About the Company : Our client is a global leader in cybersecurity and application delivery solutions. They specialize in DDoS protection, Web Application Firewall (WAF), bot management, and cloud security for enterprises.

Trusted by financial, healthcare, education, and e-commerce sectors, our client's AI-driven platforms ensure app availability and user experience under attack. Clients like Liberty Life and Internet2 use them to mitigate massive Web DDoS campaigns and reduce malicious traffic by 40%. With expert-led defense and 24/7 protection, they help organizations stay secure, compliant, and resilient against evolving cyber threats worldwide.

About the Role : We are looking for an experienced Expert / Staff-level Backend Engineer to act as a technical anchor within the team, driving the design, development, and scaling of our cloud saas solution.

This role is highly hands-on, requiring deep expertise in Go, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure, along with the ability to guide engineers, influence design decisions, and ensure high-quality execution. You will play a critical role in building reliable, high-performance systems, while mentoring team members and raising the overall engineering bar.

Responsibilities

- Design and build scalable microservices and distributed systems
- Own the end-to-end development of critical components
- Ensure systems adhere to resilience, fault tolerance, and high availability principles
- Write clean, maintainable, and resilient code that meets the highest quality standards
- Collaborate closely with fellow Software Engineers and Product Managers to build and develop features
- Contribute to improvements in System reliability,



clearing tech-debt etc.
- Act as a go-to person for complex technical problems
- Conduct design/code reviews and ensure engineering quality
- Guide the team on design decisions and best practices

Qualifications :

- 9+ years of professional software development experience.
- A proven track record of building and maintaining systems that serve thousands of concurrent users or process millions of events per hour.
- The ability to identify and resolve bottlenecks across the stack whether it’s an unoptimized DB query, a slow API response, or a saturated message queue.
- Observability Mindset: You don't just "deploy and pray." You are proficient in using monitoring, logging, and tracing to proactively manage system health before a customer reports an issue.

Required Skills :

- Expert level proficiency in Golang including concurrency, performance optimization etc.
- Solid proficiency in Java and Spring Boot
- Expertise in Microservices architecture and development
- Solid understanding of object-oriented programming and design patterns
- Strong experience with distributed systems and message queues such as Kafka
- Strong experience with both SQL and NoSQL datastores such as Postgres, ElasticSearch, Redis etc.
- Strong experience with containers and container orchestration platforms including Docker and Kubernetes
- Strong experience in AWS ecosystem

Preferred Skills :

- Familiarity with OLAP systems such as Clickhouse
- Exposure to frontend technologies
- AI Development: Early adopter of AI coding tools like Claude Code and Cursor to accelerate delivery and maintain code quality
- Cybersecurity Background: Previous experience in Cyber is a massive plus

📌 Expert / Staff-level Backend Engineer (Bengaluru)
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