Staff Software Engineer

Who We Are

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.

Focus of the Role

As a Staff Engineer you model the highest standards of software engineering practice in the work you do. Acting with a sense of urgency, whilst remaining flexible you put customer needs first. You actively use your breadth and depth of expertise to build capability and raise work standards in the teams you are working in.

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

• Mentor and uplift technical capability within the chapter by guiding teams in software engineering practices, emerging technologies, tools, and agile processes.
• Shape and evolve technical architecture by contributing to mid- and long-term technology roadmaps across domains.
• Own engineering operations for services deployed by DevOps teams, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance in production.
• Foster scalable architecture across teams, enabling iterative and autonomous development while minimizing future change costs.
• Model commercial thinking, balancing cost and value to guide teams toward economically sound decisions that deliver strong outcomes.
• Promote observability, helping teams leverage operational data to enhance system stability and performance.
• Champion a security-first mindset, collaborating with security teams to embed organizational security strategies and continuously improve practices.
• Lead through uncertainty, making responsible decisions and guiding teams during routine operations and high-pressure situations.
• Cultivate a culture of knowledge sharing, encouraging documentation, feedback, and continuous learning across teams.
• Influence organizational strategy, drawing on deep domain expertise to contribute to planning, practices, and cross-team alignment.
• Model Telstra’s values, facilitating inclusive discussions that align teams with strategic goals and drive continuous improvement.
• Support recruitment efforts, helping build high-performing teams through hiring and onboarding of permanent and partner resources.
• Uphold respectful workplace standards, ensuring all colleagues are treated fairly and free from discrimination, harassment, or victimization.

We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We don't expect you to know them all but there are some must-haves tech skills which are required to do the job and some good-to-have which will set you up for success in this team.

About You

Essential Skills

• Strong background in Java, Python, Node.js, and related frameworks; advocate of clean code practices.
• Proven experience in software product architecture, development, testing, and production support.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing secure, scalable, fault-tolerant systems in AWS.
• Deep understanding of microservices architecture and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, or similar).
• Experience in operational decision-making and managing production incidents effectively.
• Solid understanding of authentication, authorization, and zero-trust security principles.
• Proficiency in both SQL and NoSQL database technologies.
• Strong experience in CI/CD, source control, and pipelines as code to accelerate delivery while maintaining quality.
• Clear understanding of version control systems and branching strategies, including their trade-offs and benefits.

Desirable (Growth Areas)

• Experience with one or more COTS/SaaS products such as SAP, Oracle EPM, Workday, or UKG.
• Familiarity with API gateway technologies like APIGEE, Nginx, or similar.
• Exposure to tools such as New Relic, Splunk, Datadog, or ELK stack.
• Experience using JMeter or similar tools for performance and load testing.
• Proficiency in Linux environments and command-line operations.
• Exposure to AI/ML frameworks, tools, or use cases in software engineering.

We're amongst the top 2% of companies globally in the CDP Global Climate Change Index 2023, being awarded an 'A' rating. If you want to work for a company that cares about sustainability, we want to hear from you.

As part of your application with Telstra, you may receive communications from us on +61 440 135 548 (for job applications in Australia) and +1 (623) 400-7726 (for job applications in the Philippines and India).

When you join our team, you become part of a welcoming and inclusive community where everyone is respected, valued and celebrated. We actively seek individuals from various backgrounds, ethnicities, genders and disabilities because we know that diversity not only strengthens our team but also enriches our work. We have zero tolerance for harassment of any kind, and we prioritise creating a workplace culture where everyone is safe and can thrive.

As part of the hiring process, all identified candidates will undergo a background check, and the results will play a role in the final decision regarding your application.

We work flexibly at Telstra. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you. When you apply, you can share your pronouns and / or any reasonable adjustments needed to take part equitably during the recruitment process.

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