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About this Staff Software Engineer role at Telstra

Telstra · Onsite · Bengaluru, Karnataka

Employment Type

Permanent

Closing Date

25 Oct 2026 11:59pm

Job Title

Staff Software Engineer

Job Summary

Job Description


About the Role

We're looking for an experienced Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership across teams, shape engineering strategy, and drive the design of scalable, secure, and resilient software solutions. You'll influence without direct authority, mentor engineers, simplify complex systems, and align technology decisions with customer, product, security, operational, and commercial outcomes.


What We Offer

  • Performance-related pay
  • Access to thousands of learning programs so you can level-up
  • Global presence across 22 countries; opportunities to work where we do business.
  • Up to 26 weeks maternity leave provided to the birth mother with benefits for all child births
  • Up to 16 weeks paid paternity leave provided to the non-birthing partners
  • Employees are entitled to 21 paid annual leaves per calendar year
  • Eligible employees are entitled to 12 days of paid sick / casual leave per calendar year
  • Relocation support options across India, from junior to senior positions within the company
  • Receive insurance benefits such as medical, accidental and life insurances

What You'll Do

Technical Leadership & Architecture

  • Lead technical direction across multiple teams and strategic initiatives.
  • Design and govern scalable, cloud-native, distributed systems and platforms.
  • Define architectural patterns, engineering standards, and reusable solutions.
  • Drive design reviews, technology roadmaps, and architectural decision-making.
  • Identify and address technical debt, scalability risks, operational challenges, and security concerns.

Software Engineering

  • Develop and support production-grade applications using Java (17+), Spring Boot, and/or Node.js with TypeScript.
  • Design robust REST APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
  • Apply Domain-Driven Design (DDD), clean architecture, and modern engineering principles.
  • Build highly available systems leveraging technologies such as Kafka, Redis Streams, SNS/SQS, and other messaging platforms.
  • Champion quality through automated testing, performance engineering, and secure coding practices.

Cloud & Platform Engineering

  • Design and operate solutions on AWS (preferred), Azure, or GCP.
  • Leverage Kubernetes, Docker, and modern platform engineering practices to enable scalable and resilient services.
  • Build reusable platform capabilities, self-service tooling, and developer-friendly engineering experiences.
  • Apply Infrastructure as Code and GitOps practices using Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, or FluxCD.

Reliability, Security & DevOps

  • Drive automation and continuous delivery practices across the software lifecycle.
  • Establish observability through logging, metrics, tracing, and operational insights.
  • Define and improve reliability measures including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
  • Champion secure-by-design engineering, cloud security, API security, and DevSecOps practices.
  • Lead incident investigations and transform learnings into lasting improvements.

Engineering Excellence & Mentorship

  • Set standards for architecture, maintainability, testing, performance, and security.
  • Mentor senior engineers through technical reviews, coaching, and hands-on collaboration.
  • Foster a culture of continuous improvement and engineering excellence.
  • Contribute to technical strategy, communities of practice, and capability uplift across engineering teams.

About You

Required Experience

  • Significant software engineering experience operating at Senior, Lead, Principal, or Staff Engineer level.
  • Strong hands-on expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, TypeScript, APIs, and distributed systems.
  • Deep understanding of microservices, event-driven architecture, asynchronous messaging, and cloud-native development.
  • Proven experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and platform engineering practices.
  • Strong background in software architecture, DDD, SOLID principles, observability, reliability, and production operations.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence across teams, mentor engineers, and balance strategic thinking with pragmatic delivery.

Desirable Experience

  • Frontend technologies including React, TypeScript, and Next.js.
  • AI and Generative AI technologies including LLMs, RAG, agentic systems, LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, and AI platform engineering.
  • Platform engineering, Internal Developer Platforms, SRE, and large-scale enterprise modernisation.
  • Experience within highly regulated, security-focused enterprise environments.

Preferred Qualifications

  • AWS, Kubernetes, Security, Architecture, Cloud, or AI-related certifications.
  • Experience building high-volume customer-facing platforms and enterprise-scale systems.

Why Join Us?

This is an opportunity to influence the future of engineering at scale, working across cloud, platform, AI, and modern software architecture initiatives. You'll help shape technical strategy, mentor engineering teams, and build the resilient, secure, and innovative platforms that power exceptional customer experiences.

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About Telstra

We're an iconic Aussie brand with a global footprint. From our earliest days in the Postmaster General’s Office to the Australian icon we are today, the heart of Telstra has never changed. We’ve always been committed to being a great place to work as we make the world a better place too. Working at Telstra, we all have a why. Whether it’s endless career opportunities, an amazing work-life balance or being able to make a difference, we all know why we’re motivated to be our best here. Our people find purpose and pride in being part of Telstra, because we support the things that matter most.

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