Diagrid

Senior Software Engineer (Dapr OSS) – India Lead

Remote India. Posted 16 days ago

The role

You will design and build features in the Dapr runtime and lead the engineering team in India. You will also review code, fix bugs in distributed code, and help hire and onboard the India team.

What you will do

  • Design and build features in the Dapr runtime, from proposal to release.
  • Review pull requests from the community and from your team.
  • Find and fix bugs in distributed code.
  • Write proposals and design docs in public.
  • Take part in Dapr releases.
  • Help users and contributors on GitHub and Discord, and mentor new contributors.
  • Help hire the India team by shaping the hiring process and interviewing candidates.
  • Onboard new engineers.
  • Be the go-to person in India for questions, feedback and support.
  • Represent Diagrid in the local engineering and open source community.

Required qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional Go, with production code you can explain line by line.
  • Experience designing and running distributed systems.
  • 2+ years with Kubernetes and containers.
  • A strong computer science base: concurrency, networking and data consistency.
  • Daily, practical use of AI coding tools, and the judgment to check their output before you ship it.
  • Clear written English.

Nice to have

  • Merged contributions to open source Go projects, especially CNCF projects.
  • Experience as a maintainer of an open source project.
  • Experience with Dapr, or with workflow and durable execution engines (Temporal, Azure Durable Functions, AWS Step Functions).
  • gRPC and Protocol Buffers.
  • One of the other languages Dapr has SDKs for: Java, Python, JavaScript, .NET or Rust.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • Company equity
  • Remote first & flexible work environment
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Comprehensive healthcare for you and your dependents
  • Choice of hardware
  • $1000 for home office setup
  • Monthly WFH stipend
  • Team events & gatherings
  • Chance to collaborate with industry-leading figures

About the company

Diagrid is founded by the creators of the Dapr and KEDA open-source projects. The mission is to provide developers with APIs and tools that help them focus on their code and not on infrastructure.