Senior Software Engineer, Internal Tools
Chan Zuckerberg InitiativeBase 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
Categories
H1B sponsorship
Sponsorship for this role is unconfirmed.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s past filings provide context. They do not guarantee sponsorship for a current opening.
H1B petition approvals by fiscal year
- FY 20252
0 initial/new employment approvals · 2 changes of employer
- FY 20243
0 initial/new employment approvals · 2 changes of employer
Counts are petitions, including continuing employment and amendments, rather than unique hires. Source: USCIS
Job fields receiving H1B certifications
Partial fiscal year, through Q3
- Database Administrators1 · 50%
- Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products1 · 50%
Job fields come from government occupation codes, rather than internal departments. Counts are certified Labor Condition Applications, not visa approvals or unique hires. Withdrawn and denied cases are excluded.
Source: US Department of LaborMatched government employer: CHAN ZUCKERBERG INITIATIVE LLC
About Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
We are working at the intersection of AI and biology to advance science, build powerful technologies and transform health. Through bold investments in cutting-edge research, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and innovative tools and data, we aim to help cure, prevent and manage all diseases by the end of this century. Our work brings together scientists, engineers, technologists and AI experts to accelerate discovery and empower the global scientific community.