Freshworks is hiring
Senior Staff Engineer - Systems
📋 Description
- Define and own the platform architecture roadmap for your domain, including the target state and a
- Design scalable, secure, and cost-efficient architectures supporting high-throughput, low-latency
- Establish architecture standards, design principles, decision records, and review practices.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and own build-versus-buy decisions with measurable outcomes.
- Architect and build cloud-native services and APIs that scale with global growth.
- Design service decomposition, API contracts, messaging and event-driven flows, caching strategies
🎯 Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related
- 14+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or systems architecture
- Expert-level backend engineering in Java, Python, Go, or equivalent — currently hands-on.
- Proven experience designing and operating enterprise-scale, multi-tenant SaaS platforms, with real
- Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals: consistency and idempotency, retries and
- Demonstrated ownership of large-scale migrations or modernization initiatives with measurable
