Senior Software Engineer – Dapr OSS

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Design and develop features in the Dapr runtime, overseeing the process from proposal to release.

• Evaluate community and team pull requests, ensuring adherence to standards concerning correctness, testing, and API design.

• Identify and resolve bugs in distributed systems related to race conditions, retries, partial failures, and crash-resilient states.

• Compose public proposals and design documents and engage in the review process.

• Participate in Dapr releases, which include release candidates, patch updates, and security enhancements.

• Assist users and contributors via GitHub and Discord.

• Mentor new contributors to the project.

• Support the recruitment of the India team by influencing the hiring process and interviewing candidates.

• Onboard new engineers regarding Dapr, the codebase, and team practices.

• Act as the primary point of contact in India for inquiries, feedback, and support.

• Elevate issues to the technical managers of engineers when necessary.

• Foster an engineering culture in India that emphasizes ownership, quality, and transparency.

• Collaborate with leadership on India-specific hiring strategies, working hours, and team structure.

• Represent Diagrid within the local engineering and open-source communities.

• Remain actively engaged, dedicating the majority of time to runtime engineering.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of professional experience in Go, with the ability to explain production code line by line.

• Experience in designing and operating distributed systems.

• More than 2 years of experience with Kubernetes and containers.

• Strong foundational knowledge in computer science, focusing on concurrency, networking, and data consistency.

• Daily hands-on experience with AI coding tools, coupled with the ability to assess their output before deployment.

• Proficient written English skills.

• Availability for a core overlap with US hours from 8:30 PM to 12:00 AM IST.

• Must reside in India.

• Immigration sponsorship and work authorization details are required during the application process.

• Bonus: Contributions to open-source Go projects, particularly those associated with CNCF.

• Bonus: Experience in maintaining an open-source project.

• Bonus: Familiarity with Dapr or workflow and durable execution engines.

• Bonus: Knowledge of gRPC and Protocol Buffers.

• Bonus: Experience with programming languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, .NET, or Rust.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary package.

• Company equity options.

• Remote-first and flexible working environment.

• Flexible paid time off policy.

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage for you and your dependents.

• Choice of hardware for your work setup.

• $1000 allowance for home office setup.

• Monthly work-from-home stipend.

• Opportunities for team events and gatherings.

• Ability to collaborate with industry-leading professionals.