Job Description

R400878 Software Engineer, SDK and Data Context Services

Opportunity:

• Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare. • Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products. • Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.
Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company’s IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech CenteThe Lab Integration Platform is a critical enabler of digital transformation strategy, supporting secure, compliant, and efficient data exchange across laboratory systems.

Role Overview

This role is part of a broader enterprise initiative to establish a Data Context Layer (DCL) — a foundational capability designed to provide consistent, reusable, and scalable context across enterprise data products.

The DCL is intended to address challenges related to data fragmentation, lack of shared semantics, and inconsistent interpretation of data across systems and products. It establishes a unified layer for representing context, relationships, and meaning, enabling downstream products to operate with greater consistency, interoperability, and intelligence.

In addition, the DCL plays a critical role in enabling agentic AI capabilities across the enterprise by providing the structured context and semantic grounding required for intelligent agents to operate reliably. This includes ensuring that agent-driven workflows and decisions are based on consistent, governed, and interpretable data context, reducing risks associated with fragmentation, ambiguity, and lack of control.

Within this initiative, we are seeking an SDK / Developer Experience Engineer with strong experience in AWS cloud technologies to design and build the developer tooling, SDKs, and integration experiences that make enterprise context services easy to adopt. This role focuses on creating high-quality developer-facing assets that enable teams to consume APIs, context services, and platform capabilities consistently, securely, and with minimal friction.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with SDK development, developer tooling, API integration, and cloud-native systems on AWS. Familiarity with data context, semantic systems, ontologies, agentic AI, prompt engineering, and context engineering is preferred, as the tooling and SDKs may support both human developers and AI-enabled workflows.

 

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain SDKs and developer tools that simplify consumption of enterprise APIs and context services.
• Improve developer experience by creating intuitive, consistent, and reusable integration patterns.
• Work closely with API engineers, platform teams, and architects to translate service capabilities into usable client libraries and tooling.
• Build SDK features for:
  • authentication and connection setup
  • context retrieval and consumption
  • error handling and retries
  • version compatibility
  • telemetry and observability hooks
  • local testing and mocking support
• Create developer-facing documentation, examples, quick starts, reference implementations, and sample applications.
• Support integrations with AWS-based services and deployment environments.
• Partner with product and platform teams to reduce adoption friction and improve usability.
• Design tooling that supports both traditional application developers and AI/agentic system builders.
• Establish standards for SDK structure, release management, backward compatibility, and versioning.
• Gather feedback from internal developers and iterate on the SDK and DX experience accordingly.
• Help ensure the developer experience reflects prompt engineering and context engineering considerations where relevant.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, SDK development, developer tools, or developer experience roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud technologies.
• Experience building libraries, SDKs, wrappers, or integration tooling for APIs and services.
• Strong understanding of developer workflows, usability, and adoption friction.
• Experience with documentation, sample code, and developer support materials.
• Ability to work closely with API teams, platform engineers, and product stakeholders.
• Familiarity with data context, semantic systems, or metadata-driven platforms.
• Working knowledge of agentic AI, prompt engineering, and context engineering concepts.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with programming languages commonly used for SDKs and developer tools such as Python, TypeScript, Java, or Go.
• Familiarity with AWS services such as API Gateway, Lambda, ECS/EKS, IAM, CloudWatch, S3, or Cognito.
• Experience supporting AI-enabled or context-driven applications.
• Familiarity with ontologies, OWL, RDF, knowledge graphs, MCP, A2A, or timbr-like technologies.
• Background in developer relations, internal developer platforms, or platform enablement.
• Experience with testing frameworks, packaging, release pipelines, and observability for SDKs.

What Success Looks Like

Success in this role means:

• developers can integrate with platform services quickly and confidently
• SDKs reduce complexity and improve consistency across use cases
• documentation and examples make adoption straightforward
• the developer experience is stable, intuitive, and production-ready
• the SDK supports both enterprise applications and AI/agentic workflows
• adoption grows because the integration experience is easy and well-supported

Who we are:
We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for:
Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

#HYDIT2025

Required Skills:

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloud Technology, Context Mapping, Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Developer Relations, Java (Programming Language), Knowledge Graph, Metadata Management, Ontology, Programming Languages, Prompt Engineering, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Kit (SDK), Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Designs, System Integration, Testing, TypeScript

Preferred Skills:

Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Cognito, API Gateway, AWS Lambda, GraphQL (Query Language), IAM Tools, Microservices Architecture, Python (Programming Language), TypoScript

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:

No

Travel Requirements:

No Travel Required

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Not Applicable

Shift:

Not Indicated

Valid Driving License:

No

Hazardous Material(s):

n/a

Job Posting End Date:

07/3/2026

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