Senior Staff Engineer

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Experian is building an enterprise-grade agentic AI platform from Hyderabad, seeking a builder-architect who can code hands-on while shaping architectural direction across teams.

You will design core platform capabilities for agentic AI systems, promote reuse of shared primitives, and collaborate with Cloud, Security, ITSM teams to integrate AI workflows into enterprise systems. This is an Individual contributor role, reporting to Director Engineering, based in Hyderabad.

Qualifications

• Must have extensive experience designing, building and operating cloud-native software systems in production.
• Experience with AI models or LLMs as core components and handling model interactions.
• Proficiency in Python (or Java/Scala) for backend services.

Responsibilities

• Design and build foundational platform capabilities for agentic AI systems, including orchestration and lifecycle management.
• Establish agent discovery, registration and reuse mechanisms as shared platform capabilities.
• Define durable architectural patterns and reference architectures for multi-agent coordination and autonomous workflows.
• Design secure-by-default architectures with governance, policy enforcement, and access control.
• Mentor engineers and influence technical direction through hands-on contribution and design leadership.

Skills

Cloud-native systems

LLMs/AI models

Python

AWS cloud

Platform architecture

Cross-team alignment

Agent frameworks

State management

Orchestration

Job description

Experian is a global data and technology company, powering opportunities for people and businesses around the world. We operate across a range of markets, from financial services to healthcare, automotive, agribusiness, insurance, and many more. Experian invests in people and new advanced technologies to unlock the power of data. We have an amazing team of 25,200 people in 32 countries.

Our uniqueness is that we celebrate yours. Experian's people first, inclusive and purpose driven culture is multi award-winning; World's Best Workplaces 2025 (Fortune Global Top 25), Great Place To Work in 26 countries to name a few.

Check out Experian Life on social or explore our Careers Site ( experian.com/careers ) to understand why.

Job Description

• We are building a shared Agentic AI Platform that enables teams across the enterprise to design, deploy, and operate AI-powered agents and workflows safely, consistently, and at scale.
• This role is for a builder-architect, someone with software and systems foundations who can operate hands-on while also shaping architectural direction across teams.
• You will design and build core agentic AI platform capabilities while actively ensuring teams adopt shared primitives rather than creating fragmented, one-off solutions.
• The role combines hands‑on engineering, Platform architecture, and cross‑enterprise influence, with a emphasis on reuse, cohesion, and long‑term sustainability.
• You will be #LI-hybrid based in Hyderabad and reporting to Director Engineering.
• This is Individual contributor role ( Non Managerial ).
• What you'll do here:
• Design and build foundational platform capabilities for agentic AI systems, including orchestration, lifecycle management, memory patterns, runtime policy and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Establish agent discovery, registration, and reuse mechanisms (e.g., registries, marketplaces, protocol integration) as shared platform capabilities.
• You will define and evolve durable architectural patterns, reference architectures, and golden paths for multi‑agent coordination, bounded autonomy, failure handling, and system evolution.
• Design secure‑by‑default architectures that embed governance, policy enforcement, auditability, and access control into agentic systems and AI workflows.
• You will build reusable AI workflow primitives that teams can adopt consistently across the enterprise.
• Partner with enterprise teams (e.g., Cloud, Security, ITSM etc.) to integrate AI workflows into existing enterprise systems and platforms.
• Maintain a bird's‑eye view of Agentic AI and AI Workflow initiatives across the enterprise, identifying the opportunities to reduce fragmentation and promote convergence.
• Mentor engineers and influence technical direction through hands‑on contribution, design leadership, and clear reasoning.

Qualifications

Must have skills:

• 8+ years of experience in designing, building, and operating cloud-native software systems in production environments, with depth in platform, infrastructure, or distributed systems.
• Expertise to tradeoffs across scalability, reliability, security, cost, and developer experience.
• Experience designing or operating systems that incorporate LLMs or AI models as core components, including managing model interaction, control flow, and failure modes.
• Proficiency in Python (and/or Java or Scala) for building backend services, frameworks, or SDKs.
• Experience with public cloud platforms (AWS preferred), including compute, networking, storage, and security primitives.
• Demonstrated experience owning and evolving shared platform architectures over time, including setting boundaries, managing tradeoffs, and adapting designs as scale and requirements change.
• Proven ability to drive architectural alignment across teams through technical influence, design reviews, reference architectures, and hands‑on collaboration rather than formal authority.
• Exposure to agent frameworks, multi‑agent systems, or AI orchestration tools.
• Experience designing systems with explicit state management, lifecycle control, and correctness guarantees across asynchronous and long‑running workflows.
• Experience working with orchestration systems,