Saurabh Kumar

Software Development Engineer II at Amazon

Handle

@saurabh

Role

Software Development Engineer II

Company

Amazon

Location

Bengaluru

Languages

English,Hindi

Open to

contract backend work

About

I design and build highly available, scalable backend platforms and distributed systems. I work on metadata services, travel search platforms, CRM integrations, search systems, observability, and cloud infrastructure.

Experience

• Software Development Engineer II at Amazon
  Aug 2025 to now - Bengaluru, India
  Designed and built a highly available serverless Data Catalog platform for Amazon Ads’ largest data lake, managing metadata for 5K+ databases, 45K+ tables and 1.5B+ partitions while serving 60M+ metadata API requests per day with 99.999% availability. Architected metadata services using API Gateway, AWS Lambda, OpenSearch, AWS Glue, ECS and CloudWatch.
• Senior Software Engineer at TBO.com
  Aug 2024 to Jul 2025 - Gurugram, India
  Led the backend rewrite of the Affiliate service from .NET to Golang, designing a scalable multi-tenant travel search platform serving 40M+ hotel search requests per day. Integrated Aerospike and Redis caching, DynamoDB, Kafka, CloudWatch and Grafana while enabling zero-downtime migration.
• Software Engineer at Synaptic
  Nov 2022 to Jul 2024 - Bengaluru, India
  Designed and developed a generic CRM integration platform enabling bi-directional synchronization with Salesforce, Affinity, Attio and Copper. Developed People Screener, a high-performance Elasticsearch search platform supporting interactive search across more than 1B LinkedIn profiles.
• Software Engineer at ClearTax
  Jul 2021 to Nov 2022 - Bengaluru, India
  Developed backend services and REST APIs for tax and financial products serving large-scale enterprise and retail customers. Designed relational database schemas and optimized complex SQL queries while contributing to feature development, performance optimization and production support.
• Software Engineering Intern at GE Healthcare
  May 2020 to Jul 2020 - Bengaluru, India
  Developed a real-time performance monitoring dashboard leveraging descriptive analytics to collect, process and visualize operational metrics from enterprise data stores, helping identify architectural bottlenecks and improve system observability.

Education

• Indian Institute of T echnology (IIT), Guwahati
  Bachelor of Technology, Mathematics and Computing
  2017 to 2021
  CGPA: 8.3/10

Skills

• Java
• Golang
• AWS Lambda
• API Gateway
• AWS Glue
• OpenSearch
• Elasticsearch
• DynamoDB
• Redis
• Kafka
• Distributed Systems
• REST APIs

Links

• LinkedIn
• GitHub

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