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Sr Engineer - Ad Tech
Target
Bengaluru, IND
Full-time
Senior · 4–7 years experience
Onsite
Discovered 1 weeks ago
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Requirements
- Education: 4-year degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience: 4–7 years of software engineering experience, with meaningful experience as a senior individual contributor.
- AI Experience: Hands-on experience building and shipping LLM-powered or agentic applications into production.
- LLM / GenAI: Strong experience with LLM integration, prompt engineering, structured outputs, and production AI application patterns.
- RAG: Practical experience building RAG systems, including retrieval, embeddings, metadata filtering, reranking, grounding, and evaluation.
- Agentic AI: Experience with AI agent frameworks, tool calling, agent orchestration, MCP, or similar agentic architectures.
- Backend Engineering: Strong proficiency in Java/Kotlin and Spring Boot, with experience building APIs and distributed services.
- Distributed Systems: Strong understanding of microservices, asynchronous systems, APIs, resilience, scalability, and failure handling.
- Reliability & Observability: Hands-on experience building production systems with monitoring, logging, metrics, alerting, and operational readiness.
- Cloud & DevOps: Experience with cloud-native environments and technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and managed cloud services.
- Engineering Practices: Strong coding, debugging, design, testing, code review, and problem-solving skills.
- 4–7 years of software engineering experience, with meaningful experience as a senior individual contributor.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience building multi-agent systems or agent-to-agent architectures.
- Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar tool/context integration patterns.
- Experience with vector databases, embedding systems, reranking, or modern retrieval infrastructure.
- Experience designing AI evaluation frameworks, including deterministic evaluation, LLM-based evaluation, and production regression testing.
- Experience with observability platforms and distributed tracing for AI or microservice workloads.
- Experience working with Kafka, Redis, or other distributed infrastructure technologies.
- Experience building internal platforms or reusable AI capabilities consumed by multiple engineering teams.
- Strong understanding of AI system reliability, security, governance, and responsible engineering practices.
- What Success Looks Like In this role, success means becoming a strong technical owner for important AI platform capabilities and helping move the team from experimentation to reliable production engineering. You will be expected to:
- Own and deliver major AI platform components.
- Make architectural decisions and defend them with data and engineering judgment.
- Build AI capabilities that are reliable, observable, and reusable.
- Establish strong engineering practices for agentic and LLM-based systems.
- Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar across the team.
- Help shape the platform's next generation of AI and agentic capabilities.
- What Success Looks Like
- In this role, success means becoming a strong technical owner for important AI platform capabilities and helping move the team from experimentation to reliable production engineering.
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Retail415000 employeesFounded 1902
An American general merchandise retailer.
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