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Important information
Contract type:
Permanent
Location:
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Work mode:
Hybrid
Published on:
16 October 2026
What they need
We're looking for someone with 6+ years of Software Engineering experience and hands-on experience building LLM-powered or agent-based systems in production.
Technical Skills
- Principal individual contributor
- Platform & API; core runtime; logic modernisation
- India-based role in a global distributed squad; planned overlap with Europe and North America and ownership of outcomes end to end.
- Solid software engineering fundamentals: system design, API design, data modelling, and clean, maintainable code.
- Experience building and running production systems in the cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including containers, Kubernetes or similar, and infrastructure as code.
- Hands-on experience with distributed systems: queues, async workflows, concurrency, reliability, and failure handling.
- Practical experience building with LLMs: tool use, agents, prompt and context engineering, RAG, and evaluation.
- Familiarity with agent protocols and ecosystems (e.g., MCP) and with using AI coding tools day to day.
Leadership & Ownership
- Comfort working independently and handling ambiguity: you can take a loosely defined problem, scope it, and drive it to production.
- Clear written and verbal communication, including explaining trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- At the senior level, we also expect you to lead projects and set technical direction, mentor other engineers, define evaluation and quality standards, and influence architecture across teams.
Mindset & Collaboration
- Growth mindset curious, always learning, and open to feedback.
- Works closely with the engineers who use these tools every day; you help the whole organization build software better and faster.
Nice to Have
- Experience with trace analysis or log mining to find and fix agent failure modes.
- Experience building internal platforms or SDKs that other teams adopted.
- Background in observability, CI/CD, or developer productivity tooling.
- Experience with model routing, cost optimization, or prompt caching.
- Open-source or public contributions in agent tooling or LLM infrastructure.
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