Software Dev Engineer III

About the role Swiggy’s Data Platform enables teams to move, process, and use data reliably at scale. As an SDE III, you will design and build foundational platform capabilities across data ingestion, distributed compute, storage, and serving. You will own problems end to end—from architecture and implementation through rollout, observability, and operations—and help raise the engineering bar for the team. This role is for an engineer who enjoys solving difficult systems problems: keeping data pipelines dependable as volumes and workloads grow, making platform behavior predictable for users, and improving performance and cost without compromising correctness or governance. What you’ll do Design, build, and operate scalable data-platform services and distributed systems used by product, analytics, and machine-learning teams. Develop reliable batch and streaming data processing and ingestion capabilities, with clear guarantees around correctness, recovery, and data freshness. Improve the performance, availability, and cost efficiency of data workloads through sound architecture, measurement, and iterative optimization. Build platform abstractions and self-service workflows that make common data tasks easier and safer for engineering and data users. Establish strong operational practices: observability, alerting, capacity planning, incident response, and durable root-cause fixes. Apply access control, data governance, and safe change-management practices to production systems and datasets. Lead technical design reviews, break down ambiguous problems, and make pragmatic decisions that balance speed, reliability, and maintainability. Partner with infrastructure, product, analytics, and machine-learning teams to understand needs and deliver platform capabilities with measurable outcomes. Mentor engineers through design and code reviews, and contribute to a culture of ownership and continuous improvement. What you’ll bring 8+ years of software engineering experience buildi