Software Engineer - Java Backend (India)

Location: Anywhere in India (candidate MUST be located at India to apply)

Join our innovative team at Alkira, Inc. a Network Infrastructure On-Demand company. Our India Engineering team is looking for a Java Software Engineer to join our growing team. The Engineer will develop software for Alkira’s CSX (Cloud Services Exchange). The work will involve design, development & debugging of the software responsible for the networking functions that drive Alkira’s CSX.

Responsibilities:

• Build large-scale distributed systems for scalability and resiliency.
• Develop innovative software solutions for our enterprise-focused cloud application.
• Design, develop and maintain application programming interfaces (APIs) for different microservices for the Alkira product line.
• Design, develop, and deliver highly scalable and reliable web applications.
• Develop and maintain microservices using Java programming language.
• Perform unit testing on developed software modules and fixing bugs found during system testing.
• Work on customer escalations and issues found in the modules developed, and being maintained.
• Develop distributed applications using relational databases like Postgres.
• Containerize and deploy microservices in the Kubernetes cluster.
• Develop server-side RESTful application programming interfaces.

Requirements:

• Requires B.S./M.S. or equivalent in EE or CS,  plus 3+ years of JAVA programming and debugging skills.
• Good grasp on computer science fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, operating system).
• Proven skills and Hands-on programming experience in Java, SpringBoot, multi-threading, REST, Data Caching Services, DB schema design and data access technologies.
• Good experience working with Linux Kernel and related technologies.
• Prior experience of working on UNIX-like OS is a plus.
• Team-player: The candidate should be able to work in teams of various sizes that may be geographically distributed.
• Utilizing container technologies including Docker, Docker Compose, or Kubernetes to build and manage microservice-based services.
• Understand security concepts and build reliable and safe distributed applications.
• Strong computer networking concepts are a plus.
• Working on distributed data processing at a large scale using Elasticsearch, Logstash, Spark, Hadoop or Kafka.
• Automating software testing procedures for testing APIs.
• Ability to successfully multitask and support multiple, concurrent projects.
• Experience with Spring framework preferred.

About Alkira: 

Alkira was founded in 2018 by Amir and Atif Khan, the visionary computer networking team that created the multi-billion-dollar SD-WAN market with the founding of Viptela. Now, we have reinvented networking for the cloud era by delivering Network Infrastructure On-Demand, the first global unified network infrastructure with on-demand hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity, integrated network and security services, end-to-end visibility, controls and governance, all delivered as-a-service.

Alkira provides a unique value proposition by offering:

• On-demand network infrastructure as-a-service with integrated security and networking services available globally
• The ability to securely connect any cloud, any on-prem location, any remote user or app to any other point of presence
• Agility, elasticity, intelligence, security, and scale for traditional networking use cases
• A platform to build global, secure networks in minutes, eliminating the need to acquire hardware, manage physical circuits, and run software appliances or agents on-site

Join us on the multi-cloud networking journey. Click here to know more about how Alkira, Inc is reinventing networking! Also, check out other career opportunities at our careers site.