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# Senior Software Engineer (Dapr OSS) – India Lead at Diagrid

- **Company:** Diagrid
- **Location:** India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-30
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/diagrid/ac563b95-4910-4124-9441-ef0f8cf3d2c5

## Job description

Who We Are: We believe that open-source software, open standards and APIs are the greatest transformational tools for organizations in the modern software development era.

Our mission at Diagrid is to provide developers with APIs and tools that help them focus on their code and not on infrastructure. As online digital services need to handle more load and run on multiple clouds or on-premises environments, programming to higher level abstractions delivers consistent, secure and reliable code that is easily portable and helps organizations de-risk their projects.

Diagrid is founded by the creators of the [Dapr](https://dapr.io/) and[KEDA](https://keda.sh/) open-source projects, and who led the user experience, design and development of hyper-scale infrastructure cloud services, serverless platforms and open-source projects at Microsoft. Dapr has now achieved graduated status within the CNCF, joining renowned projects like Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Istio.

We are backed by top VC firms and supported with industry leading investors and advisors including Joe Beda (Kubernetes Co-Founder, former Co-Founder / CTO at Heptio) Matt Klein (Creator of Envoy, Lyft), Mark Russinovich (CTO, Microsoft Azure), William Morgan (Creator of Linkerd, CEO Buoyant), Seth Vargo (Senior Staff Engineer, Google), Adam Gross (Former CEO, Heroku), Sri Viswanath (Former CTO, Atlassian), Adam Frankl (Dev Marketing Expert, Neo4J & JFrog), and Roopak Venkatakrishnan (Head of platforms, Bolt).

## About Dapr

[Dapr](https://dapr.io/) (Distributed Application Runtime) is a graduated CNCF project that helps developers build distributed, cloud-native applications. It gives them APIs for the hard parts: durable workflows, actors, service invocation, state, pub/sub, scheduled jobs and secure service-to-service communication. Dapr runs in production at companies such as Zeiss, IBM, NASA, Bosch and Lufthansa.

## About the role

You join Diagrid's Runtime team, the engineers who build Dapr and run it inside Diagrid Catalyst. Your work lands in public, in the Dapr open source project, and in the product our customers run in production. You will design and ship features in the Dapr runtime, review code from the community and from your team, and help keep releases stable. Much of the current work is in durable execution (Dapr Workflows, actors and the scheduler), where correctness under failure matters more than speed. We build with AI every day. We look for engineers who use AI to go further and who check what it produces: you read the diff, you test the failure path, and you own the result, whoever or whatever wrote the first draft. In an open source project, reviewing and verifying code matters as much as writing it. You are a full member of the team: the same ownership, the same voice in design, and the same chance to grow into a Dapr maintainer as everyone else.

Working hours Diagrid's team works across Europe and North America. Our India team’s day typically starts around 12:00 PM IST, with afternoons overlapping Europe and evenings overlapping the US. You’ll need to be available for a core US overlap window of 8:30 PM to 12:00 AM IST; outside that, you can structure your day flexibly.

## What you will do

- Design and build features in the Dapr runtime, from proposal to release.
- Review pull requests from the community and from your team. Hold the bar on correctness, tests and API design.
- Find and fix bugs in distributed code: race conditions, retries, partial failures, and state that must survive a crash.
- Write proposals and design docs in public, and respond to review on them.
- Take part in Dapr releases: release candidates, patch releases and security fixes.
- Help users and contributors on GitHub and Discord, and mentor new contributors.

## What we look for

- 5+ years of professional Go, with production code you can explain line by line.
- Experience designing and running distributed systems. You know how they fail, and you design for it.
- 2+ years with Kubernetes and containers.
- A strong computer science base: concurrency, networking and data consistency.
- Daily, practical use of AI coding tools, and the judgment to check their output before you ship it.
- Clear written English. Most of our work happens in GitHub issues, pull requests and design docs, read by people across many companies and time zones.

Leading in India You’ll be our first engineer in India, and you’ll help build the team that follows. Engineers who join in India will report to technical managers on their own teams, with a dotted line to you. Their managers own their day-to-day work and performance; you’re their local lead and point of contact.

- Help hire the India team: shape the hiring process, interview candidates and help us find the right people.
- Onboard new engineers and help them become productive in Dapr, our codebase and how we work.
- Be the go-to person in India for questions, feedback and support, and raise issues to their managers when needed.
- Build a strong engineering culture in India that matches how we work across Diagrid: ownership, quality and working in the open.
- Work with leadership on India-specific topics such as hiring plans, working hours and team setup.
- Represent Diagrid in the local engineering and open source community, through meetups, conferences and contributor outreach.

This role stays hands-on. Most of your time goes to engineering work on the runtime, and the leadership side grows as the team does.

Bonus

- Merged contributions to open source Go projects, especially CNCF projects.
- Experience as a maintainer of an open source project.
- Experience with Dapr, or with workflow and durable execution engines (Temporal, Azure Durable Functions, AWS Step Functions).
- gRPC and Protocol Buffers.
- One of the other languages Dapr has SDKs for: Java, Python, JavaScript, .NET or Rust.

#LI-Remote Diagrid Benefits:

- Competitive compensation
- Company equity
- Remote first & flexible work environment
- Flexible paid time off
- Comprehensive healthcare for you and your dependents
- Choice of hardware
- $1000 for home office setup
- Monthly WFH stipend
- Team events & gatherings
- Chance to collaborate with industry-leading figures

Diagrid, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.

## About Diagrid

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Diagrid provides an execution layer for production AI, specializing in durable execution and zero-trust governance for autonomous agents and workflows, built on open-source standards (Dapr and KEDA).
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Seattle, Washington, United States (also listed as Federal Way, WA)
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Mark Fussell (CEO), Yaron Schneider (CTO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Software Development, Cloud Computing, AI Infrastructure
- Target customers: B2B, Enterprise, specifically regulated industries (government, defense, financial services) and any organization running mission-critical, event-driven applications or AI agents.
- Mission or purpose statement: To deliver the world's most reliable and secure platform for mission-critical workflows and autonomous AI agents.

## Products & Services
- **Diagrid Catalyst**: An agentic AI orchestration platform designed for Kubernetes. It adds resilient, self-recovering execution, zero-trust security, and cryptographic identity to any AI agent framework and MCP server. Key features include durable execution (automatic crash recovery, exactly-once steps), verifiable execution (cryptographic audit logs, tamper-evident records), and zero-trust access control.
- **Conductor (by Diagrid)**: A free tool for developers that simplifies running Dapr (Distributed Application Runtime) in production, providing management, monitoring, and operational capabilities for microservices.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $24.2M. Annual Revenue estimated at $650K.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Norwest Venture Partners (led Series A), Amplify Partners (led Seed), Seth Vargo. Customers include Ignition Group and IBM.
- **Growth Signals**: Active hiring with 6 open positions. Headcount of 26 employees distributed globally across 7 countries. Recent product launch of "Diagrid Catalyst" pivoting the company into the AI agent orchestration space. Achieved SOC 2 Type 2 Attestation in 2024. Listed in AWS Marketplace.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founding Team & Open Source Cred**: Built by the creators of Dapr and KEDA, two graduated CNCF projects with massive enterprise adoption. This gives them deep technical authority and a built-in community.
- **Unique Product Offering**: Combines durable execution with cryptographic verification and zero-trust governance in a single platform, specifically targeting the "AI agent" market. This is a differentiated approach compared to standard workflow engines or observability tools.
- **Lock-in Free & Multi-Cloud**: Built on open-source software, allowing customers to run on any cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) or on-premise, including air-gapped environments for the most regulated sectors.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI Agent Orchestration**: The company has pivoted its core messaging and product (Catalyst) to focus squarely on the reliability and governance of autonomous AI agents and MCP servers.
- **Regulated Enterprise**: Targeting government, defense, and financial services with features like air-gapped deployment, cryptographic audit trails, and zero-trust access.
- **Open Source Leadership**: Continuing to invest in and build upon the Dapr and KEDA ecosystems to drive adoption and community trust.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-First Culture**: The company is globally distributed (employees in the US, Spain, Portugal, Canada, UK, Greece, Netherlands) and fully remote. "Remote isn't a policy, it's how we're built."
- **Competitive Compensation & Equity**: Offers market-benchmarked salaries and equity so that employees share in the company's success.
- **Comprehensive Benefits**: Includes health, dental, and vision coverage, a home office stipend (WFH stipend), and flexible time off.
- **Engineering Culture**: Values include "cherish integrity," "be courageous," "stay humble," and "be collaborative." The team is heavily technical (37% in technical roles) and includes alumni from Microsoft, Red Hat, VMware, and Cloudflare. The work is deeply technical, involving open source, Kubernetes, and cutting-edge AI infrastructure.
- **Team Gatherings**: Despite being remote, the company organizes regular virtual and in-person team events to foster connection.

## Sources
1. [diagrid.io](https://www.diagrid.io/)
2. [diagrid.io/careers](https://www.diagrid.io/careers)
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/diagrid-inc)
4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/diagrid)
5. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/diagrid)

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