Job Description
About the Role
We're hiring a Sr. Software Developer to design, build, and operate the platform and backend systems that power the Company at scale. You'll own core infrastructure — from Kubernetes and cloud-native services to APIs and developer tooling — and work closely with product, AI, and security teams. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role where you write production code, design systems, lead code reviews, and make the engineering organization more effective.
What You'll Do
- Own end-to-end delivery of major platform initiatives, from design through deployment and post-launch success.
- Own Kubernetes at depth — clusters, networking, operators, container lifecycle, and multi-tenant orchestration.
- Design, develop, and optimize distributed services and cloud-native infrastructure on AWS and/or GCP for scale, reliability, and performance.
- Drive engineering excellence through code quality standards, design reviews, automation, and CI/CD best practices.
- Collaborate across teams — Product, AI, and Security — to align architecture with business objectives.
- Be a mentor and multiplier, guiding engineers through architecture decisions, trade-offs, and delivery.
- Partner with leadership to align engineering strategy with product objectives and technical roadmap.
What We're Looking For
- 6+ years of software engineering with deep backend and infrastructure focus.
- Strong programming skills in Python and/or Go — you ship production code, not just scripts and configs.
- Deep, hands-on Kubernetes experience — building and operating clusters, not just deploying to them.
- Proven experience designing and operating distributed systems in production.
- Cloud-native fluency across AWS and/or GCP — compute, storage, IAM, networking, and managed services.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar) and CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with applied AI tooling and patterns — agentic AI tools (Claude, LiteLLM), AI gateways, agent frameworks — and being able to build backend services that integrate with them.
- Strong system design and architectural judgment.
- Clear communicator who partners well across product, security, and AI teams.
Nice to Have
- Observability stacks — Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry.
- Multi-cloud or hybrid infrastructure experience (AWS, GCP, on-prem).
- Familiarity with API gateways, AI gateways, and policy/authorization frameworks (ABAC, OPA).
- Service mesh or platform-as-a-service design experience.
- Track record of improving engineering productivity at scale.
Responsibilities
QUALIFICATIONS
About Us
At Zensar, we're
experience-led everything. We are committed to conceptualizing, designing, engineering, marketing, and managing digital solutions and experiences for over 130 leading enterprises. We are a company driven by a bold purpose:
Together, we shape experiences for better futures. Whether for our clients, our people, or the world around us, this belief powers everything we do. At the heart of our culture is
ONE with Client - a set of four core values that reflect who we are and how we work:
One Zensar, Nurturing, Empowering, and Client Focus.
Part of the $4.8 billion RPG Group, we're a community of 10,000+ innovators across 30+ global locations, including Milpitas, Seattle, Princeton, Cape Town, London, Zurich, Singapore, and Mexico City. Explore Life at Zensar and join us to Grow. Own. Achieve. Learn. to be the best version of yourself.
We believe the best work happens when individuality is celebrated, growth is encouraged, and well-being is prioritized. We are an equal employment opportunity (EEO) and affirmative action employer, committed to creating an inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, creed, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, family medical leave status, or protected veteran status.
