Senior Software Engineer – Infrastructure Services

Location: Hyderabad, India; India
Department: Engineering

About Truveta 

Truveta is the world’s first health provider-led data platform with a vision of Saving Lives with Data. Our mission is to enable researchers to find cures faster, empower every clinician to be an expert, and help families make the most informed decisions about their care. Achieving Truveta’s ambitious vision requires an incredible team of talented and inspired people with a unique combination of health, software, cloud infrastructure, and big data experience who share our company values. 

This position is based out of Hyderabad, India. 

Who We Need 

• Truveta is rapidly building a talented and diverse engineering team to solve complex healthcare and technology challenges. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with deep experience developing, maintaining, and operating cloud-native infrastructure services. This role is ideal for an experienced infrastructure-focused engineer who is proficient with open-source platform technologies such as Kubernetes, Conductor, Istio, Kong, and related cloud-native tools. You will help design, build, and operate the infrastructure services that power Truveta’s healthcare data platform on Microsoft Azure. 
• As a senior engineer, you will help shape technical direction, drive engineering and operational best practices, mentor other engineers, and improve the reliability, scalability, security, and maintainability of Truveta’s infrastructure services. 

This Opportunity 

Join the founding team of the Truveta India Development Center (IDC) and play a pivotal role in shaping its future. As one of the initial members, you'll help build and scale a high-impact organization while contributing to products and platforms that advance healthcare through data and AI. This is a unique opportunity to influence both the technical direction and the culture of a growing global engineering hub.

• Patients, doctors, and medical researchers deserve the same cutting-edge technological innovations that have transformed other industries. We are looking for passionate senior software engineers who are excited to apply infrastructure engineering expertise to help revolutionize healthcare. 
• In this role, you will lead the design, development, deployment, and operation of cloud-native infrastructure services that support Truveta’s platform. You will work across container orchestration, service mesh, API gateway infrastructure, workflow orchestration, platform automation, observability, reliability, and security in Azure-based environments. 
• This opportunity requires strong software engineering fundamentals, hands-on infrastructure expertise, technical leadership, creative problem solving, and proficiency with modern open-source cloud-native technologies. 

What You’ll Do 

• Lead the design, development, maintenance, and operation of cloud-native infrastructure services for Truveta’s healthcare data platform. 
• Build and operate Kubernetes-based infrastructure that supports scalable, secure, and reliable production workloads. 
• Develop platform capabilities using open-source technologies such as Kubernetes, Conductor, Istio, Kong, and related cloud-native tools. 
• Design and operate infrastructure services on Microsoft Azure. 
• Drive automation, tooling, and operational improvements that increase engineering velocity and platform reliability. 
• Improve observability through structured logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, alerting, and service health monitoring. 
• Lead troubleshooting, incident response, root-cause analysis, and production issue resolution for infrastructure services. 
• Partner with product engineers, security teams, architects, and engineering leaders to deliver reliable platform capabilities. 
• Make sound technical decisions that balance scalability, performance, security, reliability, maintainability, and delivery speed. 
• Write clean, maintainable code and configuration for infrastructure services, automation, and platform tooling. 
• Establish and improve operational practices, deployment guidance, runbooks, and engineering standards. 
• Mentor engineers, provide technical guidance, and help build team expertise in Azure and open-source infrastructure technologies. 
• Evaluate and adopt open-source technologies where they improve Truveta’s platform capabilities. 

Key Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. 
• 7+ years of professional software engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, or cloud engineering experience. 
• Significant experience developing, maintaining, and operating production infrastructure or platform services. 
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native infrastructure. 
• Experience with open-source infrastructure technologies such as service mesh, API gateways, workflow orchestration, or container orchestration platforms. 
• Experience managing infrastructure and platform services on Microsoft Azure. 
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, automation, infrastructure as code, GitOps, monitoring, and operational best practices. 
• Solid understanding of networking, security, identity, access control, and distributed systems concepts. 
• Experience troubleshooting complex production issues across infrastructure, services, networking, data stores, and distributed systems. 
• Ability to lead technical discussions, influence infrastructure design decisions, and mentor other engineers. 
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to deliver reliable infrastructure in a fast-moving engineering environment. 
• Effective communication and collaboration skills. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Deep hands-on experience with Azure infrastructure and Azure services. 
• Proficiency with Kubernetes, Istio, Kong, Conductor, or similar open-source platform technologies. 
• Experience developing automation or tooling using C#, .NET, Go, Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar languages. 
• Experience with infrastructure as code, deployment automation, GitOps, and CI/CD systems. 
• Experience with observability tools and practices, including logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and service health monitoring. 
• Experience operating high-scale production infrastructure and participating in on-call support. 
• Experience contributing to open-source projects or committing to open-source repositories. 
• Experience with large-scale data platforms, distributed systems, analytics platforms, healthcare platforms, or regulated environments. 
• Interest in building reliable infrastructure that improves healthcare outcomes and helps save lives with data.