--- title: 'Staff Engineer, API Platform at Sarvam' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-engineer-api-platform-sarvam-bengaluru-qnzwq1epm1cf' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-12' --- # Staff Engineer, API Platform at Sarvam - **Company:** [Sarvam](https://feeny.ai/companies/sarvam) - **Location:** Bengaluru, India - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-05-21 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sarvam/48b2c236-a7e7-475d-b98b-4eb942e85dc7/application **Skills:** Go, Python, FastAPI, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, WebSockets, Distributed Systems, Streaming Systems, WebSocket connections, Backpressure management, Schema design, Caching strategy, Metering, Billing, Rate-limiting, Observability, Logging, Metrics, Tracing > Sarvam is seeking a Staff Engineer to own the end-to-end design and evolution of its sovereign AI platform's API stack. The role involves leading the Python-to-Go language rewrite, engineering audio, vision, and streaming pipelines, and ensuring high reliability and performance for a multi-tenant system handling ten... ## Job description ## 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. ## About the Role Sarvam's model APIs (ASR, TTS, Vision, LLM, Translate) are how developers and enterprises ship products on our foundation models. The platform handles tens of millions of API calls every day, over HTTP and WebSockets, with metering, billing, prepaid wallets, and rate-limiting all part of the same stack. Today it's FastAPI and Python; we're in the middle of rewriting it in Go. We're hiring a Staff Engineer to own this platform end-to-end. The architecture. The reliability. The performance. The standards. This is an IC role. ## What You’ll Do - The end-to-end design and evolution of the platform, from the moment a request hits the edge to the response that goes back out - The Python→Go rewrite: leading the architecture, setting the patterns, and bringing the platform across without compromising reliability - Audio pipeline engineering: TTS chunking around model context limits, sample-rate adjustments and format encoding, VAD-based silence detection for ASR - Vision pipelines: orchestrating OCR, layout detection, and VLM harnesses for structured data extraction - Streaming infrastructure: WebSocket connections, queue-based batch processing, back pressure, low-latency model invocation - The commercial layer: metering, billing, prepaid wallet management, and rate-limiting, engineered to the same bar as the model APIs themselves - Performance and reliability for a multi-tenant platform operating at sub-second latency SLOs - Observability (logging, metrics, tracing), so the team can debug production confidently and quickly - Integration testing infrastructure: the harness that lets us ship fast without breaking customer-facing APIs - Close partnership with the Inference and MLOps teams, mentoring them on production engineering so model serving is fast, reliable, and operable - Design-first, documentation-first engineering culture within the team: RFCs before code, decisions written down, no tribal knowledge ## What We’re Looking For - 7+ years building production backend systems at scale - Strong Go in production: you've designed, built, and operated Go services under real load - Comfortable in Python: you'll work in both languages through the rewrite, and FastAPI is the current foundation - A track record of designing and operating high-scale, low-latency, multi-tenant distributed systems - Hands-on experience with real-time / streaming systems: WebSockets, long-lived connections, backpressure - Strong PostgreSQL and Redis fundamentals: schema design, query performance, caching strategy - Comfort running services on Kubernetes in production - The judgment of a senior IC: when to build vs. buy, when to optimize vs. ship, when to abstract vs. inline, and how to bring others up with you Bonus Points - Experience serving LLMs, ASR, TTS, or vision models in production - Background in audio processing (pyav, FFmpeg, codec / sample-rate work, VAD) - Experience building metering, billing, or wallet / payments infrastructure - Time at an early- or growth-stage startup: comfort with ambiguity, speed, and ownership Why Sarvam? Sarvam is a fast-moving, high talent-density team building full-stack AI for India, working on problems that push the frontiers of AI with real population-scale impact. - Work alongside researchers, engineers, builders, and business leaders who move fast and hold each other to a very high bar - High ownership and high impact, from day one - Everything we do is AI-first, from the way we build and ship to the way we think about problems - You can work on problems that could change how an entire country learns, works, and communicates If you want to work on problems at the frontier of AI in India, Sarvam is the place to be. ## About Sarvam ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Sarvam is building India's full-stack sovereign AI platform, delivering state-of-the-art models and enterprise-grade applications for Indic languages. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A – $41M raised) - **Headquarters**: Bengaluru, India - **Founded**: August 2023 - **Founders**: Dr. Vivek Raghavan, Dr. Pratyush Kumar ## Core Business - Primary industry: Artificial Intelligence / Generative AI - Target customers: Enterprises, Government, Developers (B2B, B2G) - Mission: Make AI widely accessible to everyone in India by building foundational components that reflect how the country thinks, speaks, reasons, and solves problems. ## Products & Services - **Sarvam Cloud**: Fully managed, automatically scaling API platform for Indic AI capabilities. - **Speech to Text (Saaras)**: High‑accuracy ASR across 12 Indic languages. - **Text to Speech (Bulbul)**: Natural voices across 11 Indic languages. - **Translation**: State‑of‑the‑art translation across 23 languages. - **Document Digitisation (Akshar)**: Convert PDFs and images into structured data. - **Vision Models**: Image understanding and processing. - **Samvaad**: Conversational AI studio for building voice agents. - **Arya**: AI‑for‑work platform with forward‑deployed engineers for custom agent design and integration. - **Deployment Options**: Private cloud, on‑premise, hybrid, or air‑gapped environments. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private) - **Key Metric**: Total funding $41M (from Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed, Peak XV Partners) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed, Peak XV Partners - **Growth Signals**: 62 open positions across engineering, models, product, sales, and more; case studies with large‑scale deployments (50,000+ farmer feedback calls, millions of policy calls); SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, DPDP compliant. ## Competitive Advantages - **Sovereign AI**: All technology developed and operated entirely in India, with full data control and compliance with Indian data protection laws. - **Full‑stack platform**: From foundational models to enterprise agents, everything built in‑house. - **Forward‑deployed engineering**: Dedicated engineers embedded with customer teams to ensure successful delivery. - **Population‑scale impact**: Proven ability to serve millions of users in Indic languages across government and BFSI. - **Deployment flexibility**: Can run on any infrastructure, including air‑gapped for regulated industries. ## Strategic Focus - Continue building state‑of‑the‑art models and tools for Indic languages. - Expand enterprise and government adoption of conversational AI agents. - Nurture the Indian AI ecosystem by open‑sourcing models and tools. - Scale team rapidly (62 open roles) to support growing customer demand. ## Why Work Here - **Mission‑driven opportunity**: Shape AI that serves India’s linguistic and cultural diversity. - **On‑site first**: All roles are based in Bengaluru (Delhi also available), fostering deep collaboration. - **Cutting‑edge work**: Foundational model research, ML infrastructure, full‑stack product engineering. - **High‑impact culture**: Teams work directly with customers via forward‑deployed engineers, seeing immediate real‑world use. - **Backed by top investors**: Financial stability and growth runway from Lightspeed, Peak XV, and Khosla Ventures. ## Sources 1. [sarvam.ai](https://www.sarvam.ai/) 2. [sarvam.ai/about-us](https://www.sarvam.ai/about-us) 3. [sarvam.ai/careers](https://www.sarvam.ai/careers) 4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/sarvam](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sarvam) 5. 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