Software Engineer (Backend)

Cupertino Until 8/22/2026 First posted March 21, 2025 Last posted March 21, 2025
Job description

Kloudfuse was founded by Krishna Yadappanavar, former co-founder of SpringPath, Pankaj Thakkar, former executive at Nicira/VMWare, and Ashish Hanwadikar, architect at Cisco. Krishna founded SpringPath and led the company to its acquisition by Cisco in 2017. We are venture funded and led by the leading investors in Silicon Valley.

Kloudfuse AI takes observability data to the next level. Our HawkEye and BullsEye analytics engine generates intelligent auto-alerts, contextualizes across streams, and filters noise efficiently for the fastest possible troubleshooting. The Kloudfuse platform provides a SaaS-like experience by providing an optional control plane to manage the life cycle of the data plane. Operations are a breeze with Kloudfuse.

Preferred qualifications

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience

  • Experience with architecting and developing production web-scale systems (monitoring, telemetry, performance, reliability, triage and debug)

  • Experience building and maintaining large scale, distributed and high-performance data pipelines

  • Data Structures and Algorithms

  • Systems Design experience

  • A polyglot engineer with expertise in multiple languages like Golang, Java, Python, etc.

  • Hands on experience with the AWS stack

  • Experience with Databases (SQL and NoSQL)

  • Experience working  with column-oriented, distributed data stores like Apache Pinot

  • Experience with Docker, containerization and Kubernetes

  • You enjoy solving hard technical problems with outside-the-box solutions

  • Identity management and authorization experience desired

  • Experience with CI-CD pipelines

  • Early-stage growth startup experience desired

  • Experience working in observability-based products preferred

  • Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science or related field

About the Role:

  • Work setting: On-site based out of the Cupertino office in SF Bay Area.

  • Salary Range: $170K TO $220K plus equity

  • Benefits: 401k with company match and generous health benefits including Medical/Dental/Vision 

About this role

Summary

Develop and maintain high-performance distributed systems, data pipelines, and backend infrastructure.

Job title

Software Engineer (Backend)

Experience level

8+ years

Industry

software

Location requirements

On-site in Cupertino, no remote work allowed.

Salary

$170K to $220K plus equity

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

software engineeringweb-scale systemsdistributed data pipelinessystems designGolangJavaPythonAWSSQLNoSQLApache PinotDockerKubernetesCI-CD

Preferred skills

observabilityidentity managementauthorizationearly-stage startup experience

Specializations

web-scale systemsdistributed data pipelinessystems designcloud computingdatabases
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Cupertino, CA, USA

On-site City