that keep our global production APIs resilient, cost-efficient, and secure. Your mission is to eliminate systemic friction through code, ensuring a seamless developer experience for hundreds of engineers interacting with the cloud.
Your key responsibilities:
- Cooperative Technical Leadership Work in partnership with the architecture team to scope, size, and execute large-scale platform initiatives.
You serve as a primary technical authority and escalation point for the engineering team in India.
- Software-Driven Platform Engineering Write production-quality code in Go (preferred) or Python to build internal tooling, automation frameworks, integrated bots, and self-service developer platforms. You treat the platform as a product and its users — developers — as customers.
- Predictive Problem Solving Use deep systems knowledge to foresee architectural bottlenecks. Proactively design and implement software solutions for future scale, ensuring the platform stays ahead of business demands.
- Mentorship & Multiplier Act as a lead mentor for junior and senior engineers. Provide the guidance needed to raise the engineering bar, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and self-sufficiency.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Culture Drive the evolution of IaC practices using Terraform and Crossplane, moving the o