About Nexla Nexla is the leading Integration platform, built with AI, for AI. Nexla takes a metadata driven approach to converge diverse integrations across Data, Documents, Agents, Applications, and APIs into a single design pattern. We accelerate the development of solutions for GenAI, Analytics, and Inter-company data. Nexla makes data users and developers up to 10x more productive by delivering a true blend of no-code, low-code, and pro-code interfaces.
Leading companies including DoorDash, LinkedIn, Johnson & Johnson, and LiveRamp trust Nexla for mission-critical data. Named in the 2022, 2023, and 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Data Integration Tools and top-rated by customers on Gartner Peer Insights, Nexla is a remote-first company headquartered in San Mateo, California.
We put our customers at the heart of everything we do, foster a data-driven mindset, take ownership of our work, and believe in the power of teamwork to achieve ambitious goals.
Our product-market fit is evolving rapidly as AI reshapes the data integration landscape. We're building a recent generation of intelligent, context-aware connectors that changes how the industry thinks about data movement.
You will own entire systems end-to-end from design to deploy to on-call. Build & Ship (60%+ of your time)
Design and implement core connector framework features—schema evolution, intelligent pagination, rate limiting, circuit breaking—and ship them yourself.
Own the full lifecycle of the Connector SDK: build it, document it, dogfood it, iterate on it based on feedback from internal teams and partners.
Handle 'dirty' real-world data. your architecture decisions have immediate, measurable impact.




Evaluate and drive technology choices where to use Java/Kafka, where Rust or alternative runtimes make more sense, and how to reduce infrastructure costs without sacrificing reliability.
Work directly with Product and the CTO to translate customer needs and market shifts (GenAI data ingestion, real-time CDC, agentic workflows) into technical plans.
We don't separate building from knowledge sharing RFCs, runbooks, and SDK docs are part of the job, not an afterthought.

8-15+ years of software engineering , with significant time spent building platforms, frameworks, or SDKs—not just end-user applications.

- Expert-level Java/Kotlin/Scala. Deep experience with distributed systems in production: Bonus points for building something of your own.
- Comfort with the Modern Data Stack: Snowflake, Databricks, and the alphabet soup of protocols (gRPC, GraphQL, Webhooks, CDC).
- You're comfortable defining scope on the fly and shipping before the full picture is clear.
- Global Collaboration Window: Ability to overlap with morning PST (Pacific Standard Time) working hours for syncs, design reviews, and collaboration with our US-based leadership and engineering teams.

Contributions to open-source data projects (Airbyte, Flink, Debezium, Arrow).
Experience at an iPaaS or ELT company (MuleSoft, Fivetran, Informatica, Airbyte).
Deep Kubernetes / cloud-native experience . We run on K8s and are migrating to Strimzi for Kafka.
Your code processes billions of rows for companies like DoorDash and LinkedIn.
The AI wave is real for us. We're not bolting AI onto a legacy product. Intelligent connectors, context-aware data movement, and agentic workflows are the core of what we're building next.
Workplace type - Hybrid

📌 Staff Software Engineer - Hybrid/ Remote Working (Bengaluru)
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