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Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

Lightstorm Telecom Ventures
7 - 12 Years
Gurgaon/Gurugram

Posted on: 10/07/2026

Job Description

Job Description :

Role & responsibilities :

- Own end-to-end delivery of an area of the platform : design, build, test, deploy, operate.

- Design production-grade software in collaboration with the Engineering Manager & other seniors.

- Take critical technical decisions in your area & defend them with evidence.

- Lead code reviews, design reviews, & technical planning within your scope.

- Mentor mid-level & junior engineers on your team.

- Write clean, testable, well-documented code.

- Contribute to engineering standards & technical culture.

Preferred candidate profile :

Technical must-have :

- Eight or more years of hands-on software engineering experience, with a track record of delivering complex distributed systems end to end.

- Strong hands-on Python (FastAPI, asyncio, Pydantic) in production. Strong Java (JDK 21 or a recent LTS release).

- Deep experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL or equivalent) at scale : schema design, migrations, partitioning, query performance.

- Cloud-native experience in production : AWS, containers, Kubernetes, Helm.

- Event-driven architecture in production : Kafka (or equivalent), topic design, ordering, backpressure, schema evolution.

- API design across REST, OpenAPI, & gRPC. Versioning & backward compatibility for external consumers.

- Modern engineering practices : CI/CD, code review, test automation, contract testing.

- OpenTelemetry or equivalent for observability across services (traces, metrics, logs).

- Strong problem-solving skills & clear written & verbal communication.

Nice to have :

- Time-series data at scale (TimescaleDB, InfluxDB, ClickHouse, or equivalent).

- Graph databases (Neo4j or equivalent), Cypher, graph algorithms, & topology projection from a relational source of truth.

- Stream processing at scale (Flink or equivalent).

- Applied machine learning in production : PyTorch, sklearn, XGBoost, MLflow. Model serving, drift monitoring, feedback loops.

- LLM application engineering : agentic AI, prompt orchestration, tool calling, retrieval, evaluation. Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP).

- Vector databases for retrieval & agentic memory.

- Frontend adjacency : React 19 with TypeScript 5 for real-time dashboards.

- Prior experience in telecom, network operations, OSS, NMS, or infrastructure software.

- Network protocols & telemetry : IS-IS, BGP, gNMI, NETCONF, OpenConfig, OpenROADM.

Education :

- PG : Any Postgraduate

Key Skills :

- Software Development, Python, Data Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence

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