Backend Engineer, Chanakya
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
Backend Engineers on this team are builders, not maintainers. You will design and implement the core system infrastructure that powers Sarvam's 'atoms': MCP servers, on-prem deployment tooling, document ingestion pipelines, agentic backends, and API layers. These systems run in classified, air-gapped, and operationally constrained environments — or in enterprise environments with their own security, compliance, and integration constraints.
The architecture decisions you make will be inherited by every deployment that follows. You will ship real systems, not prototypes — and you will be accountable for how they behave in the field.
What You'll Do
• Design and
