# Staff Engineer – Systems Engineering

- Link: https://100xfounder.com/job/sarvam-ai-staff-engineer-systems-engineering-d0af4e/
- Published: 2026-10-06T11:31:20+05:30
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### About Sarvam

Sarvam is building the bedrock of Sovereign AI for India. The company is developing
India’s full-stack sovereign AI platform, building across research, models, infrastructure
and applications with a singular focus on making AI genuinely work for India. Sarvam
works with leading enterprises and public institutions and is backed by Lightspeed,
Peak XV, and Khosla Ventures. Sarvam partners with India’s leading brands, including
Tata Capital, SBI Life, CRED, IDFC, and LIC.

### The Role

Samvaad is a conversational AI platform for enterprises, startups, digital natives,
and governments. We are hiring hands-on technical owners who can take ambiguous 
problems through to reliable production systems.

At the heart of Sarvam’s conversational AI platform sits the system that lets our
customers build, configure, deploy, and operate voice agents and campaigns – at 
scale. The platform currently powers millions of voice calls a day that are deeply
personalised and understands the users.

We’re looking for a Staff Engineer to own this system end-to-end. The data model.
The APIs. The orchestration. The reliability. The performance. The standards we 
hold ourselves to. This is an IC role with the scope and authority of one – no people
management, just the systems and the bar.

### What You’ll Own

The end-to-end backend for agent, campaign, and user management – from data modeling
through API design to deployment, in Python and FastAPI

Workflow orchestration with Temporal for complex, long-running, stateful operations

Performance and reliability for a multi-tenant SaaS platform operating at sub-second
latency SLOs

Observability – logging, metrics, tracing – so the team can debug production confidently
and quickly

Integration testing – the test infrastructure that lets us ship fast without breaking
customer-facing systems

Close collaboration with the frontend team (Next.js) to deliver an experience worthy
of the underlying platform

Setting the design-first and documentation-first engineering culture within your
team – RFCs before code, decisions written down, no tribal knowledge

### What We’re Looking For

8-12 years building production backend systems, with deep expertise in Python and
FastAPI (or Golang)

Orchestrate high-volume, personalized campaigns and long-running conversations with
strong reliability.

A track record of full-stack ownership – you’ve designed systems end-to-end, made
the trade-offs, and operated them in production

Hands-on experience with workflow orchestration at scale, ideally Temporal

Built and operated high-scale distributed systems – multi-tenant, low-latency, resilient
under real load

Strong PostgreSQL and Redis fundamentals – schema design, query performance, caching
strategy

The judgment to know when to build vs. buy, when to optimize vs. ship, when to abstract
vs. inline

### Nice to Have

Experience building products on top of LLMs or AI/ML systems

Background in telephony, VoIP, or SIP infrastructure

Time at an early- or growth-stage startup – comfort with ambiguity, speed, and ownership