Principal Engineer (AI + Backend) | Series B AI SaaS | BLR

Michael Page International · Bengaluru · onsite · Posted 66d ago

Not disclosed10–15 yrsfulltimeSourced from Foundit

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About this role

Own architecture and AI strategy across the company
Shape technology strategy with the founding team

Job Description

Own the backend architecture and technical direction across the company's product portfolio.
Design and scale distributed systems, APIs, data platforms, cloud infrastructure and core engineering platforms.
Set technical standards around scalability, reliability, performance and engineering quality.
Lead the integration of AI agents and agentic workflows into production, working across orchestration, retrieval, tool use, context and observability.
Build the backend infrastructure required to make AI systems reliable, scalable, measurable and cost-efficient.
Develop AI-powered engineering tools, including developer tooling, code generation and AI-assisted QA.
Stay hands-on - prototype, code and validate critical technical decisions.
Partner directly with the Co-Founder & CTO, founders and CPO on long-term technology strategy.

The Successful Applicant

10-15 years of engineering experience, with a strong foundation in backend engineering and distributed systems.
10+ years building scalable Cloud/SaaS products, enterprise platforms or developer infrastructure.
Deep expertise in backend architecture, distributed systems, APIs, databases and cloud infrastructure.
Proven experience shipping AI-powered systems or AI agents into production.
Strong practical understanding of agent orchestration, tool calling, retrieval, context management, evaluation and observability.
Ability to solve the production challenges around reliability, latency, scale, security and cost of AI systems.
Strong hands-on coding and architecture skills, with a bias toward building rather than simply reviewing.
Proven ability to influence senior engineering and product leaders and raise the technical bar across an organization.
Excellent communicator who can simplify complex technical decisions for founders and executive stakeholders.

What's on Offer

Senior-most Engineering IC role with ownership of the company's technical direction.
Direct reporting to the Co-Founder & CTO and close partnership with the founders.
Ownership across backend architecture and AI engineering.
The opportunity to take AI agents from concept to reliable production deployment.
A mandate to shape architecture, engineering standards and AI-native development practices.
The opportunity to build the infrastructure that fundamentally changes how a growing SaaS company builds and ships software.

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Skills

retrieval context managementobservabilityDistributed SystemsapisEvaluationDatabasesAgent orchestrationCloud InfrastructureAI-powered systemstool callingBackend Architecture

About Michael Page International

Michael Page International

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1976

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Job Description

Own the backend architecture and technical direction across the company's product portfolio.
Design and scale distributed systems, APIs, data platforms, cloud infrastructure and core engineering platforms.
Set technical standards around scalability, reliability, performance and engineering quality.
Lead the integration of AI agents and agentic workflows into production, working across orchestration, retrieval, tool use, context and observability.
Build the backend infrastructure required to make AI systems reliable, scalable, measurable and cost-efficient.
Develop AI-powered engineering tools, including developer tooling, code generation and AI-assisted QA.
Stay hands-on - prototype, code and validate critical technical decisions.
Partner directly with the Co-Founder & CTO, founders and CPO on long-term technology strategy.

The Successful Applicant

10-15 years of engineering experience, with a strong foundation in backend engineering and distributed systems.
10+ years building scalable Cloud/SaaS products, enterprise platforms or developer infrastructure.
Deep expertise in backend architecture, distributed systems, APIs, databases and cloud infrastructure.
Proven experience shipping AI-powered systems or AI agents into production.
Strong practical understanding of agent orchestration, tool calling, retrieval, context management, evaluation and observability.
Ability to solve the production challenges around reliability, latency, scale, security and cost of AI systems.
Strong hands-on coding and architecture skills, with a bias toward building rather than simply reviewing.
Proven ability to influence senior engineering and product leaders and raise the technical bar across an organization.
Excellent communicator who can simplify complex technical decisions for founders and executive stakeholders.

What's on Offer

Senior-most Engineering IC role with ownership of the company's technical direction.
Direct reporting to the Co-Founder & CTO and close partnership with the founders.
Ownership across backend architecture and AI engineering.
The opportunity to take AI agents from concept to reliable production deployment.
A mandate to shape architecture, engineering standards and AI-native development practices.
The opportunity to build the infrastructure that fundamentally changes how a growing SaaS company builds and ships software.