Engineering Manager, AI
TLDR
Lead a high-impact team building enterprise-grade AI security, governance, and agent-management platforms, shaping architecture, delivery, reliability, and security for AI-native products.

Engineering Manager, AI
Location: Bangalore / Coimbatore (Hybrid)
About AppViewX
Role Overview
Key Responsibilities
Engineering Leadership
- Build, mentor, and manage a team of 15–30 software engineers, architects, and technical leads.
- Advance engineering excellence through strong software development practices, architecture reviews, code quality, and operational rigor.
- Foster a culture of innovation, ownership, accountability, continuous learning, and customer focus.
- Establish career development plans, coaching frameworks, and performance processes for engineers.
AI Platform, Architecture, Governance and Security
- Lead the design, development, and delivery of enterprise-grade AI-native SaaS platforms focused on AI governance, compliance, policy enforcement, MCP security, AI risk management, and security analytics.
- Define and execute the technical roadmap for scalable, resilient, multi-tenant cloud-native systems aligned with business priorities and customer needs.
- Shape architectural direction across AI and platform services, including LLM integrations, AI gateways and proxies, security enforcement frameworks, event-driven architectures, and workflow orchestration systems.
- Establish and promote secure AI development practices, including controls for policy enforcement, prompt security, agent and MCP governance, audit logging, observability, and operational resilience.
- Ensure platform reliability, performance, scalability, and security using distributed systems principles, cloud-native technologies, and engineering best practices.
- Partner closely with Product Management, Security Research, Customer Success, and GRC teams to deliver solutions aligned with frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST AI RMF, and OWASP LLM Top 10.
Reliability and Operations
- Promote operational excellence through observability, monitoring, incident management, and SRE best practices.
- Define SLAs, SLOs, and reliability goals for AI and platform services.
- Lead production readiness reviews and post-incident improvement efforts.
- Drive cloud cost optimization and platform efficiency initiatives.
Stakeholder Management
- Communicate technical vision, risks, trade-offs, and progress to executive stakeholders.
- Partner with customers and field teams to understand enterprise AI adoption challenges.
- Translate customer requirements into scalable product capabilities.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field.
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years leading engineering teams in a product development environment.
- Proven experience building and delivering enterprise-scale SaaS platforms using cloud-native architectures and distributed systems.
- Strong technical expertise in Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), AI agents, and AI application architectures.
- Hands-on experience designing and integrating AI platforms, model services, APIs, and enterprise AI workflows.
- Deep understanding of software architecture, microservices, Kubernetes, containers, event-driven systems, and high-availability design principles.
- Experience implementing security, governance, compliance, and risk management controls within enterprise software products.
- Strong knowledge of public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, including DevOps and observability practices.
- Demonstrated ability to guide engineering execution, mentor technical leaders, and establish strong engineering practices across teams.
- Excellent communication, judgment, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to influence technical and business outcomes.
Our Values
- Clarity: We interact with transparency, simplicity, and shared purpose.
- Unity: We build unity through mutual respect, trust, and collaboration.
- Innovation: We stay curious, challenge assumptions, and drive continuous improvement.
- Speed: We act with urgency, focus, and follow-through to deliver results fast.
- Precision: We bring accuracy, consistency, and care to everything we do.
Why AppViewX?
Equal Opportunity Statement
AppViewX automates certificate lifecycle management and provides PKI-as-a-Service, enabling organizations to reduce risk, ensure compliance, and gain visibility over their security operations. Our platform caters to a wide range of industries, including Fortune 1000 companies, global banks, and healthcare providers, making it essential for maintaining robust cybersecurity. By streamlining automation workflows, we help prevent outages and enhance crypto-agility for our customers.