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Software Engineer

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15 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior / Staff+

Responsibilities

  • Design scalable Python backend systems and data pipelines.
  • Develop complex agentic AI and LLM systems using LangGraph.
  • Define LLM performance, token, latency, throughput, and cost optimization strategies.
  • Establish AI/RAG architecture, API, database, and distributed-systems standards.
  • Drive AWS and cloud-native architecture using S3, SQS, SNS, Lambda, Docker, and Kubernetes.
  • Deploy and operate LangGraph and multi-agent workloads with versioned prompts, runtime safeguards, and rollback strategies.
  • Lead complex technical and production issues across teams.
  • Mentor engineers, influence engineering standards, and align technical strategy with business goals.
  • Create technical design documentation, contribute to user documentation, debug software issues, and improve development processes.

Requirements

  • 5 to 10 years of hands-on experience in machine learning engineering, backend development, and applied AI.
  • Deep experience with agentic AI, LLM applications, LangGraph, and RAG architectures.
  • Experience operationalizing deep learning and LLM models in production.
  • Experience deploying LangGraph and multi-agent workloads with versioned prompts, runtime safeguards, and rollback strategies.
  • Strong experience optimizing token usage, latency, throughput, and cost for LLM systems.
  • Experience with LLM evaluation and observability tooling such as LangSmith or equivalent.
  • Expertise in ETL optimization, including workload-aware scheduling, partition pruning, caching, and storage-format tuning.
  • Strong expertise in Python, backend engineering, and distributed systems.
  • Ability to mentor engineers and lead large-scale cross-functional initiatives.
  • Ability to align technical strategy with business goals and stakeholder priorities.
  • Knowledge of network technologies and enterprise platform integration patterns.
  • Strong written and verbal communication, including executive-ready technical storytelling.
  • Experience integrating Model Context Protocol and related AI tool ecosystems.

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About Cisco

10,000+ employees

Cisco designs and sells networking, security, and collaboration platforms for enterprises, service providers, and governments, spanning routers and switches, Wi‑Fi, firewalls, zero‑trust, observability, and cloud-managed IT (Meraki) plus Webex. Its business model mixes hardware, software subscriptions, and support/consulting services. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Cisco is a public company traded on Nasdaq and serves customers across data centers, campuses, and service provider networks.

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