Engineering Director

Sage; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,500,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Job summary

Sage in Bengaluru is hiring a software engineer with 3+ years (mid) or 6+ years (senior) to build LLM-powered and agent-based systems in production. You will design scalable cloud architectures, containerized services, and integrations with AI tooling, focusing on reliability, speed, and observability.

You’ll lead initiatives, mentor peers, and collaborate across teams to ship high-impact features. The role requires strong fundamentals in system design, API design, data modelling, and practical

Qualifications

• Proven experience building production-grade LLM-powered or agent-based systems.
• Strong fundamentals in system design, API design, and data modelling.
• Experience leading projects and mentoring engineers is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate agent platforms including orchestration, tool registries, plugin frameworks, and sandboxed execution.
• Develop coding agents and review agents integrated into SDLC (IDE, CI/CD, code review).
• Design context/memory management (RAG, summarization, session state).
• Create evaluation frameworks and production-quality monitoring for agents.
• Develop internal SDKs and developer tooling to enable cross-team adoption.

Skills

LLM-based systems

System design

APIs and data modelling

Mentoring/leadership

Technical communication

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GCP/Azure

Terraform

Job description

Location: Bengaluru (Hybrid – 3 days a week in office)

About Us

Sage is a global leader in accounting and business management software, trusted by millions of businesses worldwide. Together with our Bengaluru engineering team, we are building finance, accounting, payroll and expense management solutions that simplifies how businesses track and reconcile spending.

Thousands of finance teams globally use our product to streamline expense management, integrate seamlessly with leading accounting platforms, and are recognized for its clean design, usability, and speed.

We're investing heavily in AI — building the platform that lets AI agents and assistants do real engineering work, reliably and at scale. This team designs and runs the infrastructure behind our coding agents, review agents, and internal AI assistants: the orchestration, context and memory systems, evaluation frameworks, and feedback loops that make them better over time.

What We're Looking For

We're looking for someone with 3+ years of software engineering experience (mid-level) or 6+ years (senior), with hands-on experience building LLM-powered or agent-based systems in production.

Technical Skills

• 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.
• 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.

What to Expect

• We value humility and collaboration — we're looking for people who can work as part of a team, not in silos.
• We expect engineers to take ownership beyond just writing code — including tests, documentation, and long-term system quality.

Key Responsibilities

The Impact You'll Make

• Build and operate agent platforms: orchestration, tool and skill registries, plugin frameworks, and sandboxed execution.
• Develop coding agents and review agents that work well on real, large codebases, and integrate them into the existing SDLC (IDE, CI/CD, code review, issue tracking).
• Design context and memory management: retrieval (RAG), summarization and compression, session state, long-term memory, and repository-aware context.
• Build evaluation frameworks — both offline (benchmarks, regression suites) and online (production quality signals) — so we can measure whether agents are improving.
• Create feedback loops: capture and mine traces, find failure patterns, and turn them into better prompts, tools, skills, and evals.
• Build developer tooling and internal SDKs that make it easy for other teams to build on and adopt the platform.
• Own observability for agent systems: tracing, cost and latency tracking, and quality monitoring.
• Work with engineers and stakeholders to identify high-value workflows, ship quickly, and iterate on real usage data.