Software Engineer (Backend Engineer)

About the role

We are Omnissa!

The world is evolving fast, and organizations everywhere—from corporations to schools—are under immense pressure to provide flexible, work-from-anywhere solutions. They need IT infrastructure that empowers employees and customers to access applications from any device, on any cloud, all while maintaining top-tier security. That’s where Omnissa comes in.

The Omnissa Platform is the first AI-driven digital work platform that enables smart, seamless and secure work experiences from anywhere. It uniquely integrates multiple industry-leading solutions including Unified Endpoint Management, Virtual Apps and Desktops, Digital Employee Experience, and Security & Compliance through common data, identity, administration, and automation services. Built on the vision of autonomous workspaces - self configuring, self-healing, and self-securing - Omnissa continuously adapts to the way people work; delivering personalized and engaging employee experiences, while optimizing security, IT operations and costs. we're experiencing rapid growth—and this is just the beginning of our journey!

At Omnissa, we’re driven by a shared mission to maximize value for our customers. Our five Core Values guide us: Act in Alignment, Build Trust, Foster Inclusiveness, Drive Efficiency, and Maximize Customer Value—all with the aim of achieving shared success for our clients and our team. As a global private company with over 4,000 employees, we’re always looking for passionate, talented individuals to join us. If you're ready to make an impact and help shape the future of work, we’d love to hear from you!

What is the opportunity?

As a Member of Technical Staff, you will be responsible for

• Design, build and maintain reliable, reusable, testable code that expands our platform’s core services and capabilities, while also enhancing their scalability and resilience.
• Identify and troubleshoot performance and code quality issues.
• you will take ownership of engineering initiatives and promote a culture of high ownership, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.
• Active engagement with different stake holders - Product Managers, Solution Architects, Security Engineering, other members within Engineering and External Partners as needed to define and deliver the required solution.
• We operate with Dev own quality mindset, which will require your active participation in all stages of software development - requirement, design, coding, test automation and debugging.
• Perform code reviews and ensure coding best practices.

What will you bring to Omnissa?

You are expected to have strong experience in the following

• Deep hands-on experience with Kafka, including topic design, partitions, replication, retention, and consumer group behavior.
• Experience operating Kafka in production, including performance tuning, monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident response.
• High proficiency and experience in Unix/Linux platforms.
• Strong working experience with Python, Docker and Terraform/IAC.
• Good understanding of and experience in software architecture and high-performance, scalable distributed systems.
• Solid grasp of application architecture, networking, security, reliability, and scalability concepts.
• Strong DevOps experience, including building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaboration skills for working with distributed teams (Omnissa has teams globally).
• 2-10 years of experience in software engineering.

Additionally, the following skills and qualifications will help you stand-out:

• Experience with managed Kafka services (e.g., AWS MSK).
• Familiarity with streaming or event‑driven architectures beyond basic pub/sub.
• Exposure to Kafka security (TLS, SASL, ACLs, IAM-based auth), schema management, or Kafka Connect
• Comprehensive knowledge and work experience with any or all of the following technologies: Redis, PostgreSQL, and OpenSearch.
• Strong foundation in Linux file systems, memory, and multi-threading.
• Experience maintaining a large number of production deployments.
• Hands-on experience with AWS Cloud solutions and managed cloud services like MSK and Aurora, OpenSearch.
• Working knowledge of infrastructure technologies such as OS (Linux and Windows), Network, Database, Server, Storage, etc.