Software Development Engineer Principal- India

Overview

Principal Software Development Engineer role to define and drive the end-to-end technical vision for Dara’s AI capabilities.

What you'll do

• Own and drive the AI/ML technical roadmap for the Dara MCP platform.
• Define reference architectures for LLM orchestration, RAG, and document intelligence solutions.
• Design MCP server topology, tool contracts, and Streamable HTTP implementation patterns.
• Establish event-driven AI architecture standards using Kafka and distributed messaging.
• Develop core AI services using Python and TypeScript.
• Define CI/CD, observability, and MLOps best practices for AI platforms.

What you'll need

• 10+ years of software engineering and solution architecture experience.
• Deep expertise in Large Language Models including Claude Sonnet, GPT-4, Gemini.
• Strong experience designing and implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions.
• Expertise in prompt engineering, structured outputs, few-shot learning, and AI workflow design.
• Expertise in Model Context Protocol (MCP) architecture, server design, and AI tool integration patterns.
• Proficiency with Apache Kafka/Confluent Kafka and event-driven platform architectures.

Details

• Work mode: Hybrid.
• Location: Chennai.