Backend - Senior Engineer

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<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Recruitment Fraud Alert</strong></p> <p>We’ve learned that scammers are impersonating Commvault team members—including HR and leadership—via email or text. These bad actors may conduct fake interviews and ask for personal information, such as your social security number. &nbsp;</p> <p><strong>What to know:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Commvault does&nbsp;<em>not</em>&nbsp;conduct interviews by email or text.</li> <li>We will never ask you to submit sensitive documents (including banking information, SSN, etc) before your first day.</li> </ul> <p>If you suspect a recruiting scam, please contact us at <u><a href="mailto:wwrecruitingteam@commvault.com">wwrecruitingteam@commvault.com</a>&nbsp;</u></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>About Commvault</strong>&nbsp;</p> <p>Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) is the gold standard in cyber resilience. The company empowers customers to uncover, take action, and rapidly recover from cyberattacks – keeping data safe and businesses resilient. The company’s unique AI-powered platform combines best-in-class data protection, exceptional data security, advanced data intelligence, and lightning-fast recovery across any workload or cloud at the lowest TCO. For over 25 years, more than 100,000 organizations and a vast partner ecosystem have relied on Commvault to reduce risks, improve governance, and do more with data.&nbsp;</p></div><p><strong>Backend - Senior Engineer</strong></p> <p><strong>The Opportunity</strong></p> <p>We have an outstanding career opportunity for Backend- Senior Engineer at Bangalore location. As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Clumio team, you are a key contributor to the backend systems that power the control and management plane of the cloud-native data protection platform. Reporting to an Engineering Director, this role emphasizes strong hands-on engineering, ownership of backend components, and collaboration across functions to deliver reliable production systems.</p> <p><strong>About the Team</strong></p> <p>The Clumio Backend team designs, builds, and operates core backend systems that support Clumio's cloud-native data protection platform. For many customers, data protection is not a "nice-to-have" capability, but a foundational requirement driven by compliance, audit, and security mandates. In these environments, recovery performance, cost efficiency, strong governance, and reliable operation at scale are critical differentiators. Built on a cloud-native architecture, the Backend team develops shared services and well-defined interfaces that abstract complexity from underlying systems and enable consistent, reliable, and scalable interactions across the platform. This work supports the continued evolution of the platform, enabling new capabilities, data sources, and workflows to be added efficiently and safely.</p> <p><strong>What you’ll do…</strong></p> <ul> <li>You design, build, and operate backend services that support core platform capabilities such as control planes, user-access management, and backup workflows.</li> <li>You take ownership of features or components, driving them from implementation through production operation, and continuously improve them based on real-world usage, operational signals, and customer feedback.</li> <li>You contribute to service design and API development, making sound technical trade-offs that balance correctness, scalability, cost, and maintainability under evolving requirements.</li> <li>You spend most of your time writing and reviewing production-quality code, diagnosing and resolving complex backend issues, and participating in on-call and operational responsibilities.</li> <li>You work closely with Product, quality assurance, customer-facing, and other teams to clarify requirements, ensure production readiness, and support smooth feature delivery.</li> <li>Through code quality, design contributions, and mentorship of junior engineers, you help reinforce best practices and strengthen the reliability and scalability of the backend platform.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Who you are…</strong></p> <ul> <li>Bachelor's degree required.</li> <li>4+ years of professional software engineering experience, including ownership of features or components from implementation through production operation.</li> <li>Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Go (Preferred), Python, Java, or Rust.</li> <li>Experience building and operating non-trivial production systems, including diagnosing issues and improving implementations based on real-world behavior.</li> <li>Ability to translate loosely defined requirements into correct, maintainable technical solutions and make sound trade-offs under uncertainty.</li> <li>Highly collaborative and self-driven, with a strong sense of shared ownership, and the ability to work effectively with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams, fostering open communication and alignment across time zones.</li> <li>Security and SaaS experience strongly preferred.</li> </ul> <p><strong>You’ll love working here because:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)</li> <li>Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing</li> <li>Annual health check-ups, Car lease Program, and Tuition Reimbursement</li> <li>An inclusive company culture, an opportunity to join our Community Guilds</li> <li>Personal accident cover and Term life cover</li> </ul> <p>Ready to #makeyourmark at Commvault? Apply now!</p> <p>&nbsp;</p><div class="content-conclusion"><div class="jd-info au-target" data-ph-at-id="jobdescription-text" data-ph-id="ph-page-element-page5-4e8TMw"> <p>Commvault is an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are always committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status and we will not discriminate against on the