Senior / Staff Software Engineer
San MateoFull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Senior or Staff Software Engineer (Technical Lead) responsible for leading design and development of core backend and infrastructure powering autonomous research agents in a production environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of core backend and infrastructure systems
- Own projects from architecture and design through production deployment
- Write clear technical design documents and drive engineering decisions
- Build and maintain 24/7 production systems supporting autonomous research agents
- Partner closely with research teams to productionize experimental workflows
- Guide and collaborate with engineers on system design and implementation
- Improve system reliability, scalability, and observability
- Help shape the technical direction of the platform
Qualifications
- Experience leading complex engineering projects or technical initiatives
- Experience acting as a technical lead or guiding small teams of engineers
- Strong software design and architecture skills
- Demonstrable experience writing clear technical design documents
- Strong experience with Python
- Experience building or operating backend or production infrastructure
- Experience working in 24/7 production environments
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or similar cloud infrastructure
- Strong understanding of software evolution, maintainability, and system design tradeoffs
- Ability to collaborate effectively with both engineers and researchers
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field
- Typically 5+ years of experience building and operating production software systems, including ownership of projects from design through deployment
Skills
Required:Backend architecture and designPythonCloud infrastructure (GCP or similar)
Benefits
- Our comp is competitive against major LLM frontier lab packages
- Unlimited PTO and flexible working arrangements
- Conference attendance and publication support
Last updated Jul 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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