Sarvam
About this role
Sarvam's conversational AI platform lets customers build and run voice agents and campaigns at scale, and it already handles more than 50 million minutes of conversation a month. This Staff Engineer seat owns that system end to end: the data model, the APIs, the orchestration, the reliability and the performance bar. Sarvam is explicit that it is an individual contributor role with the scope and authority of a Staff engineer and no people management, just the systems and the standards. The stack is Python and FastAPI, with Temporal for long running stateful workflows, PostgreSQL and Redis underneath, and sub second latency SLOs on a multi tenant SaaS. It sits in Bengaluru and works closely with a Next.js frontend team. This is for a senior backend engineer who wants full ownership of a high scale production system and sets a design first, documentation first culture.
Who this is for
What the posting asks for:
- 5 to 10 years building production backend systems, with deep Python and FastAPI (or Golang).
- A track record of full stack ownership: designing systems end to end, making the tradeoffs, and operating them in production.
- Hands on workflow orchestration at scale, ideally Temporal.
- Strong PostgreSQL and Redis fundamentals (schema design, query performance, caching strategy), and experience with high scale, multi tenant, low latency distributed systems.
Nice to have: building products on top of LLMs or ML systems, a telephony, VoIP or SIP background, and time at an early or growth stage startup.
The day to day: you own the backend for agent, campaign and user management from data model to deployment, run workflow orchestration with Temporal, own performance and reliability at sub second SLOs, build observability and integration testing, and set a design first, documentation first culture (RFCs before code).
Location: Bengaluru. Pure individual contributor Staff role, no people management.
Honest read: a strong senior backend seat for someone who wants system ownership without moving into management.
- 5 to 10 years building production backend systems, with deep Python and FastAPI (or Golang).
- A track record of full stack ownership: designing systems end to end, making the tradeoffs, and operating them in production.
- Hands on workflow orchestration at scale, ideally Temporal.
- Strong PostgreSQL and Redis fundamentals (schema design, query performance, caching strategy), and experience with high scale, multi tenant, low latency distributed systems.
Nice to have: building products on top of LLMs or ML systems, a telephony, VoIP or SIP background, and time at an early or growth stage startup.
The day to day: you own the backend for agent, campaign and user management from data model to deployment, run workflow orchestration with Temporal, own performance and reliability at sub second SLOs, build observability and integration testing, and set a design first, documentation first culture (RFCs before code).
Location: Bengaluru. Pure individual contributor Staff role, no people management.
Honest read: a strong senior backend seat for someone who wants system ownership without moving into management.
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