Lead Software Engineer - Network Platform & SRE
Barclays · Pune · Posted 2026-07-18
Tech stack: Golang, Java, Jenkins, Kafka, Kubernetes, Linux, Python
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About the role
To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.
Responsibilities:
- Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
- Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
- Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
- Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
- Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
- Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.
Qualifications:
- Lead Software Engineer - Network Platform & SRE
- , you should possess the following skillsets:
- Strong Linux proficiency and expertise with containerization and Kubernetes with programming expertise in one of the high-level languages like Python, Java, Golang and NetDevOps automation.
- Hands-on expertise with IaC, Cloud Platforms, CI/CD Pipelines for Data, Containerization & Orchestration and SRE principles.
- Strong Knowledge and demonstrable hands-on experience with middleware technologies (Kafka, API gateways etc) and Data Engineering tools/frameworks like Apache Spark, Airflow, Flink and Hadoop ecosystems.
- Expertise building ELT pipelines and cloud/storage integrations - data lake/warehouse integrations (redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake etc).
- Solid understanding of DevOps tooling, GitOps, CI/CD, config management, Jenkins, build pipelines and source control systems. Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure services: compute, storage, networking, hybrid connectivity, monitoring/logging, security and IAM.
- SRE Experience. Expertise building and defining KPI’s (SLI/SLO’s) using open-source tooling like ELK, Prometheus and various other instrumentation, telemetry, and log analytics.
- You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
- This role is based in our Pune or Bengaluru office.
Qualifications
- Lead Software Engineer
- Network Platform & SRE you should possess the following skillsets:
- Strong Linux proficiency and expertise with containerization and Kubernetes with programming expertise in one of the high-level languages like Python, Java, Golang and NetDevOps automation.
- Hands-on expertise with IaC, Cloud Platforms, CI/CD Pipelines for Data, Containerization & Orchestration and SRE principles.
- Strong Knowledge and demonstrable hands-on experience with middleware technologies (Kafka, API gateways etc) and Data Engineering tools/frameworks like Apache Spark, Airflow, Flink and Hadoop ecosystems.
- Expertise building ELT pipelines and cloud/storage integrations - data lake/warehouse integrations (redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake etc).
- Solid understanding of DevOps tooling, GitOps, CI/CD, config management, Jenkins, build pipelines and source control systems.
- Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure services: compute, storage, networking, hybrid connectivity, monitoring/logging, security and IAM.
- SRE Experience.
- Expertise building and defining KPI’s (SLI/SLO’s) using open-source tooling like ELK, Prometheus and various other instrumentation, telemetry, and log analytics.
- You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
- This role is based in our Pune or Bengaluru office.
Responsibilities
- Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools.
- Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
- Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
- Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
- Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
- Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
- Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.