Senior Backend AI Engineer - GenAI Platform & Kubernetes

HCLSoftware; Roma; Ibrido; EUR 70.000 - 110.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

HCLSoftware in Rome, Italy, seeks a Senior AI Engineer / Backend Developer to own the backend architecture of our agent execution platform. You will design runtime services, APIs, and a secure sandboxed environment to run autonomous agents with policy enforcement and observability.

The role requires 5+ years in backend development, expert Python, and hands‑on experience with GenAI integration, Kubernetes, and secure API design. Hybrid work in Rome is offered.

Competenze

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• Backend development: 5+ years building and operating production backend services — REST/gRPC APIs, asynchronous processing, message queues, relational and NoSQL data stores
• Programming: Python (expert level); solid grounding in software design patterns, concurrency, and performance
• Agentic AI / GenAI integration: hands‑on experience building LLM‑powered services and agents — tool/function calling, orchestration (LangChain, LangGraph), RAG — and integrating commercial and open‑weight LLM APIs
• Security engineering: authentication/authorization, secrets management, sandboxing/isolation, audit logging, secure API design
• Scripting & OS: Bash shell scripting on Linux/Unix

Mansioni

• Design and build the backend of the agent execution platform: agent runtime and lifecycle services, tool/function‑calling gateway, sandboxed execution orchestration, policy and guardrail enforcement, and audit/observability pipelines.
• Develop robust, well‑documented APIs (REST/gRPC) and event‑driven components that let agents interact safely with enterprise systems, data sources, and MCP‑style tool servers.
• Engineer for production from day one: concurrency, queuing, retries with backoff, idempotency, rate limiting, multi‑tenancy, and LLM cost/usage controls.
• Integrate and operate LLMs and agent frameworks within the platform; build the abstractions that let the team swap models and providers without rework.
• Implement security controls across the stack — least privilege, isolation boundaries, input/output validation, secrets handling, prompt‑injection and data‑exfiltration defences — and wire safety/regression test harnesses into CI/CD.
• Own deployment and operations on Kubernetes: containerization, Helm/IaC, monitoring, alerting, performance tuning, and incident response.
• Provide technical leadership: lead architecture and code reviews, define backend and security standards, mentor engineers, and raise the engineering bar across the team.
• Partner with the AI Engineer / Data Scientist to productionize prototypes, expose evaluation infrastructure, and turn research results into shipped components.
• Collaborate with product, security, and platform teams; document designs through ADRs and communicate trade‑offs clearly.

Conoscenze

Python

REST APIs

gRPC

Asynchronous processing

Security engineering

Bash scripting

Kubernetes

Leadership

Code reviews

CI/CD

Formazione

Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering

Strumenti

LangChain

LangGraph

LlamaIndex

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

Terraform

Helm

Descrizione del lavoro

HCLSoftware in Rome, Italy, seeks a Senior AI Engineer / Backend Developer to own the backend architecture of our agent execution platform. You will design runtime services, APIs, and a secure sandboxed environment to run autonomous agents with policy enforcement and observability.

The role requires 5+ years in backend development, expert Python, and hands‑on experience with GenAI integration, Kubernetes, and secure API design. Hybrid work in Rome is offered.