Software Engineer

Job description:

The Emergency Preparedness & Response (EP&R) team builds the systems that keep critical operations running when it matters most. When storms and severe weather threaten communities and infrastructure across the US, our platform enables customers to rapidly procure, mobilize, and manage the workforce needed to respond to and recover from storm damage - often under tight timelines and high-stakes conditions.

We're hiring a Software Engineer in Bengaluru to build and run production services. You'll own features end to end - from understanding the problem to shipping, monitoring, and fixing what you built - with growing independence and support from senior engineers.

Our India engineering team is taking full ownership of core products and growing quickly, including a ground-up rebuild of a customer-critical service. You'll work closely with senior engineers, your Engineering Manager, Product, and Customer Support.

What you'll own in your first year:

• Own features and services end to end with speed and quality - build, test, release, monitor, fix.
• Start with clearly defined work and grow into breaking down ambiguous problems yourself.
• Write design notes for your features and get them reviewed; contribute to larger designs led by senior engineers.
• Write tests, add observability, and take part in on-call so issues are caught before customers see them.
• Understand who uses what you build, and learn from support issues what to fix next.
• Give and receive thoughtful reviews, and help onboard engineers who join after you.

What you must bring:

• Experience: 1-4 years building production software. We level on demonstrated scope, not years alone.
• You've shipped code that runs in production. Features or services you built, released, and supported - not only coursework or prototypes.
• You are strong at problem solving. You can take an unfamiliar, feature-sized problem, reason through it, and land on a simple, correct solution.
• You work independently toward a clear goal. Given a clear goal, you figure out the steps, unblock yourself, and ask for help at the right moments.
• We care how you engineer more than which language you did it in.

Technical background:

• You've built production software with a modern stack, such as:
• Cloud: hands-on with AWS - you've deployed and debugged services running on it.
• Languages: strong in at least one modern language such as Python, Java, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Frameworks: modern service frameworks such as FastAPI, Node.js, or equivalents.
• Databases: solid data modeling and query fundamentals - you can design a schema, use indexes well, and explain why a query is slow and how you'd fix it.
• Fundamentals: data structures, API design, and the basics of caching and concurrency.
• Exact tools matter less than depth. Strong experience on an equivalent stack is welcome.

What sets great candidates apart:

• Impact you can explain. You can say what changed because of something you built - for users, performance, or reliability.
• One problem you went deep on. A bug, a performance issue, or a design where you dug past the surface to understand why.
• Ownership beyond the ticket. You've fixed what you shipped when it broke, and improved it after release without being asked.
• Framework mindset: You notice repeated code and turn it into something reusable.
• Learning speed. You've picked up a new domain, codebase, or technology quickly and delivered in it.
• Curiosity about the user. You've asked why a requirement exists, or suggested a simpler way to solve the user's problem.

What we look for in everyone we hire:

• Customer obsession. You care who uses what you build and whether it actually helped them.
• Impact over activity. You measure success by outcomes, not tickets closed or lines written.
• Honesty. You're specific about your own part in team work, raise problems early, and say what didn't work.
• Independence. You don't wait to be told every next step. You figure things out with little hand-holding. You will work with leaders who will partner with you in the journey.
• Passion. Not the word on a resume - the evidence: a side project, a technology you went deep on, something you built because you wanted to.
• Depth. At least one thing you've built or debugged that you can explain down to the internals and the tradeoffs.

Itron is committed to building an inclusive and diverse workforce and providing an authentic workplace experience for all employees. If you are excited about this role but your past experiences don't perfectly align with every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyway. In the end, you may be just who we are looking for!