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Senior Software Engineer – Agent Systems

Kraken· Engineering
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Remote$127.2k - $254.4k + equity + bonusFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer focused on AI-powered agent systems to automate internal workflows and build a 0→1 agentPlatform. Role involves designing inference pipelines, prototyping, productionizing, and collaborating across product, infrastructure, and internal operations to increase internal speed of execution through automation and orchestration.

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship AI-powered agent systems that automate internal workflows and decision paths
  • Design and implement inference pipelines that reason over user interactions across internal systems
  • Prototype quickly to validate agent behaviors, then productionize what proves valuable
  • Architect backend services that integrate with multiple internal APIs and data sources
  • Define patterns for safe, observable, and controllable agent execution
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to identify high-leverage automation opportunities
  • Improve system speed, reliability, and signal quality as usage scales
  • Contribute to foundational design decisions for a 0→1 agent platform

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience building and shipping production software systems
  • Strong backend engineering fundamentals (APIs, distributed systems, data modeling, reliability)
  • Experience building fullstack systems, with comfort working across backend and occasional frontend surfaces
  • Hands-on experience working with AI/ML systems, LLMs, or inference pipelines in production
  • Ability to prototype rapidly while maintaining a clear path to production-grade architecture
  • Strong systems thinking — able to reason about orchestration, failure modes, and observability
  • Comfort operating in ambiguous, 0→1 environments with high ownership

Skills

Required:Backend engineeringFullstack capabilitiesAI/ML systems & inferencePrototyping to production

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Bonus
  • Wellness allowance (US)
  • Medical, dental, vision and 401(k) (US)
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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