Hybrid Software Engineer III

at Smarsh

• Job title: Software Engineer III
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Grafana, Java, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Spring, Spring Boot, SpringBoot, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Bangalore, India

About the role

• Software Engineer in Hosting team at Smarsh, enabling self-service capabilities with a focus on digital communication risk management. Join a global organization recognized for diversity and innovation.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and evolve the APIs that provide self-service platform capabilities to the wider engineering organization.
• Designing and maintain scalable, resilience and secure applications that enable the Hosting team to reduce operational overhead.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, automation, and engineering excellence
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams and Product Management to align platform capabilities with business objectives
• Ensure best practices in security, reliability, observability, and performance across the platform estate
• Contribute to strategic planning and help shape the technical roadmap for the Hosting function
• Advocate for and embed platform engineering principles, including self-service, standardization, and automation
• Contribute to both Application Development and Platform engineering disciplines.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of hands-on industry experience building and operating production software
• Strong experience developing API-driven applications using Java and Spring Boot
• Deep understanding of REST principles and experience designing resilient, secure, and scalable REST APIs
• Strong grounding in software engineering best practices, including automated testing, CI driven deployment workflows, and clean code principles
• Experience working in a “you build it, you run it” environment, with ownership of services from design through to production support
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and its ecosystem (e.g. Helm, Kustomize, Karpenter), with a strong desire to deepen expertise
• Experience with at least one major cloud platform (ideally AWS) - familiarity with EKS considered a significant bonus
• Experience using Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform) to provision or support application environments
• Practical understanding of observability (metrics, logging, tracing) to monitor services in production environments. Ideally with experience in Grafana/Prometheus.
• Sound security awareness, with experience embedding security best practices into development and deployment workflows
• Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Benefits

• Smarsh hires lifelong learners with a passion for innovating with purpose, humility and humor.
• Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do.
• We are a global organization that values diversity.
• Smarsh leadership, culture, and commitment to developing our people have all garnered Comparably.com Best Places to Work Awards.