Senior Software Development Engineer
Location: Bangalore, KA, IN
About the Role:
As a Senior Developer Workplace Engineer within the Developer Workplace team, you will be a key enabler in our vision to empower every developer at Swiss Re with a seamless, secure, and high-performance workplace. Your role is central to creating a
frictionless environment that fosters innovation, accelerates software delivery, and ensures compliance without sacrificing speed. By integrating automation, self-service solutions, and secure-by-design practices, you will help transform Swiss Re into a leading technology-driven reinsurer. Further you will partner with endpoint engineers, developer advocates, and IT Security to standardize developer workstations, automate onboarding and environment setup, and deliver self-service tools that allow engineers to provision their own dev/test environments and access the right packages and privileges from day one.
Developer Background:
Strong software development background with extensive experience in programming languages, preferably Java and .NET, along with scripting experience in Shell and PowerShell. Demonstrated ability to design and architect solutions with a
strong focus on security.
Developer Tooling Ecosystem Knowledge.
Deep understanding of the developer tooling ecosystem, including build tools, package managers, IDEs, and artifact repositories.
Hands-on experience with tools such as npm, pip, Maven, NuGet, Git, SDK installations, certificates, proxies, and container-based workflows.
Experience working in Linux-based environments.
Containerization Technology
Strong experience with container technologies, including building docker images, running containers, applying containerization best practices and exposure to container-based development is a plus.
DevSecOps
Proven experience working in a DevSecOps environment, integrating security practices into development and delivery pipelines.
Leadership & Stakeholder Management:
Demonstrate a strong passion for platform engineering and developer productivity, with the ability to shape long-term technical strategy and influence enterprise-wide engineering practices.
Proven ability to build trusted relationships across technical and techno-functional stakeholders, aligning diverse teams around a common vision and driving transformational change.
Ability to combine strategic thinking with excellent communication and leadership skills to balance technical excellence, business priorities, and organizational goals.
Nice to have:
Endpoint Management Tooling: Working knowledge or conceptual understanding of application packaging with Intune, chocolatey and app controls.
About Swiss Re
Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. We cover both Property & Casualty and Life & Health. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 15,000 employees across the world.
Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.
If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.
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