Senior Software Engineer – Agent Systems
Role Overview
The Agent Systems team builds internal AI-powered agents that interact with company systems to increase execution speed through automation, inference, and workflow orchestration.
The work combines AI, backend systems, and applied product engineering; prototypes move toward production with a high reliability bar.
The engineer partners with product, infrastructure, and internal operations to deploy agent capabilities.
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The team and opportunity
The Agent Systems team builds internal AI-powered agents that interact with company systems to increase execution speed through automation, inference, and workflow orchestration.
The work combines AI, backend systems, and applied product engineering; prototypes move toward production with a high reliability bar.
The engineer partners with product, infrastructure, and internal operations to deploy agent capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Build AI-powered agents that automate internal workflows and decision paths.
- Design inference pipelines reasoning over user interactions across internal systems.
- Prototype and validate agent behaviors, then productionize useful approaches.
- Architect backend services integrating internal APIs and data sources.
- Define safe, observable, controllable agent-execution patterns.
- Identify automation opportunities with cross-functional partners.
- Improve speed, reliability, and signal quality as usage scales.
- Contribute foundational design decisions for a 0→1 agent platform.
Required qualifications
- At least 5 years building and shipping production software systems.
- Strong backend fundamentals in APIs, distributed systems, data modeling, and reliability.
- Experience building full-stack systems, including backend and occasional frontend work.
- Production hands-on experience with AI/ML systems, LLMs, or inference pipelines.
- Ability to prototype rapidly while preserving a path to production-grade architecture.
- Systems thinking across orchestration, failure modes, and observability; comfort in ambiguous 0→1 environments with high ownership.
Nice to have
- Experience with agent-based systems or autonomous workflows.
- Familiarity with prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, or model performance tuning.
- Experience integrating enterprise systems such as CRM, support tools, or analytics platforms.
- Background in developer platforms or internal tooling.
- Experience designing AI guardrails, sandboxing, or safety layers.
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