We are looking for a skilled Lead Software Engineer with 5 to 10 years of experience to design, develop, and improve software solutions. This role is based in our Pune office.

Roles and Responsibility

Design, build, and maintain large-scale observability platforms, prioritizing comprehensive instrumentation and consistent emission of metrics, logs, and traces using OpenTelemetry.
Develop scalable observability strategies and best practices for product teams, ensuring seamless Observability.
Lead the adoption of tools such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana across multiple languages and frameworks.
Define and refine SLOs and SLIs with engineering and product teams, ensuring reliable system health measurement.
Collaborate with teams to identify observability gaps, improve monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes.
Mentor engineers on advanced instrumentation, observability design patterns, and effective use of dashboards and alerting.

Job Requirements

Experience in large-scale observability for distributed systems.
Advanced expertise with Open Telemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and distributed tracing platforms.
Strong knowledge of structured logging, metrics, and tracing across multiple programming languages (Java, Python, Go, Node.js).
Proven ability to develop and operationalize SLOs and SLIs using observability data.
Strong understanding of software development methodologies and technologies.
Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
Leadership responsibilities include contributing or setting strategy, driving requirements, making recommendations for change, planning resources, budgets, and policies, managing and maintaining policies/processes, delivering continuous improvements, and escalating breaches of policies/procedures.
If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department's future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance, and contribute to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, aligning with strategic as well as tactical priorities, balancing short and long-term goals, and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviors to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviors are: L Listen and be authentic, E Energise and inspire, A Align across the enterprise, D Develop others... OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identifying the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialization to complete assignments. They will train, guide, and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long-term profits, organizational risks, and strategic decisions. They will advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management, on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment. They will manage and mitigate risks through assessment, supporting the control and governance agenda, demonstrating leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work their team does. They will demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the organization functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business. They will collaborate with other areas of work for business-aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies. They will create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions. Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem-solving processes. Seek out, build, and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes. All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset to Empower, Challenge and Drive the operating manual for how we behave.

Additional Info

The company offers opportunities for professional growth and development.

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