Senior Software Engineer, Agents
Build scalable backend services and infrastructure for AI agent orchestration, tool use, workflows, memory, and state management. The role requires extensive backend and distributed-systems experience, production-scale operations, and proficiency with Go, Python, Rust, cloud platforms, and containers.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design and build backend services that power AI agent orchestration and execution.
- Develop scalable APIs and platform capabilities for tool use, workflow orchestration, memory, and state management.
- Build reliable infrastructure for long-running, distributed AI workflows.
- Partner with product, research, and platform engineering teams to bring new agent capabilities into production.
- Improve platform reliability, observability, and performance as customer workloads scale.
- Evaluate and strengthen technical architecture, engineering processes, and developer tooling.
- Maintain high software quality through testing, automation, continuous delivery, and proactive technical debt management.
- Mentor engineers on system design, distributed systems, and backend engineering best practices.
Requirements
- Extensive experience building scalable backend systems using Go, Python, Rust, or similar languages.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, asynchronous processing, APIs, and cloud-native application architecture.
- Experience designing and operating production services at scale.
- Hands-on experience building backend platforms, developer tools, or infrastructure products.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms and container technologies.
- Proven ability to own large technical initiatives from architecture through production.
- Commitment to software quality, automated testing, observability, and continuous delivery.
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Ability to thrive in fast-moving, ambiguous environments while balancing technical excellence with product impact.
Compensation
- Anticipated annual base salary: $180,000–$250,000 USD.
- Eligible roles may also receive a discretionary bonus, meaningful equity, and comprehensive benefits.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and eligible dependents.
- RSUs.
- 401(k) matching in the U.S. and pension contributions in the U.K.
- Unlimited PTO, company holidays, and floating holidays.
- Two-week company-wide winter break.
- Paid parental and family leave.
- Annual learning and development allowance.
- Wellness and work-from-home stipends.
- Four-week paid sabbatical after four years of service.
- Flexible schedules and a hybrid work model for office-based teams.
- Complimentary meals at office hubs.
Skills
Go, Python, Rust, Distributed Systems, Asynchronous Processing, APIs, AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Observability, Continuous Delivery, Automated Testing, Cloud-Native Architecture
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