Senior Software Engineer

SingleStore's platform team builds the internal systems that keep its own engineers productive, which makes this a developer infrastructure job rather than a product one. The work is observable microservice applications that let engineers build and test across a multi cloud environment, and relentless improvement of CI/CD throughput, debugging and triage operations, and workload execution runtimes for a global engineering workforce. At 3 years it is one of the more accessible roles in this edition, and the posting is unusually honest about levelling: it says the role is open across multiple levels and that final placement as Senior, Staff or Principal is decided on experience, scope and demonstrated technical leadership during the interview process. So the 3 year figure is a floor to get in the door, not a ceiling on what you can be hired as.

Required by the posting: 3+ years of experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to Python, C/C++, JavaScript or Go. Comprehension of GitOps and managing infrastructure as code. Experience with databases, particularly SQL based ones. Experience with containers and Kubernetes based applications running in public cloud or in on premises data centres, and the posting notes you will have both available to you. Deep interest and experience in distributed systems, databases, networking, storage, multi tenant services and Unix/Linux environments. A B.S. degree in Computer Science or a similar field, or equivalent working experience. The posting also asks for strong empathy toward fellow developers and a passion for quality engineering and software testing efficiency, which fits a team whose customers are other engineers.

The real day to day: building observable, microservice oriented applications that let SingleStore engineers build and test in a multi cloud environment; designing technical solutions that raise engineering productivity company wide; and improving CI/CD throughput, debugging and triage operations, and workload execution runtimes for a global engineering workforce.

Levelling, stated in the posting: this role is open across multiple levels, and final levelling as Senior, Staff or Principal is determined by experience, scope of impact and demonstrated technical leadership through the interview process. Treat 3 years as the entry bar rather than the target.

Location and working pattern: listed as India, with the requisition sitting in SingleStore's Hyderabad office.

Honest fit guidance: internal developer platform work is a genuinely good career move at 3 to 5 years because you touch build systems, cloud, Kubernetes and testing at once, but it is not product engineering and your users are colleagues. The posting is clear that it wants someone who enjoys mentoring while staying hands on. If you want to be close to the database engine itself, SingleStore's Database Engine postings are the ones to look at instead.