Software Development Engineer III

Job Overview:

We are seeking an experienced and passionate Engineer to join our engineering team. As a senior engineer, you will lead a high-performing engineering team working closely with our Design, Product, and other stakeholders to develop and deliver core product features that help in predicting and preventing cyber breaches.

Location: Bengaluru

Core Responsibilities:

• Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers, promoting engineering best practices, high code quality, and continuous improvement.
• Architecture and Design: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and architect scalable, secure, and high-performance multi-tenant services and systems.
• Code Review: Conduct thorough code reviews, identify opportunities for improvement, and provide constructive technical feedback to engineers.
• Cloud Expertise: Leverage AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, EC2, S3, RDS, and other appropriate cloud technologies to architect and optimize cloud-based solutions.
• Problem Solving: Troubleshoot complex technical problems, identify root causes, and design effective and scalable solutions.
• Collaboration: Work closely with Product, Design, Engineering, and other stakeholders to ensure technical solutions are aligned with product and business objectives.
• Project Execution: Lead the planning, execution, and successful delivery of features while maintaining engineering quality and predictable delivery.

Experience/ Qualifications/ Education:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including experience operating as a Senior Engineer or Lead Engineer.
• Strong expertise in at least one server-side programming language such as Node.js, Python, or Go .
• Hands-on experience designing and developing APIs and backend services. Experience with TypeScript and frameworks such as Express is preferred.
• Good understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases and their appropriate use across different workloads.
• Strong understanding of cloud computing concepts and hands-on experience with a major cloud provider such as AWS, GCP, or Azure .
• Experience building and deploying applications in containerized environments .
• Proven track record of building and delivering high-performance and scalable platforms in a fast-paced engineering environment.
• Strong understanding of system design, distributed systems, scalability, reliability, and multi-tenant architectures .
• Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to lead and mentor engineers toward technical excellence.
• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities.
• High degree of ownership with the ability to drive problems from definition through production delivery.
• Understanding of DevOps practices and Infrastructure as Code technologies such as AWS CloudFormation is advantageous.

AI / LLM Skills:

• Strong working knowledge of Generative AI and LLM fundamentals , including how LLMs work, tokens, context windows, prompting, hallucinations, embeddings, and common model limitations.
• Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent, with the ability to critically review and validate AI-generated code, tests, and technical solutions.
• Understanding of common LLM application patterns , including structured outputs, tool/function calling, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and agentic workflows.
• Ability to make informed engineering decisions about when to use deterministic software, a direct LLM call, retrieval/RAG, or an agentic approach , based on the problem being solved.
• Ability to define how AI-powered capabilities should be evaluated , including the use of golden datasets, appropriate accuracy metrics, regression testing, human evaluation, and LLM-as-a-judge where appropriate.
• Ability to reason about production AI trade-offs , including accuracy, latency, cost, reliability, security, and observability.

Join our rocket ship if you want to learn, make your mark, and work with incredible talent!