Senior Software Engineer — Distributed Systems

Bengaluru · 4-6 years experience · Posted Oct 13, 2026

At a glance

Conviva is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Distributed Systems to design and build high-scale distributed systems focusing on Microservices, Stateful Stream Processing, Analytical Databases, and analytics AI Agents.
You will own components from design through production, solving challenges in high throughput ingestion, event processing, distributed state management, storage, and query performance.

Build Rust-based microservices for high-throughput, low-latency data processing and analytics.
Design service APIs and communication patterns with effective backpressure and failure handling.
Develop streaming pipelines for ingestion, sessionization, aggregations, and stateful computations.
Improve analytical storage and query performance through data modeling, indexing, and execution strategies.
Investigate bottlenecks across CPU, memory, disk, and network; improve performance and infrastructure efficiency.
Contribute to design reviews, mentor engineers, and collaborate across global teams.

4–6 years of software engineering experience, including ownership of production backend.
Strong programming skills in Rust, Python, Scala, Java, or Go.
Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, concurrency, networking, and operating systems.
Experience building distributed systems, streaming platforms, databases, or high-scale microservices.
Ability to reason about correctness and performance, diagnose failures, and explain design trade-offs.