Python Engineering- 2+ years of production Python. Comfortable with asyncio, FastAPI, Pydantic v2, and SQLAlchemy 2.0. Ability to read and extend an unfamiliar codebase quickly.
LLM & Agent Frameworks - Hands-on experience building or operating LLM-powered agent pipelines — LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, or equivalent. Understands state graphs, tool calls, memory, and multi-step reasoning loops.
Agent Tool Development- Can design, implement, and register new agent tools using the @tool decorator pattern (LangGraph/LangChain). Understands tool allowlists, input/output schemas, and safe integration with existing agent contexts.
Prompt Engineering- Can systematically diagnose LLM failure modes and improve prompts through controlled iteration. Understands token budgeting, few-shot construction, output format control, and context window management.
Streaming & Event Systems- Working knowledge of at least one streaming or log-shipping technology — Kafka, Kinesis, Fluentd, Logstash, syslog-ng, or similar. Understands consumer lag, backpressure, and at-least-once delivery semantics.
Async & Distributed Systems - Understands async task queues (Celery, SQS, Redis), message broker patterns, and how to debug distributed pipeline failures from logs and traces.
Databases & Search- Solid PostgreSQL fundamentals: schema design, JSONB queries, indexing. Exposure to time-series stores (TimescaleDB) and full-text search (OpenSearch / Elasticsearch) is a plus.
Cloud & Infrastructure- Comfortable with AWS (S3, SQS, IAM, Kinesis) or Azure equivalents. Docker and container-based local deployments. Familiarity with docker-compose for multi-service dev environments.
Customer Communication - Strong written and spoken English. Can explain a multi-stage agent failure to a non-technical operations director. Experience in customer-facing technical roles — solutions engineering, implementation, pre-sales, or technical consulting — is a strong plus.
Education Qualification: B.E. / B.Tech or M.Tech in Computer Science, Electronics, or a related engineering discipline. Equivalent industry experience is fully acceptable.