Senior Software Engineer – Dapr OSS

• Design and build features in the Dapr runtime from proposal to release
• Review community and team pull requests, maintaining standards for correctness, tests and API design
• Find and fix distributed-systems bugs involving race conditions, retries, partial failures and crash-resistant state
• Write public proposals and design documents and respond to review
• Participate in Dapr releases, including release candidates, patch releases and security fixes
• Help users and contributors on GitHub and Discord
• Mentor new contributors
• Help hire the India team by shaping the hiring process and interviewing candidates
• Onboard new engineers in Dapr, the codebase and team practices
• Serve as the go-to India contact for questions, feedback and support
• Escalate issues to engineers’ technical managers when needed
• Build an engineering culture in India aligned with ownership, quality and working in the open
• Work with leadership on India-specific hiring plans, working hours and team setup
• Represent Diagrid in the local engineering and open source community
• Remain hands-on, with most time focused on runtime engineering

• 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
• Strong computer science base: concurrency, networking and data consistency
• Daily, practical use of AI coding tools, and judgment to check their output before shipping
• Clear written English
• Availability for a core US overlap window of 8:30 PM to 12:00 AM IST
• Must be based in India
• Immigration sponsorship and work authorization information required during application
• Bonus: merged contributions to open source Go projects, especially CNCF projects
• Bonus: experience as a maintainer of an open source project
• Bonus: experience with Dapr or workflow and durable execution engines
• Bonus: gRPC and Protocol Buffers
• Bonus: Java, Python, JavaScript, .NET or Rust experience

• 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