Job Description

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- Job Title: Software Engineering Specialist
- Req ID: 58135
- Job Function: Software Engineering
- Posting Start Date: 02/06/2026
- Posting End Date: 09/06/2026
- Division: Networks
- Job Location: IND-Bengaluru-Pritech
- Advertised Salary: Competitive

Recruiter: Nishita Jena

Hiring Manager: Hari Annamalai

Career Grade: D

About the role : The Software Engineering Specialist independently executes advanced activities to deliver the engineering strategy and roadmap that supports BT's commercial strategy through cross functional business partnering and the participation of a team that pursues innovation as well as engineering excellence.

What you’ll be doing : Architecture Ownership & Vision

- Own the overall system architecture of the observability platform across ingestion, processing, storage, and query layers.
- Work closely with Enterprise Architect to align system architecture with long-term architectural vision and technical roadmap aligned with business and platform goals.
- Design and review high-level system designs, data flows, integration patterns, and core technology choices.
- Act as the technical authority for complex architectural decisions, trade-offs, and design reviews. Platform & Domain Leadership
- Architect systems for infrastructure monitoring, metrics, logs, and distributed tracing at scale.
- Guide the evolution from infrastructure monitoring to a full observability platform including APM.
- Define architectural patterns for high-throughput telemetry ingestion, real-time processing, and query-at-scale.
- Ensure architectural consistency for multi-tenant, cloud-native distributed platforms. Standards, Governance & Enablement
- Establish and evolve architecture standards, design principles, and best practices across teams.




- Identify architectural risks and proactively drive mitigation strategies.
- Enable teams through reference architectures, design frameworks, and technical guidance.
- Support modernization initiatives including scalability, performance optimization, resilience, and cost efficiency. Hands-On Architectural Validation
- Perform code reviews of critical and performance-sensitive components.
- Build and guide proof-of-concepts (POCs) to validate architectural decisions and de-risk recent technologies.
- Develop reference implementations to demonstrate architectural intent.
- Collaborate closely with senior engineers to troubleshoot complex system-level issues

Delivery Collaboration & Execution Enablement

- Work closely with Software Engineering Managers to align architectural decisions with delivery and release plans.
- Assist in breaking down large architectural initiatives into phased, incremental deliverables.
- Identify architectural and technical risks early and proactively surface them to influence release planning.
- Support release readiness by validating that architecture, scalability, and non‑functional requirements are addressed ahead of key milestones.

The skills you’ll need :

- Experience designing microservice based, event driven architectures

- Ability to make architectural trade offs involving scalability, reliability, performance, and cost

- Proven experience designing large scale, cloud based distributed platforms





- Strong backend experience with Java (Spring Boot-based microservices)

- Working knowledge of Python and/or Go for scripting, automation, and collectors

- Ability to review and reason about performance critical backend code

- Strong understanding of infrastructure monitoring and observability concepts with hands on experience on follow:

- Metrics, logs, and distributed tracing o Agent based and agentless monitoring models o Push / pull / subscription based data collection

- Hands on or deep working knowledge of:

- Metric data models and storage (e.g., VictoriaMetrics or equivalent) o Log aggregation and search platforms (Elasticsearch / OpenSearch)

- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, exporters, and custom collectors

- Understanding of common monitoring tools and protocols (e.g., SNMP, Prometheus style systems)

- Strong experience with:

- Time series databases for metrics o Relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL) for metadata and control plane services o NoSQL / in memory stores (e.g., Redis) for high volume or low latency workloads

- Working knowledge of search and analytics engines for logs and traces

- Understanding of data modeling, query patterns, and data lifecycle management

- Experience with Kafka class distributed messaging systems

- Designing and operating event driven telemetry ingestion pipelines

- Understanding of throughput, backpressure, and reliability concerns in streaming systems

- Solid hands on exposure to Docker and Kubernetes based platforms

- Infrastructure automation using:

- Terraform (IaC) o Ansible (deployment and configuration automation)

- CI/CD pipeline understanding and usage (e.g., GitLab CI or equivalent)

- Familiarity with Grafana, Kibana, or similar visualizat

📌 Software Engineering Specialist (Bengaluru)
🏢 BT
📍 Bengaluru