Lead Software Engineer; Python, LLM - AskGartner

About the Role

Ask Gartner is building toward becoming the AI-powered strategic advisor for enterprise clients – a product that puts the full depth of Gartner’s research, proprietary data, and expert knowledge at clients’ fingertips. As a Lead Engineer on the Ask Gartner core platform team, you will be a key technical force shaping the chat and embedded AI experiences that serve as the product’s primary surface.

This role demands an engineer who can independently drive complex initiatives end-to-end, make sound architecture decisions, and collaborate across teams to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions.

• Drive technical initiatives end-to-end – from requirements and design through delivery and post-launch iteration – with minimal guidance.
• Own architecture and design decisions for complex systems, demonstrating strong judgment on scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Communicate and collaborate effectively across engineering teams, product managers, and stakeholders to align on technical direction.
• Mentor and elevate fellow engineers through thoughtful code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing.
• Lead solutioning sessions and proactively surface technical risks, trade-offs, and recommendations.
• Serve as a technical point of contact for cross-functional teams, articulating complex engineering decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Self‑motivated and hands‑on professional – operates independently, completes work without follow-ups, and navigates ambiguity and challenges with minimal assistance.
• Proactively picks up design, development tasks, drives them to completion, and communicates progress and blockers without prompting.
• Participates actively in solutioning, contributes ideas, and raises issues early.
• Adaptable and eager to learn – our team uses a wide array of technologies and the right candidate embraces new tools with confidence.
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment and is comfortable supporting production releases.

• Python – expert-level proficiency
• Python backend services: development, APIs, deployment, and scaling
• Python FastAPI and asynchronous programming
• Cloud technologies: AWS (primary), Azure
• AWS Sage Maker Pipelines (end-to-end ML workflows)
• Python unit testing (pytest)
• Git
• AWS S3 and data formats (Parquet, JSON, CSV)
• Postgre
  
  SQL / SQL
• Pandas

• Lang Graph / Lang Chain
• Large language models (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Google)
• Load testing frameworks (e.g., Locust, JMeter)
• AWS Athena
• AWS S3 (bucket policies), IAM roles and policies
• Splunk
• AWS Secrets Manager and Parameter Store
• AWS EMR (PySpark-based ETL)
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• Open Search / Search Engine indexing, retrieval (RAG systems)
• Cache technologies

• AWS Kinesis (live structured log ingestion to S3)
• AWS SQS
• AWS Glue (data catalog, crawlers)
• AWS Quick Sight
• Sonar Qube
• Jenkins / Groovy
• Argo CI/CD
• Snyk

• Competitive compensation
• Limitless growth and learning opportunities
• Ongoing mentorship and apprenticeship: leadership courses, development programs, technical courses, certification opportunities and more
• A collaborative and positive culture – join a diverse team of professionals who are as smart and driven as you
• A chance to make an impact – your work will contribute directly to our strategy
• Hybrid work environment – enjoy the flexibility of working from home and the energy of collaborating with peers in our dynamic offices
• 20+ PTO days plus holidays and floating holidays in your first year
• Extensive medical, dental insurance and vision plan
• 401 K with corporate match, immediate vesting
• Health‑and‑wellness‑related allowance programs
• Parental leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• Charity match from Gartner and many more benefits

Gartner believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is 116,000 USD – 170,000 USD. Actual salaries may vary within or above/below this range based on education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location. In…