Lead Software Engineer (Python, LLM) - AskGartner

Gartner•Irving, TX

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

AskGartner 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 AskGartner 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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

LangGraph / LangChain
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
OpenSearch / Search Engine indexing, retrieval (RAG systems)
Cache technologies
AWS Kinesis (live structured log ingestion to S3)
AWS SQS
AWS Glue (data catalog, crawlers)
AWS QuickSight
SonarQube
Jenkins / Groovy
Argo CI/CD
Snyk

Responsibilities

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.

Benefits

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 that 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.
401K with corporate match, immediate vesting.
Health-and-wellness-related allowance programs.
Parental leave.
Tuition reimbursement.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Employee Assistance Program.
Gartner Gives Charity Match.