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Principal Backend Engineer - Datacenter

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Posted by Ranjana Singh
8 - 12 yrs
Best in industry
Hyderabad
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skill iconPython
skill iconJava
Microservices
Distributed Systems
skill iconPostgreSQL
NOSQL Databases
RabbitMQ
skill iconKubernetes
skill iconDocker
cicd
prometheus
skill icongrafana

Role Overview

We are hiring a Principal Datacenter Backend Developer to architect and build highly scalable, reliable backend platforms for modern data centers. This role owns control-plane and data-plane services powering orchestration, monitoring, automation, and operational intelligence across large-scale on-prem, hybrid, and cloud data center environments.

This is a hands-on principal IC role with strong architectural ownership and technical leadership responsibilities.


Key Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end backend architecture for datacenter platforms (orchestration, monitoring, DCIM, automation).
  • Design and build high-availability distributed systems at scale.
  • Develop backend services using Java (Spring Boot / Micronaut / Quarkus) and/or Python (FastAPI / Flask / Django).
  • Build microservices for resource orchestration, telemetry ingestion, capacity and asset management.
  • Design REST/gRPC APIs and event-driven systems.
  • Drive performance optimization, scalability, and reliability best practices.
  • Embed SRE principles, observability, and security-by-design.
  • Mentor senior engineers and influence technical roadmap decisions.


Required Skills

  • Strong hands-on experience in Java and/or Python.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems and microservices.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and cloud-native deployments.
  • Databases: PostgreSQL/MySQL, NoSQL, time-series data.
  • Messaging systems: Kafka / Pulsar / RabbitMQ.
  • Observability tools: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch.
  • Secure backend design (OAuth2, RBAC, audit logging).


Nice to Have

  • Experience with DCIM, NMS, or infrastructure automation platforms.
  • Exposure to hyperscale or colocation data centers.
  • AI/ML-based monitoring or capacity planning experience.


Why Join

  • Architect mission-critical platforms for large-scale data centers.
  • High-impact principal role with deep technical ownership.
  • Work on complex, real-world distributed systems problems.


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About CAW.Tech

Founded :
2017
Type :
Services
Size :
100-1000
Stage :
Bootstrapped

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CAW Studios is Product Development Studio. WE BUILD TRUE PRODUCT TEAMS for our clients. Each team is a small, well-balanced group of geeks and a product manager that together produce relevant and high-quality products. We use data to make decisions, bringing big data and analysis to software development. We believe the product development process is broken as most studios operate as IT Services. We operate like a software factory that applies manufacturing principles of product development to the software.

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