Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together.
As a Software Software Engineer in our Engineering Enablement Group, you will pioneer the re-design and evolution of our global translation platform, ensuring it is highly reliable, scalable, and fault-tolerant. You will lead the architectural shift across public, private, and hybrid clouds to enable frequent, high-impact deployments while maintaining world-class responsiveness.
By leveraging AWS and modern microservices, you will transform our infrastructure into a robust ecosystem that allows feature teams to iterate rapidly. We are looking for a technical leader who can bridge the gap between complex Python-based customer delivery and sophisticated DevOps automation, ultimately delivering a seamless, localized experience to our global users.
Preferred Qualifications
- Python Expert: 6-9 Years of experience with High proficiency in Python with a proven track record of designing and delivering customer-facing features (experience with Golang or Java is a plus).
- AWS User: Advanced experience with AWS infrastructure, specifically AWS Bedrock or similar AI/ML integration services.
- CI/CD Architect: Strong end-to-end knowledge of pipeline creation, deployment automation, and infrastructure-as-code.
- System Observability: Familiarity with monitoring and performance tools
- Education: Bachelors in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
To be successful in this role, you need:
- Agentic Architecture & Workflow Design: Design, develop, and deploy production-grade LLM agents and multi-agent systems. Create stateful, resilient agentic workflows featuring self-correction, planning, and advanced tool use
- Model Evaluation & Benchmarking: Establish strict automated and human-in-the-loop (HITL) evaluation pipelines. Define metrics for accuracy, latency, hallucination rates, and tool-calling fidelity to systematically test changes before production deployment
- Fine-Tuning & Model Selection: Experiment with and select the right models (proprietary vs. open-source) for specific tasks within an agentic pipeline, including fine-tuning smaller models for highly specialized agent nodes.
- Design : To lead the re-design of our translation platform, ensuring it is immutable, secure, and resilient against high-volume traffic.
- DevOps Ownership: A "builder" mindset toward end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, automating every phase of the development lifecycle to achieve true continuous delivery.
- Strategic Problem Solving: Strong debugging skills to resolve complex distributed systems issues, paired with the soft skills needed to mentor teams and lead cross-functional initiatives.
- Product-Centric Engineering: Experience building software in an enterprise SaaS environment with a focus on delivering direct value to the end customer through Python.
Tools and Resources
- Training and Development: During onboarding, we focus on equipping new hires with the skills and knowledge for success through department-specific training. Continuous learning is a central focus at Appian, with dedicated mentorship and the First-Friend program being widely utilized resources for new hires.
- Growth Opportunities: Appian provides a diverse array of growth and development opportunities, including our leadership program tailored for new and aspiring managers, a comprehensive library of specialized department training through Appian University, skills based training, and tuition reimbursement for those aiming to advance their education. This commitment ensures that employees have access to a holistic range of development opportunities.
- Community: We’ll immerse you into our community rooted in respect starting on day one. Appian fosters inclusivity through our 8 employee-led affinity groups. These groups help employees build stronger internal and external networks by planning social, educational, and outreach activities to connect with Appianites and larger initiatives throughout the company.
Benefits
Appian offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, wellbeing, and financial future. Benefits may include health coverage, Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with free mental health support, life and disability insurance, an Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP), a retirement/pension plan, wellness dollars, tuition reimbursement, family-forming benefits and more. Benefits vary by country—please ask your Talent Acquisition contact for details specific to the location you are applying to.
About Appian
Appian provides AI automation for mission-critical work. We automate complex processes in large enterprises and governments. Our platform is known for its unique reliability and scale. We’ve been automating processes for more than 25 years and understand enterprise operations like no one else. For more information, visit appian.com. [Nasdaq: APPN]
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