Cloud Software Architect

At Tarana, you will help build a cutting-edge cloud product -- a management system for wireless networks, scaling to millions of devices -- using modern cloud-native architecture and open-source technologies. You will be responsible for designing and implementing distributed software in a microservices architecture. This could include everything from requirements gathering (working with Product Management and customers) to high-level design to implementation, integrations, operations, troubleshooting, performance tuning and scaling.

You will provide technical and engineering leadership to an R&D team that owns multiple microservices, end-to-end. There will be PoCs, customer pilots, and production releases, all in an agile engineering environment. Expect to be challenged and stretch your skills on a daily basis. Expect to meet or beat exacting standards of quality and performance. We will provide the right mentoring to make sure that you can succeed.

The job is based in Pune, and this job profile will require in-person presence in the office multiple days a week to interact with team members.

Job Responsibilities: 

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science or a closely-related field, from a reputed university. Masters' / Ph.D. preferred

• At least 15 years of experience in software development, including at least 5 years in large-scale distributed software

• Product architecture and design experience, including providing technical leadership to engineering teams

• Experience with building SaaS product offerings or IoT applications

• Experience with not just developing, but also operating and managing such systems would be a plus

Required Skills & Experience:

• Software design and development in Java and its associated ecosystem (e.g., Spring Boot, Hibernate, etc.)

• Microservices and RESTful APIs: design, implementation and consumption

• Strong understanding of distributed systems and associated concepts like clustering, asynchronous messaging, streaming, scalability & performance, data consistency, high availability

• Mastery of databases (relational, NoSQL, search engines), caching, and distributed persistence technologies. Experience with Elasticsearch will be a plus

• Experience with cloud-native platforms like Kubernetes, and service-mesh technologies like Istio

• Knowledge of network protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures, RPC mechanisms (e.g., gRPC)

• Secure coding practices, knowledge of network security, application security