# Staff Cloud Backend Engineer

At Sonatus, we’re driving the transformation to AI-enabled software-defined vehicles. Traditional automotive software methods can’t keep pace with consumer expectations shaped by the mobile industry-where features evolve rapidly, update seamlessly, and improve continuously. That’s why leading OEMs trust Sonatus to accelerate this shift. Our technology is already in production across more than 9 million vehicles on the road today and rapidly expanding. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, with 250+ employees worldwide, Sonatus combines the agility of a fast-growing company with the scale and impact of an established partner. Backed by strong funding and proven by global deployment, we’re solving some of the most interesting and complex challenges in the industry. Join us and help redefine what’s possible as we shape the future of mobility. We are seeking two experienced Staff Cloud Backend Engineers to join our cloud engineering team. As a Staff Engineer, you will be a key technical leader responsible for designing, building, and optimizing backend services that power our cloud-based applications for automotive cloud platforms. This role requires deep expertise in cloud-native architectu

- **Id**: 992967
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/sonatus-staff-cloud-backend-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Pune, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-17T04:44:45Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-17
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T19:19:25Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 51
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4714
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Edge AI, Automotive Software

## Company

- **Id**: 13046
- **Name**: Sonatus
- **Domain**: sonatus.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/sonatus>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 95
- **Open postings**: 21
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 86
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 33000
- **Max usd**: 82000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 26

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **GraphQL** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **RabbitMQ** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **Scala** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 51

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-17T05:20:17Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 80
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.884
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 51
- **Expected fill days**: 86
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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