Principal Engineer, Agent Platform

Join our team as a Principal Engineer, where we're focused on graduating AI from interesting demos to indispensable products. You will architect and build the core distributed systems that provide the reliable, scalable foundation for this mission. This is a role for hands-on technical leaders who want to solve our hardest infrastructure challenges and build a platform that's trusted to make critical business decisions.

Key Responsibilities

Architect and Build : Design, develop, and operate the foundational backend services that form the backbone of our platform, ensuring they meet rigorous standards for performance and reliability.

Technical Leadership : Provide technical leadership and mentorship through exemplary code, design documents, and thoughtful code reviews. You will drive best practices in system design and raise the bar for the entire team.

Founder-level Accountability and Impact : Take ownership of complex technical projects from conception to deployment. We are looking for engineers who are focused on delivering pragmatic, robust solutions.

Solve Complex Problems : Tackle our most challenging technical issues in distributed computing, large-scale data processing, and overall system architecture.

Qualifications

10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a proven track record of designing and building complex, large-scale distributed systems.

Deep expertise in backend development , including system architecture, data modeling, and API design. You take pride in writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code.

A strong bias for action and a pragmatic approach to problem-solving. You have a passion for the craft and a drive to ship high-quality, impactful code.

Strong proficiency in at least one backend language (e.g., Python, Go, Java, C++). Experience with or interest in TypeScript is a plus .

Experience with modern cloud and data infrastructure is essential (e.g., Google Cloud, Docker / Kubernetes, Postgres), but we value strong fundamentals above specific tool experience.

Our Team

We are a rapidly growing startup with a high-performance engineering culture that emphasizes personal accountability, autonomy, learning, and growth. Led by experienced founders, our approach is design-centric, underpinned by market analysis, user research, and a dedication to scientific thinking and automation. We value intelligence, respectful collaboration, and SHIPPING CODE!