Senior Engineering Manager (Inference Service)

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India; Pune, Maharashtra, India

Department: Platform Engineering

About the Role

We are seeking a highly experienced and visionary Senior Engineering Manager – Inference Services to lead and scale our team responsible for building high-performance inference systems that power cutting-edge AI/ML products. This role requires a blend of strong technical expertise, leadership skills, and product-oriented thinking to drive innovation, scalability, and reliability of our inference infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leadership & Strategy

  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers focused on inference platforms, services, and optimizations.

  • Define the long-term vision and roadmap for inference services in alignment with product and business goals.

  • Partner with cross-functional leaders in ML, Product, Data Science, and Infrastructure to deliver robust, low-latency, and scalable inference solutions.

• Engineering Excellence

  • Architect and oversee development of distributed, production-grade inference systems ensuring scalability, efficiency, and reliability.

  • Drive adoption of best practices for model deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement of inference pipelines.

  • Ensure high availability, cost optimization, and performance tuning of inference workloads across cloud and on-prem environments.

• Innovation & Delivery

  • Evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, and hardware accelerators (GPUs, TPUs, etc.) to continuously improve inference efficiency.

  • Champion automation and standardization of model deployment and lifecycle management.

  • Balance short-term delivery with long-term architectural evolution.

• People & Culture

  • Build a strong engineering culture focused on collaboration, innovation, and accountability.

  • Provide coaching, feedback, and career development opportunities to team members.

  • Foster a growth mindset and data-driven decision-making.

Basic Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with at least 4–5 years in engineering leadership roles.
• Bachelor's or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven track record of managing high-performing teams delivering large-scale distributed systems or ML platforms.
• Experience in building and operating inference systems, ML serving platforms, or real-time data systems at scale.
• Strong understanding of machine learning model deployment, serving, and optimization (batch & real-time).
• Proficiency in cloud-native technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, microservices architecture).
• Hands-on knowledge of inference frameworks (TensorFlow Serving, Triton Inference Server, TorchServe, etc.) and hardware accelerators.
• Solid background in programming languages (Python, Java, C++ or Go) and performance optimization techniques.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with MLOps platforms and end-to-end ML lifecycle management.
• Prior work in high-throughput, low-latency systems (ad-tech, search, recommendations, etc.).
• Knowledge of cost optimization strategies for large-scale inference workloads.

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