Role Description The Senior Software Architect with 8+ years of experience at Redacto is a full time, in office role based in Bengaluru. This position is responsible for defining and evolving the overall software architecture of Redacto’s data privacy platform, ensuring scalability, security, and performance.

This is a onsite job (No remote)

What you'll do
• Own the entire platform architecture across the Consent, Discover, Vendor, Privacy Governance, and Breach Management modules — from high-level system design to critical component decisions.
• Drive R&D;: research, prototype, and productionize emerging capabilities — AI/LLM-driven classification, privacy-enhancing technologies, and next-gen data discovery.
• Design for hybrid and split-plane deployments — SaaS control plane with Kubernetes-based data planes running inside customer data centers and clouds.
• Define architecture standards, design-review processes, and ADRs; ensure consistency, security, and quality across engineering teams.
• Partner with product and founders on feasibility, technical trade-offs,



and the long-term platform roadmap.
• Ensure scalability, multi-tenancy, performance, and reliability as the platform grows across large regulated enterprises.
• Translate DPDPA and regulatory requirements into concrete architectural patterns — data residency, isolation, auditability, and privacy by design.
• Mentor tech leads and senior engineers; raise the technical bar without owning people management.

Skills
• Architecture: Distributed systems, microservices, event-driven design, API-first design; multi-tenancy, data partitioning, and isolation models; HLDs, LLDs, C4 views, ADRs.
• Systems & Data: Deep backend expertise (Python, Go, Java, or similar); SQL/NoSQL at scale; streaming and messaging (Kafka or equivalent); data pipelines, CDC, and large-scale scanning/classification workloads.
• AI & R&D;: Practical experience applying ML/LLMs to product problems — classification, entity recognition, retrieva

📌 Senior Software Architect Bengaluru
🏢 Redacto
📍 Bengaluru