Senior Software Engineer, Internal Tools
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative3 months ago
Base Salary
$190k - $238k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the design and end-to-end delivery of individual systems, from business stakeholder scoping through production deployment.
- Build production applications used daily by business teams.
- Design and build AI features, including custom agents, workflows, and knowledge and retrieval infrastructure over connected enterprise data.
- Partner with the tech lead on architecture decisions and contribute perspectives on tradeoffs, patterns, and reuse.
- Contribute to cloud infrastructure, deployment, observability, and reliability as the team’s scope develops.
- Partner with senior business stakeholders and embedded engineers across the organization.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building production software systems as a senior individual contributor.
- Strong full-stack engineering fundamentals, including production applications, backend services, and integration layers.
- Direct production experience building LLM-based applications, custom agents, or agentic workflows.
- Strong enterprise SaaS API integration experience, including authentication, rate limits, schema drift, and failure modes.
- Working fluency with MCP, LLM tool/function calling, current agent frameworks, and retrieval or knowledge infrastructure such as knowledge graphs, vector stores, and RAG.
- Ability to work through ambiguity and evolving requirements.
- Strong communication and stakeholder skills for technical discussions with business partners.
- Experience in enterprise IT, business systems, or platform engineering is preferred.
- Experience operating AWS and Terraform for production systems is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid role requiring onsite work at least 60% of the working month, approximately three days per week
- 401(k) employer match
- Paid time off to volunteer
- Funding for select family-forming benefits
- Relocation support
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About Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is a philanthropy that funds research and builds open-source software and datasets for scientists and educators. Founded in 2015 by Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, it is headquartered in Redwood City, CA. CZI provides grants and partnerships across biomedicine, AI-enabled science, rare disease, and education, and supports efforts such as the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub and open science infrastructure rather than commercial products.