# Software Platform Engineer II

Job Summary We are seeking a highly skilled Senior AI Backend Engineer to design, build, and productionize backend systems and ML/LLM inference pipelines within cloud-native environments. This role focuses on developing and operating production-grade AI agents powered by frontier models while ensuring scalability, reliability, and operational excellence.The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in backend engineering, model serving, and AI platform development, with hands-on experience in Agentic AI frameworks such as LangGraph and LangChain. You will be responsible for building the orchestration layer around large language models, including tooling, context management, workflow automation, guardrails, and evaluation frameworks.Experience with Azure cloud services, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and cloud-native operations is highly desirable. Key Responsibilities: AI & Backend Engineering: Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend APIs and microservices using Python, FastAPI, and asynchronous programming patterns. Build and deploy production-ready Agentic AI workflows using LangGraph and LangChain. Develop intelligent agent systems incorporating tool calling, multi-step

- **Id**: 4246218
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/metlife-software-platform-engineer-ii-3>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Pune, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T12:39:16Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T12:45:12Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5587
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Property & Casualty Insurance, Health Insurance & Benefits, Life Insurance & Annuities

## Company

- **Id**: 450553
- **Name**: MetLife
- **Domain**: metlife.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/metlife-5>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Avature

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Azure AKS** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LangChain** — Optional: no
- **LangGraph** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: yes
- **Azure Cosmos DB** — Optional: yes
- **Azure DevOps** — Optional: yes
- **Bicep** — Optional: yes
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes
- **Claude** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **Embeddings** — Optional: yes
- **FAISS** — Optional: yes
- **FastAPI** — Optional: yes
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: yes
- **Function Calling** — Optional: yes
- **Gemini** — Optional: yes
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: yes
- **Helm** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **LangSmith** — Optional: yes
- **Milvus** — Optional: yes
- **MLFlow** — Optional: yes
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: yes
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: yes
- **Next.js** — Optional: yes
- **Pinecone** — Optional: yes
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: yes
- **Prompt Engineering** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **RAG** — Optional: yes
- **React.js** — Optional: yes
- **Redis** — Optional: yes
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: yes
- **Structured Outputs** — Optional: yes
- **Terraform** — Optional: yes
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T12:39:16Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 15
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T14:15:32Z

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