Backend - Staff Engineer – Platform

Netradyne harnesses the power of Computer Vision and Edge Computing to revolutionize the modern-day transportation ecosystem. We are a leader in fleet safety solutions. With growth exceeding 4x year over year, our solution is quickly being recognized as a significant disruptive technology. Our team is growing, and we need forward-thinking, uncompromising, competitive team members to continue to facilitate our growth.                                                                                                                                                                   Date: May 5, 2026   Job Description Job Title Backend - Staff Engineer – Platform Company Netradyne Location Whitefield, Bangalore Employment Type Full-Time Work Model On-site (5 days WFO) Shift General Shift Experience Required 6+ years   About Netradyne: Netradyne provides AI-powered technologies for fleet management and safer roads. An award-winning industry leader in fleet safety and video telematics solutions, Netradyne empowers thousands of commercial fleet customers across North America, Europe, and Asia to enhance their driver performance, reduce risk, and optimize operations. Netradyne sets the standard among transportation technology companies for enhancing and sustaining road safety, with an industry-leading 25+ billion miles vision-analyzed for risk and an industry-first driver scoring system that reinforces safe behaviors. Founded in 2015, Netradyne is headquartered in San Diego with offices in San Francisco, Nashville, the UK and Bangalore. For more details visit: www.netradyne.com   Job Overview: We operate large‑scale, distributed systems that process billions of events per day with strict requirements on  reliability, latency, data correctness, and cost efficiency . At Netradyne, you’ll work with a talented team of engineers, data scientists, and product leaders on problems that have a direct, real‑world impact on roads, fleets, and drivers. As a Staff Engineer, you will be a  deep domain owner  for IOT device Ingestion while closely collaborating with the adjacent domain. Your work will shape large‑scale systems relied on by fleets, drivers, and internal product ecosystems. As a  Staff Engineer – Platform , you provide strong technical leadership and hands‑on ownership of core backend services and pipelines. You will anchor one of the primary domains from Netradyne portfolio of services and influence cross‑team architecture and execution. You are expected to: Own key service architectures Design scalable ingestion and compliance workflows Ensure data quality, correctness, and reliability Mentor engineers and drive high engineering standards ​ Key Responsibilities: ​ Architecture & Technical Ownership Own architecture, design, and evolution of platform services. Drive system design for large cross‑service features from ingestion to downstream consumers. Define and maintain clean service boundaries, APIs, and data contracts. Platform & Systems Development Design scalable, high‑throughput ingestion pipelines for logs, telematics, and event data. Build and optimize streaming and batch data workflows. Translate  regulatory requirements into robust system behavior and guardrails. Ensure correctness, ordering, idempotency, and fault tolerance across workflows. Reliability & Observability Define and uphold SLOs for latency, availability, and data accuracy. Champion best practices in logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting. Design for backpressure handling, graceful degradation, and system recovery. Data Modeling & Storage Design data models and partitioning strategies for hot and cold data. Select appropriate storage technologies (SQL, NoSQL, time‑series, object storage) balancing scale, performance, and cost. Cross‑Team Collaboration Work closely with Product, Data, Compliance, and Engineering teams to deliver domain initiatives. Lead design reviews, contribute to RFCs, and support cross‑team architecture discussions. Mentorship & Engineering Quality Mentor engineers on system design, distributed systems, and platform thinking. Improve code quality, documentation, and operational best practices. Mandatory Skills Strong CS fundamentals (DSA & system design). Deep hands‑on backend experience with Java, Spring Boot. Strong grounding in distributed systems concepts: consistency, durability, retries, idempotency, backpressure, partitioning, resilience. Practical experience with Kafka / Kinesis / Pulsar or similar. Experience operating production systems (on‑call, incidents, postmortems). Excellent communication and technical leadership