# Staff Software Engineer
**Company:** [Traba](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/traba)
**Location:** New York, NY, San Francisco, CA
**Salary:** $240K-$300K
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Python, TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, Kafka, RabbitMQ, LLMs, Agent Systems, Distributed Systems, APIs, Orchestration, Retrieval, Evals, Observability
**Posted:** 2026-06-29
> Build and lead Traba's agentic platform as a founding member of the Agents team. Architect orchestration, evals, model strategy, and integrations for autonomous AI agents in industrial supply chain workflows. Requires 7+ years engineering experience including 2+ years production LLM/agent systems, plus customer immersion and 0-to-1 leadership.
## Job Description
## Responsibilities
- Architect Traba's agent platform end-to-end: orchestration runtime, eval and observability stack, integration layer to internal and customer systems (WMS/TMS/ERP), and patterns every agent is built on.
- Own foundational technical decisions: model strategy, harness design, retrieval and memory architecture, tool/MCP surface, and quality measurement.
- Spend time in the field with customers and operators, translating observations into durable product and repeatable deployment patterns.
- Build evaluation as an engineering discipline: datasets, graders, regression suites, and experimentation tooling.
- Hire and mentor engineers; set the standard for quality.
- Partner with CTO, product, and ops leadership on the multi-year platform roadmap.

## Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering, with 2+ years of hands-on production work on LLM- or agent-based systems.
- Deep expertise in Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js.
- Track record designing distributed systems, APIs, and data models on PostgreSQL and modern messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or equivalent).
- Demonstrated ownership of a non-trivial production agent system: orchestration, tool use, retrieval, evals, observability, and cost/latency tuning.
- Background in vertical AI / AI-agent company, forward-deployed engineering role, or AI-native data company.
- History of leading 0-to-1 builds in early-stage environments.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Supply chain, logistics, or industrial exposure.
- Experience with WMS quirks, shift cadence, exception handling.
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