Employment Type Permanent Closing Date 1 Sept 2023 11:59pm Job Title Staff Engineer Principal - Bangalore Job Summary Job Description Telstra is Australia’s leading telecommunications and technology company spanning over a century, with a footprint in over 20+ countries. In India, we’re building a platform for innovative delivery and engagement that will strengthen our position as an industry leader. We’ve grown quickly since our inception in 2019, now with offices in Pune, Hyderabad, and Bangalore. Here’s what you can expect from us: Flexible working. Choose when and how you work so you can be at your best. Pay for performance. We recognise outstanding contributions through our generous incentive programs. Maternity Leave. Up to 26 weeks provided to the birth mother with benefits for all childbirths. Public Holidays - Employees are entitled to twelve (12) paid holidays per calendar year. Sick/Casual Leaves - All eligible employees are entitled to twelve (12) days of paid sick/casual leave per calendar year. Relocation options. We provide you and even your family support to relocate across India, from junior to senior positions within the company. Insurance benefits. Receive generous insurance benefits such as medical, accidental, and life insurance. Unlimited learning. Level up your credentials with access to 17,000 learning programs. Learn ‘on the job’ and achieve university credits towards degrees and master’s programs. Global presence. With a global presence across 22 countries, there are many opportunities to work where we do business. Make a difference As part of Product and Technology, your mission will be to capture market value at scale by building products that offer our customers a great experience, are seamless to deliver, and are profitable to the core. Our teams use technology, automation, and innovation to try and decode the world’s biggest technological challenges in areas such as the Internet of Things (IoT), 5G, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, and more. What is the focus of the role? As a Senior Staff Engineer in the Engineering Excellence CoE, your role involves addressing complex, unresolved software engineering challenges at our company, Telstra. Your responsibilities span from conducting experiments and nurturing new technologies to demonstrating their effectiveness for production use, thereby driving innovation and technological advancement within the broader software engineering community at Telstra. You’re a hands-on staff engineer and will write production-grade software. Key Responsibilities As a Senior Staff Engineer, you apply your recognised very deep expertise and breadth of experience in the Software Engineering domain to: Consistently write production-ready code that accounts for edge cases and errors, which can be used as examples of best practice by other engineers by being easily testable and understood; actively model a bias towards self-documenting code. Influence organization-wide testing strategy and work with teams by using quality metrics to identify gaps and recommend solutions that are in accordance with accepted testing frameworks and the testing pyramid. Use systematic debugging to diagnose all issues within a set of related domains. Foster a culture of observability across several teams and help them use operational data to improve the stability and performance of their domains. Work across teams to foster an architecture that enables iterative, autonomous development and future scaling; provide guidance to multiple teams in anticipation of future use cases, helping them make design decisions that minimize the cost of future changes. Actively collaborate with the security team, to foster and model a security-first mindset and apply the organization's security strategy across multiple teams. Partner with product owners to build a culture of priority setting and urgency in alignment with organizational strategy by reviewing cross-team work and providing guidance to ensure its appropriately broken down, prioritised, and dependencies are well understood by all involved teams and stakeholders. Demonstrate and influence effective decision-making and responsible actions, without having the total picture to handle risk, change, and uncertainty across several teams during the routine business, as well as when in high-pressure situations. Build strong commercial capability across multiple teams by modeling well-developed commercial thinking, balancing cost and value to decide the most economic action that delivers good outcomes. Actively build a culture of knowledge sharing and documentation that is based on giving and receiving positive and constructive feedback; use this as a base for continuous learning and capability building. Significantly contribute to function and organisation strategy, practices, and planning by drawing on your expertise and thorough understanding of the work across multiple team domains. Use a digital product mindset to recognize product opportunities and differentiators in relation to the competition; help define and create new product abilities by changing technical strategy or constraints. Actively models Telstra’s values and facilitates inclusive discussions across multiple teams that create goal-driven alignment with organisational strategy and principles, as well as identifying actionable continuous improvement opportunities. Maintain a very high level of capability in software engineering, including new and emerging technologies, tools, approaches, and processes so that you can model continuous learning and actively provide coaching and mentoring of other software engineering team members. About You We're looking for someone who has… Proven years of hands-on experience in software development with a strong focus on cloud-native technologies, microservices architecture, and secure coding practices. In-depth experience in implementing DevOps practices to automate software delivery pipelines, infrastructure provisioning, and configuration management. Proficiency in multiple programming languages, such as Java, Python, Go, or Node.js with the ability to select the most appropriate language for specific project requirements. Experience in identifying and remediating security vulnerabilities throughout the software development lifecycle (with a thorough understanding of secure coding practices and principles) Demonstrated expertise in distributed systems, networking, software architecture, and software security concepts. Advanced knowledge with operations and automation practices If you are looking to take the next step in your career, we want to hear from you! ------------------------------------- We encourage applications from people of all abilities and backgrounds - including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the LGBQTI+ community, linguistically diverse, and people living with disability. When you apply, you can choose to note the pronouns you use and /or any reasonable adjustments needed to take part equitably during the interview process. www.telstra.com.au/careers/diversity-and-inclusion or email us at *****@******.telstra.com noting your preferred method of contact. 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. We are committed to making it easy for everyone to apply. If you require accessibility support or adjustments during the recruitment process, please send an email to Disability and Accessibility inbox. *****@******.telstra.com. In a business as big and diverse as ours, there’s a huge breadth of career paths available. Uncover opportunities, broaden your experience, and discover the many areas of our organization there is to explore. Explore our teams ********