We’re 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 fast-moving, collaborative 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 Golang.
- Experience with micro service design using API gateways, and container orchestration (Kubernetes / Docker)
- Experience with DevOps workflows and CI/CD pipelines
- Robust 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.

📌 Sr Backend Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Proofpoint
📍 Hyderabad