Lead Software Engineer

AppOmni is a leader in SaaS security, dedicated to preventing data breaches through innovative solutions. The Lead Software Engineer will play a crucial role in advancing the company's AI strategy by collaborating with various teams to develop and maintain backend services and infrastructure for their GenAI applications.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs to support our GenAI product using Python and FastAPI, ensuring they are scalable, reliable, and secure
• Develop and operate LLM-powered applications and agentic workflows using LangChain, LangGraph, and LangSmith, including tracing, evaluation, and observability
• Develop and manage infrastructure using Terraform, applying infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practices across backend and ML resources
• Build and maintain monitoring and alerting systems to surface service and API health issues early, ensuring reliability and performance
• Handle large datasets to ensure data is processed, ready for model context, and collaborate in the platform data pipeline
• Evaluate and select appropriate tools and technologies and define the overall technical strategy
• Assess and interpret data to gain insights, especially for testing and monitoring purposes
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, including infrastructure-as-code (IaC), and automate deployment and monitoring across backend services and ML workflows
• Continuously improve and automate monitoring and alerts processes
• Optimize infrastructure and services for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency, and troubleshoot issues across deployment and runtime
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to pipeline deployment and performance
• Contribute to the development of internal engineering standards and documentation
• Advocate for engineering best practices and promote a culture of continuous improvement also mentoring and guiding others in the company in this topic
• Understand the requirements of stakeholders and translate them into technical solutions
• Develop robust model monitoring and alerting systems to ensure model performance and identify issues
• Support our mission and vision and embody and demonstrate AppOmni core values of Trust, Transparency, Quality, Customer Focus, and Delivery. Comply with all company policies and governing laws and regulations

Requirements:

• At least 8 years of experience in backend centric software development
• Degree in a relevant field such as Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative discipline
• Strong programming skills: Proficiency in coding Python for production implementation, including coding best practices, testing, performance considerations, with a good understanding of libraries like Pandas, Polars, Langchain, Langsmith
• Experience implementing infrastructure for Machine Learning and Generative AI applications
• Experience in security engineering or another complex domain
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with Product, Engineering, Field, and other cross-functional teams
• Experience in Cloud computing: Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP for model training and deployment
• Experience with ML services in Cloud Platforms like VertexAI in GCP
• Proficient in containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with model monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack)
• Usage of Software engineering practices: Version control, code review, and software design principles
• Expertise in CI/CD tools (Github, Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI)
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Problem-solving and critical thinking with the ability to analyze complex problems, identify potential issues, and develop innovative solutions
• Strong self-management skills and able to prioritize tasks and manage time effectively
• Proactive approach to work and ability to take initiative