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Senior Software Engineer

Senior engineer building distributed LLM agent infrastructure. Requires 7+ years experience designing and deploying production distributed services.

About the job

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and deploy distributed services in a production environment
  • Act as primary individual contributor on medium to large projects
  • Debug complex issues and serve as a technical resource for peers
  • Work with parallelized agent systems handling 10^5+ concurrent agents

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience as a software engineer
  • Proven track record as primary contributor to multiple medium to large projects
  • Experience designing and deploying distributed services in production
  • Strong ability to convey complex concepts and facilitate technical discussions

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience with Go, Redis, PubSub, RPC, Postgres, S3, Temporal

Work Arrangement

  • 5 days per week in-office in San Francisco

Skills

Go, Redis, Pub/Sub, Rpc, Postgres, S3, Temporal, Distributed Systems

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