5 days ago
Seattle, WA, USA +2 moreSenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$132k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver secure, scalable AI integration platforms connecting enterprise systems and powering mission-critical automation.
- Evolve the AI integration client ecosystem for secure connections to external tools, data sources, and enterprise systems.
- Design backend services and high-throughput, low-latency APIs supporting agent workflows and cross-system orchestration.
- Set technical direction for OAuth, API key, service-to-service authentication, identity, and trust boundaries.
- Shape product roadmaps and technical strategy with product and cross-functional engineering leaders.
- Define and enforce SLOs and SLAs, improve observability and resilience, support incident readiness, and optimize performance.
- Lead architecture reviews, design standards, testing strategy, technical decisions, mentorship, and delivery through production.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production backend systems with TypeScript, Deno, Node.js, or Bun.
- Experience designing and shipping API-driven platform services and distributed systems using microservices, event-driven patterns, and secure service-to-service communication.
- Hands-on experience building AI integration layers such as MCP clients and servers, tool orchestration, external API connectors, and authentication mediation.
- Deep knowledge of OAuth2/OIDC, API keys, token lifecycle management, secret management, and least-privilege access.
- Cloud-native experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, including containerized workloads with Docker and Kubernetes and production operations.
- Experience with observability and reliability engineering, including service metrics, SLOs, SLAs, alerting, incident response, and performance tuning.
- Backend experience with modern server frameworks and data systems such as TypeScript/Node or Python ecosystems and PostgreSQL; Python is a plus but not required.
- Ability to lead through ambiguity, collaborate cross-functionally, mentor engineers, drive technical decisions, and own delivery from design through production.
Benefits
- Hybrid work from WRITER hubs in San Francisco, New York City, or Seattle.
- US full-time employees receive generous PTO and company holidays.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage are available for employees and families.
- Paid parental leave provides 16 weeks for all parents.
- Fertility and family planning support is provided.
- Early-detection cancer testing is available through Galleri.
- Flexible spending accounts, dependent FSAs, and eligible-plan health savings accounts with company contributions are offered.
- Annual wellness and learning and development stipends are provided.
- Company-wide and team off-sites are offered.
- Company stock options and a 401k are included.
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About WRITER
WRITER builds an enterprise generative AI platform for creating, deploying, and supervising AI agents grounded in company data and powered by proprietary LLMs. It sells subscriptions and services to large organizations, with customers such as Accenture, Marriott, Uber, Mars, and Vanguard. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company raised a Series C in 2024.