The Indian tech industry is undergoing a significant transformation. From Pune to Bengaluru, Hyderabad to NCR, hiring has become more focused and strategic — driven by ROI, efficiency, and long-term value. As companies reassess priorities, there’s a growing emphasis on adaptability, cross-functional collaboration, and the use of AI tools to streamline recruitment.
At Druva, we’re building cloud-native data security tools to protect and manage enterprise data at scale. From ransomware recovery to platform reliability, our engineers tackle complex, distributed challenges every day.
Naturally, we look for engineers with strong technical foundations. But what truly sets candidates apart today, especially those coming from adjacent domains like SaaS, fintech, cybersecurity, or developer tools, is their ability to align with business goals, think critically, and adapt to fast-evolving systems.
If you're exploring your next opportunity, here’s what Druva believes every engineer should know about succeeding in today’s tech hiring landscape.
1. We Hire Engineers to Solve, Not Just to Code
Every open role at Druva ties back to a business need, improving system performance, increasing customer reliability, ensuring compliance, or driving platform innovation. This applies whether you're working on cloud infrastructure, microservices, or UI optimisation.
🛠️ Advice for Candidates:
Customise your resume and cover letter for each role. Go beyond listing skills; show how your work solves real problems. If you’re from a different domain, connect the dots — demonstrate how your experience in, say, fintech latency tuning or healthtech APIstranslates into solving scale, reliability, or performance challenges in a new context.
Before:
“Developed scalable services for financial transactions”
After:
“Built and optimised stateless microservices for high-throughput transaction processing (20K+ RPS), improving SLA adherence by 35% through rate-limiting and async processing — experience transferable to large-scale event systems”
Practising this framework helps you share stories that resonate, especially with hiring managers who value impact and clarity.
2. While AI Enters the Fray — We Still Hire Thoughtfully
While some are beginning to leverage AI in recruiting, at Druva, decisions are made by seasoned hiring managers and engineers. What resonates the most with humans? A resume and interview that feel real, relevant, and well thought-out.
Advice for Candidates:
Use keywords from the job description, like Golang, Kubernetes, CI/CD, gRPC, S3, NoSQL, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, Terraform, Zero Trust, or RBAC, but don’t remove the personality.
Let your resume tell a story. If you’ve contributed to open-source, built internal devtools, introduced observability practices, or written RFCs, highlight that. Engineers who influence systems — not just write code — stand out in our process.
3. Strong Engineers Communicate Like Architects
At Druva, engineers own their code, but also participate in design discussions, review architectures, and contribute to platform-level thinking. That’s why communication, structured problem-solving, and technical articulation are key traits we evaluate during interviews.
Advice for Candidates:
Learn to present your ideas clearly using the STAR method — it helps us see how you think, not just what you did.
What is the STAR Method?
S — Situation: Set the stage. What was the context?
T — Task: What was your responsibility or challenge?
A — Action: What exactly did you do? Technologies used? Trade-offs made?
R — Result: What changed because of your actions? Metrics? Business impact?
Here’s an engineering example:
S: Legacy backup process was causing high CPU spikes during peak hours.
T: Tasked with redesigning the scheduling engine to improve resource efficiency.
A: Introduced a rate-limited, token-bucket model with Golang worker pools, integrating with Kafka for distributed queueing. Tuned batch sizes and load thresholds.
R: Achieved 60% reduction in peak CPU, improved concurrency management, and reduced recovery SLAs by 20%.
This level of detail helps interviewers understand your depth and decision-making ability, especially in system design or tech round interviews.
4. Curiosity Builds Credibility
Strong engineers aren’t just looking for a job, they’re evaluating the environment they’ll build in. The best candidates we speak to at Druva often ask us great questions, and we remember them.
Advice for Candidates:
Ask about tech culture, decision-making, and scale. Some examples:
“How does the team approach architectural reviews? Who’s involved and how often?”
“What’s the current observability stack, and what challenges do you face around tracing or log management?”
“How are production incidents handled, and what’s the feedback loop into development?”
Whether you’ve worked in security tools, adtech systems, gaming engines, or analytics platforms, questions like these show that you’re already thinking like a team contributor, not just an executor.
5. Adaptability to New Languages and Systems Matters More Than Ever
At Druva, we work with a diverse stack, Golang, Python, Java, Kafka, React, PostgreSQL, and more. We don’t expect candidates to know it all, but we value those who can learn fast and adapt across tools, languages, and domains.
Advice for Candidates:
Highlight where you've stepped out of your core expertise — that’s a strong signal of your versatility.
Example 1 – Language Shift:
“Transitioned from Java to Golang to build scalable services, improving performance by 30% using Go’s concurrency model.”
Example 2 – Domain Shift:
“As a frontend engineer, collaborated with SREs to optimize API performance, reducing page load time by 20%.”
Engineers who adapt quickly — whether it's to a new language or a new layer of the stack — tend to grow faster and make a deeper impact.
Takeaways
The hiring environment may be more selective today, but that creates space for stronger alignment between company goals and individual aspirations.
At Druva, we’re focused on building teams that solve real-world problems at scale. That’s why we look for engineers who bring a blend of technical depth, ownership mindset, and collaborative spirit.
If you are exploring your next move, focus on showcasing not just your skills but your impact, your approach to problem-solving, and your alignment with product and customer outcomes.
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