Staff Engineer – Backend Engineering
Staff Backend Engineer on Aviatrix's SaaS Platform team in Bengaluru, designing and shipping distributed microservices and cloud-native infrastructure on AWS (Aurora, Kafka/MSK, ClickHouse) for the company's multi-cloud security platform. The role owns architecture and design docs, mentors junior engineers, and drives reliability, performance, and security best practices.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (APAC)
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Category
- Backend
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 7+ years software engineering experience, with some mentoring experience
- BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- Experience on a SaaS/PaaS product with high-availability, multi-tenancy exposure; comfortable with ambiguity
- Solid grasp of distributed systems (consistency, fault tolerance, service discovery, circuit breaking, back-pressure)
- Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, OS, and systems programming
- API design/versioning experience (REST and gRPC), backward compatibility
- Experience with multi-tenancy and high-availability design patterns
- Familiarity with AWS-managed services (Aurora, MSK/Kafka, ClickHouse)
- Experience deploying/operating production services, release management, and operational readiness
- Understanding of observability, alerting, diagnostics, and runbooks; incident response and RCA experience
- Experience with AWS as primary cloud platform
- Familiarity with Kubernetes (EKS)
- Familiarity with IaC (Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation)
- CI/CD for cloud-native services
- Strong written/verbal communication; effective in collaborative, distributed teams; skilled at mentoring and building consensus
Nice to have
- Strong Golang
- Production-grade gRPC microservices experience
- Event-driven systems (SQS, SNS)
- Monitoring/logging/tracing or platform-management tooling experience
- Additional AWS services (RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift, OpenSearch, Lambda)
- Multi-cloud (Azure, GCP) exposure
- Network security, cloud networking, or SASE/SD-WAN background
- Open-source contributions or technical writing
Full description
Who We Are:
Aviatrix® is pioneering the Cloud Native Security Fabric — the architecture the Containment Era requires. The Cloud Native Security Fabric governs every workload communication path across every cloud, every VPC, every Kubernetes cluster, and every serverless function, from a single policy plane. One rule. Universal propagation. Enforced at the workload, not at a chokepoint. Trusted by more than 500 of the world's leading enterprises. For more information, visit .
About the Role - Staff Engineer – Backend Engineering
Aviatrix Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) delivers the intelligence, network, and security services of Aviatrix's multi-cloud platform as a managed offering, built on modern microservices architecture. We're seeking a Staff Engineer for our SaaS Platform team to bring technical depth to backend engineering, contribute to distributed microservices and cloud-native infrastructure design on AWS, mentor junior engineers, and raise the bar on reliability, performance, and security.
ResponsibilitiesArchitecture & Technical Contribution
- Own design and delivery of backend platform features, breaking down complex projects into scoped tasks
- Contribute to architecture discussions on scalability, fault tolerance, multi-tenancy, and operational simplicity
- Collaborate on core platform services using AWS-managed services (Aurora, MSK/Kafka, ClickHouse)
- Evaluate trade-offs on technology choices, system boundaries, and API contracts; write clear design docs
Backend Engineering Excellence
- Design high-performance microservices using gRPC, REST, and event-driven patterns (Golang preferred)
- Reinforce best practices for observability, resiliency, and SLO-driven operations
- Contribute to supportability (runbooks, diagnostics) and apply security best practices across service boundaries
- Participate in design reviews, capacity planning, and incident retrospectives
Mentorship & Collaboration
- Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and 1-on-1s
- Collaborate with Product Management; participate in on-call and incident RCA; support recruiting as needed
RequirementsExperience & Education
- 7+ years software engineering experience, with some mentoring experience
- BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- Experience on a SaaS/PaaS product with high-availability, multi-tenancy exposure; comfortable with ambiguity
Backend & Microservices
- Strong Golang preferred; production-grade gRPC microservices experience a plus