Software Engineer - Java

📋 Description

• Design, build and operate the Java backend of our distributed job scheduling platform
• Develop gRPC/protobuf APIs consumed by Python, Java and C++ clients across the firm
• Build event-driven services on Kafka for job lifecycle tracking, data lineage, and dataset
• Work hands-on with Kubernetes at scale: pod scheduling, fair-share queueing, preemption and
• Instrument, monitor and firefight production systems, and drive root-cause analysis of performance
• Support and consult research users in the India office

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of professional Java development experience (Java 17+, Maven/Gradle, strong grasp of
• 2+ year of hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Docker (building on the K8s API is a strong plus)
• Comfortable developing in Python; our client libraries and research users are Python-first, and
• Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals: state machines, retries/idempotency
• Experience with workload scheduling or batch/compute orchestration systems (e.g. Kubernetes
• Experience with messaging/streaming systems such as Kafka