JioStar

Staff Software Development Engineer - Backend

Bengaluru · Staff/Principal

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Job Summary: As a Staff engineer, the role entails a passion to contribute significantly to the design of platforms by solving complex technical problems and building systems that run at an enormous scale. Your skills will be essential in addressing intricate technical challenges, constructing scalable systems, and guiding the team to realize their maximum potential!

About the team: This is a rare opportunity to architect a foundational layer of the company’s traffic and routing infrastructure. You’ll be solving complex problems at scale — from evolving our API gateway stack to building a powerful traffic abstraction platform and enabling reliable, high-performance delivery across multiple clouds and CDNs.

Your work will directly impact how services are exposed, secured, and observed across the company, making this one of the most impactful engineering roles in the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

Design and build scalable, resilient microservices that power JioStar’s ad tech stack

Own end-to-end delivery of complex backend projects, from technical design to deployment and monitoring

Write high-quality, maintainable code, and ensure rigorous testing and fault tolerance

Drive architectural decisions and influence long-term engineering strategy for the team

Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Data Scientists, and cross-functional teams to translate business needs into tech solutions

Take ownership of operational excellence, including performance tuning, incident response, and root cause analysis

Mentor junior engineers, conduct technical deep dives and code reviews, and foster a culture of knowledge sharing

Skills & Attributes for success:

Strong coding and designing skills (Java or Golang)

Experience in building high-scale distributed domain-driven microservices

Proficiency with databases like MySQL, NoSql (Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB)

Embrace new technologies and work with various tools and technologies to achieve the desired functionality

Experience with AWS stacks like SQS, Dynamo DB, EKS, Aurora, etc. will be an added advantage

Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to debug complex issues in production environments

Communicate effectively with stakeholders and collaborate well within a team environment to achieve desired results

Preferred Education & Experience:

B-Tech or M-Tech in Computer Science or a related technical discipline from a reputed university.

8+ years of progressive experience in software development, with a proven track record of delivering complex projects on time.

About Us

Perched firmly at the nucleus of spellbinding content and innovative technology, JioStar is a leading global media & entertainment company that is reimagining the way audiences consume entertainment and sports. Its television network and streaming service together reach more than 750 million viewers every week, igniting the dreams and aspirations of hundreds of million people across geographies.

JioStar is an equal opportunity employer. The company values diversity and its mission is to create a workplace where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. The company ensures that the work environment is free from any discrimination against persons with disabilities, gender, gender identity and any other characteristics or status that is legally protected

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