Software Development Engineer 3, Samvaad

Sarvam; Bengaluru; Presencial; INR 1.500.000 - 2.100.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Sarvam is building India’s sovereign AI platform. We seek a Backend Engineer to design and implement server-side logic, APIs, and orchestration powering AI conversations for millions of Indians.

You’ll work on scalable services, databases, and modern tooling, collaborating with model teams, frontend, and DevOps to ship reliable software with strong security practices.

Formación

• 5-8 years of backend development experience in distributed systems and container orchestration.
• Proficiency in Python and Go with hands-on cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Strong SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and NoSQL (Cassandra/ScyllaDB) knowledge.
• Experience with Kafka or RabbitMQ and building scalable APIs.

Responsabilidades

• Build and maintain scalable backend services and APIs (REST/gRPC).
• Design schemas, optimize queries, and manage unstructured data.
• Ensure observability with metrics, logs, traces and backward compatibility.
• Contribute to architecture discussions and resolve latency bottlenecks.
• Enforce coding standards, mentor peers, and stay current with backend tech and Generative AI.
• Collaborate across teams to productionize models and ensure smooth deployments.

Conocimientos

Python

Go

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

MySQL

NoSQL

Kafka

REST APIs

WebSocket

gRPC

OpenTelemetry

Herramientas

AWS

GCP

Azure

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

CI/CD

Descripción del empleo

About Sarvam

Sarvam is building the bedrock of Sovereign AI for India. The company is developing India's full-stack sovereign AI platform, building across research, models, infrastructure and applications with a singular focus on making AI genuinely work for India. Sarvam works with leading enterprises and public institutions and is backed by Lightspeed, Peak XV, and Khosla Ventures. Sarvam partners with India's leading brands, including Tata Capital, SBI Life, CRED, IDFC, and LIC.

About the Role

We are looking for a skilled Backend Engineer to join our Conversational Agents team, building Samvaad — our voice and AI-driven dialogue platform. A day at Samvaad means tackling hard problems, fast feedback, and real impact, all while working with a team that loves tinkering and shipping. You'll design and develop the server-side logic, APIs, and platform orchestration that powers AI conversations for millions of Indians.

What You'll Do

• Build and maintain backend services — scalable APIs (REST/gRPC), fault-tolerant systems, and clean, testable code.
• Design schemas, tune queries (Postgres/NoSQL), manage unstructured data, and apply caching and indexing strategies for performance.
• Deliver reliable releases with full observability — metrics, logs, traces — and ensure backward compatibility.
• Contribute to architecture discussions, resolve scaling and latency bottlenecks, and drive improvements in performance and reliability.
• Champion best practices — enforce coding standards, mentor peers, and stay current with backend and Generative AI technologies.
• Build enterprise-grade software with strong security practices in adherence to privacy and compliance policies.
• Collaborate across teams — integrate models into production, define data contracts with frontend and product, and partner with DevOps for smooth deployments.

What We're Looking For

• 5-8 years of backend development experience, with exposure to distributed systems and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Demonstrated expertise in Python and Go & Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Strong knowledge of SQL (Postgres/MySQL) and NoSQL (Cassandra/ScyllaDB), including schema design, query optimisation, and scaling.
• Experience with message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ) or streaming systems.
• Proficiency in algorithms, data structures, and asynchronous programming patterns.
• Experience building and scaling WebSocket/gRPC/WebRTC/REST APIs.
• Familiarity with logging, monitoring, and tracing tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry).
• Strong debugging skills with a focus on performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Proven ability to own features end-to-end, review code, and drive process or architecture improvements.

Bonus Points

• End-to-end ownership of the full stack, including frontend technologies such as React, TypeScript, and Next.js.
• Experience setting up CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment.
• Contributions to open-source projects or a strong GitHub portfolio showcasing backend work.

Why Sarvam?

Sarvam is a fast-moving, high talent-density team building full-stack AI for India, working on problems that push the frontiers of AI with real population-scale impact.

• Work alongside researchers, engineers, builders, and business leaders who move fast and hold each other to a very high bar
• High ownership and high impact, from day one
• Everything we do is AI-first, from the way we build and ship to the way we think about problems
• You can work on problems that could change how an entire country learns, works, and communicates

If you want to work on problems at the frontier of AI in India, Sarvam is the place to be.