Senior Software Engineer, Agent Platform
Build and operate the APIs, services, observability, evaluation tooling, SDKs, and CLI that enable external organizations to develop reliable AI agents. The role requires 8+ years of software engineering experience spanning distributed systems, cloud tooling, production ownership, and modern AI workflows.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve platform APIs for agent registration, authentication, secrets, deployment, runtime, events, discovery, and evaluation.
- Build observability features including logs, conversation history, execution traces, metrics, and failure reporting.
- Make evaluation a first-class platform capability by supporting eval definition and execution, version comparison, quality tracking, and regression detection.
- Build and operate services for identity and authorization, runtime orchestration, deployment, event routing, and agent registration.
- Build and operate production agents, including prompt and tool design, quality and cost tuning, and ongoing reliability.
- Identify recurring customer-work patterns and turn them into platform features.
- Own developer experience across onboarding, quickstarts, SDKs, CLI tooling, example agents, API documentation, and local development.
- Collaborate with front-end engineering, product management, customers, and research and partnerships teams.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Experience across web services, distributed systems, data pipelines, and cloud tooling.
- Track record of shipping products to external users and owning them in production.
- Strong opinions about API design and a preference for simple designs.
- Willingness to write documentation as part of the development process.
- Fluency with modern AI tools in your workflow.
- Ability to adapt quickly to evolving LLMs and agent architectures.
- Clear technical communication with engineers and non-engineers.
Nice to Have
- Experience building developer platforms, SDKs, or related tooling.
Compensation
- Base salary range: $146,880–$220,320.
- Generous bonus plans are included in the compensation package.
Skills
API Design, Web Services, Distributed Systems, Data Pipelines, Cloud Tooling, SDKs, Cli Tooling, Observability, Evaluation Tooling, Identity And Authorization, Runtime Orchestration, Event Routing, LLMs, Agent Architectures, Documentation
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