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Staff Software Engineer - System Design

DISCO
10 - 12 Years
Gurgaon/Gurugram

Posted on: 19/03/2026

Job Description

Your Impact :

You will be a key contributor and responsible for both hands-on technical work to improve existing systems as well as guiding long-term evolutions in this space.

Youll be successful by ensuring that the product and its backend systems meet current and future functional and scaling demands.

Through your contributions towards both implementation and system design, you will play a pivotal role in maintaining and evolving our software systems to meet the growing demands of our business, ensuring high availability and high performance.

What You'll Do :

- Engage actively in coding, code reviews, and technical discussions, ensuring high-quality output.

- Lead the design, development, and maintenance of scalable, high-performance, easily modifiable distributed systems.

- Continuously enhance system performance, focusing on meeting customer needs using the best practices for designing scalable distributed systems.

- Share knowledge and mentor junior engineers, promoting a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.

- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.

Who You Are :

- 10+ years of relevant experience in backend engineering, with a focus on building large scale, highly responsive, fault tolerant services in SaaS and cloud-based applications.

- Strong experience with building highly reliable, highly responsive services backed by relational and non-relational data stores.

- Demonstrated expertise in designing, implementing, and maintaining (through operational observability) highly available, high-performance, distributed systems.

- Proven ability to deliver well-crafted, tested, and maintainable code solutions to complex technical challenges.

- Experience with multiple software stacks, have opinions and preferences, but are not tightly coupled to a specific stack.

- Youve delivered cloud native software solutions (including designing, implementing, and operational excellence).

- Experience in implementing RESTful APIs for outward-facing services and using gRPC for efficient internal service-to-service communication.

Even Better If You Have :

- Experience with designing, modifying, and operating multi-tenant systems.

- Familiarity with designing and developing from a security perspective with security best practices in system design and development.

- Demonstrated proficiency in multiple programming languages, including but not limited to Python and Kotlin/Java.

- Strategic level interaction with UI Developers.

Some Of Our Technology Stack :

- Cloud Provider : AWS

- Persistence : Sql Datastore, Elasticsearch, and others

- Container Orchestration : ECS, Kubernetes

- Transport : gRPC, GraphQL

- Persistence : Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, PostgresQL, Redis

- Event Bus : Kafka

- Languages / Frameworks : Kotlin / Netflix DGS, Python / Flask, .NET

- IaC : Terraform

Perks of DISCO :

- Open, inclusive, and fun environment

- Benefits, including medical and dental insurance

- Competitive salary plus discretionary bonus

- Opportunity to be a part of a startup that is revolutionizing the legal industry

- Growth opportunities throughout the company

About DISCO :

DISCO provides a cloud-native, artificial intelligence-powered legal solution that simplifies ediscovery, legal document review and case management for enterprises, law firms, legal services providers and governments.

Our scalable, integrated solution enables legal departments to easily collect, process and review enterprise data that is relevant or potentially relevant to legal matters.

Are you ready to help us fulfill our mission to use technology to strengthen the rule of law? Join us!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status


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