Role: Senior Software Engineer (with DevOps & SRE focus)

Bangalore, India—Hybrid

Drive the future of AI Transformation at Pearson as part of the AI Centre for Enablement team (AI C4E). Inspire innovation. Pearson, the world's leading learning company, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer with a strong DevOps & SRE mindset for our Office of Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) to join the AI Centre for Enablement (C4E) team.

The AI Centre for Enablement (C4E) builds reusable common components that scale AI capabilities across Pearson.

This role combines hands-on software engineering with ownership of reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.

You will work within a global engineering pod spanning India, Poland, and the US to deliver enterprise-grade AI services.

As a member of OCTO AI C4E and Pearson, you are expected to embody and role model our leadership dimensions:

Foster collaboration, inclusion, and high performance.

Achieve measurable outcomes with quality and speed.

Design, implement, and optimize backend systems (Python, Neo4j or Apache Jena) and reusable AI services.

Own services end-to-end, including deployment, monitoring, and reliability.

Implement observability practices including logging, monitoring, and alerting.

Support incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.

Collaborate with product and data teams to productionise AI/ML solutions.

Drive best practices in software engineering, DevOps, and system reliability.

Customer-centric with focus on performance and reliability.





Ownership mindset across development and operations.

Motivated to grow expertise in DevOps, SRE, and AI systems.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Strong software engineering experience in backend and distributed systems.

Knowledge of cloud platforms, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.

Familiarity or interest in AI/ML systems and modern engineering practices.

Opportunity to build AI-powered services at enterprise scale.

Visibility within OCTO and Chief Data & AI Office.

At Pearson, our purpose is easy: to help people realize the life they imagine through learning. We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough. We are the world's lifelong learning company. We are Pearson.

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other group protected by law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

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Schedule: FULL_TIME

Workplace Type: Hybrid

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