Engineering Manager

Sage; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 900,000 - 1,700,000; Full time

Job summary

Sage in Bengaluru is seeking a mid-to-senior software engineer to build and operate agent platforms and AI-driven tooling for production-scale systems. You will work on orchestration, tool registries, and sandboxed execution within a modern SDLC.

You’ll design context and memory management, develop agents for large codebases, and drive evaluation and observability to ensure high-quality AI tooling. Hybrid work model with 3 days in office in Bengaluru.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience (mid-level) or 6+ years (senior) with hands-on experience.
• Hands-on experience with LLM-powered or agent-based systems in production.
• Experience building and running production systems in the cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Containers, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code experience.
• Familiarity with distributed systems, queues, async workflows, and reliability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to explain trade-offs to diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate agent platforms: orchestration, tool and skill registries, plugin frameworks, and sandboxed execution.
• Develop coding agents and review agents that work on large codebases and integrate into SDLC.
• Design context and memory management: retrieval (RAG), summarization, and long-term memory.
• Build evaluation frameworks—offline benchmarks and online production signals.
• Create feedback loops: mine traces and improve prompts, tools, and evals.
• Develop internal SDKs to enable other teams to adopt the platform.
• Own observability for agent systems: tracing, cost, latency, and quality monitoring.
• Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to identify high-value workflows.

Skills

System design

API design

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

LLMs tooling

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

CI/CD

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.