Backend - Staff Engineer – Platform (NELD & Ingestion)

Job Title: Staff Engineer – Platform (NELD & Ingestion) 

Location: Bangalore (Onsite) 
Experience: 6–9+ years of relevant backend / distributed systems engineering experience (with ~3–4 years at Senior or Staff level) 

 

About Netradyne 

Netradyne is transforming commercial fleet operations through advanced AI, computer vision, and edge computing. Our platform ingests high‑volume video, sensor, and telematics data from vehicles worldwide and turns it into actionable insights that improve driver safety, regulatory compliance, and operational efficiency.

We operate large‑scale, distributed systems that process billions of events per day with strict requirements on reliability, latency, data correctness, and cost efficiency. At Netradyne, you’ll work with a talented team of engineers, data scientists, and product leaders on problems that have a direct, real‑world impact on roads, fleets, and drivers.

As a Staff Engineer, you will be a deep domain owner for NELD (Native ELD) or Ingestion while closely collaborating with the adjacent domain. Your work will shape large‑scale systems relied on by fleets, drivers, and internal product ecosystems. 

 

Role Summary 

As a Staff Engineer – Platform, you provide strong technical leadership and hands‑on ownership of core backend services and pipelines. You will anchor one primary domain (NELD or Ingestion) and influence cross‑team architecture and execution. 

You are expected to: 

• Own key service architectures 

• Design scalable ingestion and compliance workflows 

• Ensure data quality, correctness, and reliability 

• Mentor engineers and drive high engineering standards 

 

Key Responsibilities 

Architecture & Technical Ownership 

• Own architecture, design, and evolution of platform services within NELD and/or Ingestion. 

• Drive system design for large cross‑service features from ingestion to downstream consumers. 

• Define and maintain clean service boundaries, APIs, and data contracts. 

Platform & Systems Development 

• Design scalable, high‑throughput ingestion pipelines for logs, telematics, and event data. 

• Build and optimize streaming and batch data workflows. 

• Translate HOS/ELD regulatory requirements into robust system behavior and guardrails. 

• Ensure correctness, ordering, idempotency, and fault tolerance across workflows. 

Reliability & Observability 

• Define and uphold SLOs for latency, availability, and data accuracy. 

• Champion best practices in logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting. 

• Design for backpressure handling, graceful degradation, and system recovery.