Principal Software Engineer — Backend & Infrastructure - Noida / Bengaluru

About Level AI

Role overview

What you will do

• Own architecture for real-time data processing and distributed messaging systems with strict latency requirements.
• Define and execute the roadmap for model training and serving infrastructure.
• Own GPU capacity planning, scheduling, utilization, and burst-demand handling.
• Improve inference latency and cost through batching, routing, quantization, compilation, autoscaling, and caching.
• Drive uptime, observability, and incident response for production serving systems.
• Turn business problems into executable cross-functional technical plans.
• Lead design reviews, mentor senior engineers, and shape engineering standards.
• Evaluate emerging tools and techniques for practical adoption.
• Comply with company security, privacy, data-protection, and acceptable-use policies.

What you will bring

• 10+ years building backend and infrastructure systems with architecture ownership at scale.
• Deep hands-on experience with large-scale databases, high-throughput messaging systems, and real-time job queues.
• Ability to reason about architectural tradeoffs in large, complex codebases.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and influencing technical decisions.
• Strong written communication for engineering and executive audiences.
• BTech, MTech, PhD in Computer Science, or equivalent; track record is emphasized over credentials.

Bonus experience

• Production experience with Django, Celery, Redis, PostgreSQL, and Google Cloud.
• Experience scaling production GPU infrastructure and model inference.
• Experience with vLLM, TensorRT, Triton, Ray Serve, or equivalent inference tooling.
• Experience scaling a platform through a comparable growth stage.
• Background in speech, NLP, or information retrieval systems.

Benefits

• Health coverage is offered for the employee, spouse, children, and parents.
• The posting references home-office, connectivity, learning, and parental-leave benefits, subject to confirmation.