Principal Software Engineer - Backend/Java - India

About CloudBees

CloudBees enables enterprises to deliver scalable, compliant, and secure software, empowering developers to do their best work.

Seamlessly integrating into any hybrid and heterogeneous environment, CloudBees is more than a tool—it's a strategic partner in your cloud transformation journey, ensuring security, compliance, and operational efficiency while enhancing the developer experience across your entire software development lifecycle. It allows developers to bring and execute their code anywhere, providing greater flexibility and freedom through fast, self-serve, and secure workflows.

CloudBees supports organizations at every step of their DevSecOps journey, whether using Jenkins on-premise or transitioning software delivery to the cloud. We’re helping customers build the future, today.

What You’ll Do

• Be part of a 2 week sprint executing on the backlog  in lockstep with other developers, writing code as part of an Agile team.
• Work as an independent contributor collaborating with a team of developers and test engineers.
• Collaborate with product management, support and engineering teams in order to establish priorities.
• Mentoring Junior Developers & code reviewing for a remote team setting best practices and policies, writing specs, wiki pages, Knowledge Base articles and other internal documentation.
• Work closely with the Support team, and communicate with customer sysadmins, DBAs and developers for troubleshooting.
• Provide technology recommendations and strategy to support CloudBees product requirements.
• Collaborate with product management, support and engineering teams in order to establish priorities, understand requirements, formulate test plans and execute them accordingly.
• Ability to work with customers directly on urgent issues.

Role Requirements

• Expert hands-on knowledge of Core Java (10+ years), JUnit.
• Solid experience with Spring and Hibernate frameworks.
• Experience developing backend components, services or APIs in Java or a similar language.
• Experience using public (or private) cloud provider platforms like GCP, AWS or Azure, Kubernetes and Docker containers.
• Experience with analyzing thread safety and race conditions, parallelism, synchronization, and locking, including between threads, between machines in a cluster, and in the database, including optimistic and pessimistic locking. 
• Strong skills writing high-performance, multi-threaded, efficient and maintainable code.
• Experience crafting and implementing highly scalable and performant microservices based applications.
• Familiarity with HTTP, REST, HTML, JSON, and similar web-based development technologies, and with building complex multi-tier parallel distributed systems that communicate with them (such as the backend of complex websites).
• Knowledge of SQL and experience working with mainstream databases (one of MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server), SQL query optimisation, differences between MySQL / Oracle / SQLServer / Postgres.
• Experience with building, maintaining and scaling large scale distributed systems.
• You can identify trade-offs to various implementations and can make decisions about which solution would be best for a given situation.
• Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands-on experience with public cloud offerings (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Good exposure to performance tuning tools 
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science

Nice to haves

• Architectural experience , System design , Built a product from scratch  etc., 
• Groovy / Spock, Shell scripting, and PHP.
• Ability to build and debug third party software with custom patches.
• Elasticsearch / Opensearch.
• C++, CPPUnit, Make.
• JS/TS, VSCode/IntelliJ experience.
• Knowledge of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) is a plus.
• Basic DBA skills in Oracle and writing transactional code.

We’re invested in you!

We offer generous paid time off to allow our employees time to rest, recharge and to be present with family and friends throughout the year. At CloudBees, we truly believe that the more diverse we are, the better we serve our customers. A global community like Jenkins demands a global focus from CloudBees. Organizations with greater diversity—gender, racial, ethnic, and global—are stronger partners to their customers.

Whether by creating more innovative products, or better understanding our worldwide customers, or establishing a stronger cross-section of cultural leadership skills, diversity strengthens all aspects of the CloudBees organization. In the technology industry, diversity creates a competitive advantage. CloudBees customers demand technologies from us that solve their software development, and therefore their business problems, so that they can better serve their own customers. CloudBees attributes much of its success to its worldwide work force and commitment to global diversity, which opens our proprietary software to innovative ideas from anywhere.

Along the way, we have witnessed firsthand how employees, partners, and customers with diverse perspectives and experiences contribute to creative problem-solving and better solutions for our customers and their businesses.

Scam Notice

Please be aware that there are individuals and organizations that may attempt to scam job seekers by offering fraudulent employment opportunities in the name of CloudBees. These scams may involve fake job postings, unsolicited emails, or messages claiming to be from our recruiters or hiring managers. Please note that CloudBees will never ask for any personal account information, such as cell phone, credit card details or bank account numbers, during the recruitment process. Additionally, CloudBees will never send you a check for any equipment prior to employment.

All communication from our recruiters and hiring managers will come from official company email addresses (@cloudbees.com) or from Paylocity and will never ask for any payment, fee to be paid or purchases to be made by the job seeker. If you are contacted by anyone claiming to represent CloudBees and you are unsure of their authenticity, please do not provide any personal/financial information and contact us immediately at tahelp@cloudbees.com.

We take these matters very seriously and will work to ensure that any fraudulent activity is reported and dealt with appropriately. If you feel like you have been scammed in the US, please report it to the Federal Trade Commission at: https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/#/.

In Europe, please contact the European Anti-Fraud Office at:  https://anti-fraud.ec.europa.eu/olaf-and-you/report-fraud_en 

Signs of a Recruitment Scam

· Ensure there are no other domains before or after @cloudbees.com.  For example:  “name.dr.cloudbees.com”

· Check any documents for poor spelling and grammar – this is often a sign that fraudsters are at work.

· If they provide a generic email address such as @Yahoo or @Hotmail as a point of contact.

· You are asked for money, an “administration fee”, “security fee” or an “accreditation fee”.

- You are asked for cell phone account information. 

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