Title:  Senior Software Engineer (Backend/Cloud)(DSC/SN)

ST Engineering is a global technology, defence and engineering group with offices across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the U.S., serving customers in more than 100 countries. The Group uses technology and innovation to solve real-world problems and improve lives through its diverse portfolio of businesses across the aerospace, smart city, defence and public security segments. Headquartered in Singapore, ST Engineering ranks among the largest companies listed on the Singapore Exchange.

Join our Cyber Team

We are an industry leader in cybersecurity with over two decades of experience, we deliver a holistic suite of trusted cybersecurity solutions to empower cyber resilience for government and ministries, critical infrastructure, and commercial enterprises. Backed by our indigenous capabilities and deep domain expertise, we offer robust cyber-secure products and services in cryptography, cybersecurity engineering, digital authentication, SCADA protection, audit and compliance. We specialise in the design and build of security operations centres for cybersecurity professionals and provide managed security services to strengthen the cybersecurity posture of our government and enterprise customers.

Responsibilities

• Design & Build: Develop backend services and microservices using event-driven patterns, workflow orchestration, and robust messaging integrations.
• Containerization & Orchestration: Package and deploy services using Docker; manage clusters via Kubernetes or Docker Swarm, ensuring scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Messaging & Streaming: Integrate and optimize RabbitMQ, Kafka, or Redis (Pub/Sub/Streams) for asynchronous communication, back‑pressure handling, and exactly/at‑least‑once delivery semantics.
• Architecture & Quality: Drive technical design reviews, establish coding standards, and enforce observability (metrics, logs, traces), fault tolerance, and security best practices.
• Performance & Reliability: Profile services, tune throughput/latency, implement circuit breakers, retries, dead‑letter queues, and idempotency strategies.
• CI/CD & DevOps Collaboration: Partner with DevOps to automate builds, tests, and deployments; maintain IaC-based environments and progressive delivery (blue/green, canary).
• Documentation & Knowledge Sharing: Produce clear design docs (sequence/state diagrams, data flow), operational runbooks, and mentor engineers through code reviews and pair programming.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Translate product requirements into technical solutions; proactively manage risks, dependencies, and incremental delivery plans.

Qualifications

• Experience: 5–8+ years in backend software engineering, with production experience in workflow engines, container orchestration, and message queues/streaming.
• Programming: Proficiency in one or more of: Java (Spring/Spring Boot), Go, C#/.NET, Node.js (TypeScript/JavaScript), or Python.
• Cloud & Platforms: Experience with at least one major cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) and Linux-based environments; familiarity with networking fundamentals for distributed systems.
• Systems Design: Strong grasp of microservices, event-driven architecture, domain-driven design (DDD) concepts, data consistency, and eventual consistency models.
• Communication: Clear, structured communicator with the ability to explain complex systems to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Technical Expertise

• Workflow Engines & Orchestration
• Containerization & Orchestrators:
• Docker (multi‑stage builds, image hygiene), Kubernetes (Deployments, StatefulSets, Services, Ingress, HPA, RBAC).
• Messaging & Streaming
• Event‑Driven Architecture
• Observability & Reliability
• Logging (ELK/EFK), metrics (Prometheus/Grafana), tracing (OpenTelemetry/Jaeger), health checks, readiness/liveness probes.
• Security & Compliance:
• Secrets management (KMS/HashiCorp Vault), OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, role-based access, least privilege, container image scanning.

Find out more:  https://www.stengg.com/cybersecurity

ST Engineering believes in fostering a culture where team members are encouraged to overcome challenges, explore new ideas, and work together to succeed. We value individuals who are determined to push beyond the boundaries, and have a thirst for knowledge, continuous learning, and self-improvement