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Staff IT Software Engineer

India, Bengaluru · Job Posted April 10, 2026
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We are seeking a Sr Staff IT Software Engineer to join our CPQ (Configure Price and Quote) team, responsible for designing and developing AI-powered systems for our go-to-market platform. This role will engage with multiple product and engineering teams, playing a critical part in building great products and elevating our engineering best practices. As a Senior IT Software Engineer, you will drive technical design, consistently deliver high-quality, scalable technology products, and thrive in a fast-paced environment, adapting to new business requirements and emerging technologies.

Job Responsibility

  • Design and develop scalable, highly reliable AI-powered business systems across multiple services and teams
  • Proactively collaborate and exchange information with product managers, architects, and other engineering teams to accomplish shared objectives and ensure alignment
  • Establish and champion engineering standards and best practices within an agile development environment
  • Challenge the status quo curiously and positively, applying learned insights to simplify complex technical challenges and improve system design
  • Balance technical debt, product stability, and new features against a backdrop of go-to-market pressures and timelines
  • Focus on the details by writing high-quality, maintainable, and well-tested code to deliver robust solutions
  • Mentor junior engineers, empowering them through knowledge sharing and constructive code reviews
  • Represent the engineering team in cross-functional technical discussions, ensuring alignment and clear communication of complex topics

Requirements

  • A minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree
  • or 3 years with a Master’s degree
  • or a PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field
  • Proven ability to develop and maintain scalable web applications and integrations using a microservices architecture
  • Strong server-side software development experience using Spring/Spring Boot, Java, Go, or other comparable technologies
  • In-depth knowledge of object-oriented programming, data structures, algorithms, and design patterns
  • Experience building production applications with LLM APIs (e.g., Google Vertex AI/Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic)
  • Familiarity with Large Language Models (LLMs), vector embeddings, semantic search, and similarity-based retrieval patterns
  • Understanding of prompt engineering best practices and LLM security considerations like input validation and prompt injection prevention

Nice to have

  • Experience architecting conversational AI platforms, chatbots, or Text-to-SQL systems
  • Proficiency with CI/CD platforms and tools such as Kubernetes, Jenkins, Git, Spinnaker, or Docker
  • Functional knowledge of Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) platforms (e.g., Salesforce CPQ, Oracle CPQ)
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