# Software Engineer - Backend Engineer (India) at Alkira

- Company: Alkira
- What the company does: Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia and GV.
- Company website: https://www.alkira.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Remote (US)
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-07-27
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://alkira.bamboohr.com/careers/245
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/alkira-software-engineer-backend-engineer-india/

## About the role

Alkira is reinventing networking for the AI era. We're looking for a Software Engineer - Backend Engineer who wants to own products from blank page to production — and operate what you ship. You'll build net-new capabilities and maintain the distributed systems behind Alkira's CSX (Cloud Services Exchange). Ownership here means both shipping the 0→1 and maintaining them. To learn more about our product and who we are, we invite you to take a look at a quick demonstration or visit our website.

## What they're looking for

- Take product ideas from 0 to 1: scope, design, build, ship, and own them in production
- Build and maintain large-scale distributed systems for multi-cloud networking — resiliency, scale, and correctness under real customer load
- Use AI as a core part of how you ship and operate: agentic workflows, LLM-powered dev loops, and AI tooling to move 5–10x faster than a traditional engineer. We expect you to leverage AI, not just tolerate it
- Design, build, and maintain APIs and microservices (Java/Spring and Go, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes) — treating the stack as a means to ship and sustain product, not the job itself
- Operate what you build: customer escalations, on-call, telemetry, and bug fixes are part of ownership, not a separate team's problem. You'll also pick up and maintain existing services in your area
- B.S./M.S. (or equivalent) in CS, EE, or a related field, plus 2 years of software engineering experience

Tags: Engineering - R&D