Decagon

Staff Software Engineer, Agent Orchestration

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6 months ago

Base Salary

$200k - $400k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and evolve agent harnesses for different product experiences.
  • Build core runtime systems, including AOP execution and multi-model orchestration.
  • Develop routing, planning, and tool-invocation control-plane logic with strong safety guarantees.
  • Optimize agent systems for latency, reliability, and production correctness.
  • Analyze real-world failures and use data to drive iterative improvements.
  • Build and operate online experimentation and contribute to offline evaluation frameworks.
  • Improve observability, testing, and simulation systems for safe, measurable progress.
  • Contribute to voice and real-time systems, including transcription pipelines, turn-taking, and latency improvements.
  • Adapt orchestration systems as model capabilities evolve.

Requirements

  • Strong experience building distributed systems or backend platforms in production environments.
  • Experience owning systems end to end, from design through production and iteration.
  • Familiarity with experimentation, evaluation, or data-driven product improvement loops.
  • Track record of improving system reliability, performance, and observability.
  • Ability to debug complex systems and identify root causes of failures.
  • Comfort working in ambiguous, fast-moving environments with rapid iteration cycles.
  • Experience with agent harnesses, orchestration layers, or execution frameworks is a plus.
  • Experience thinking in terms of control planes, feedback loops, and system-level optimization is a plus.
  • Strong focus on production quality, reliability, safety, and scalability is a plus.

Benefits

  • In-office work arrangement.
  • Take-what-you-need vacation policy; UK employees receive 25 statutory leave days.
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits for employees and families.
  • Life insurance and disability benefits.
  • Retirement plan, such as a 401(k) or pension.
  • Parental leave.
  • Fertility and family-building benefits through Carrot.
  • Daily lunches and snacks in the office.
Decagon

About Decagon

501-1,000 employees

Decagon is the leading conversational AI platform empowering every brand to deliver concierge customer experiences. Our technology enables industry-defining enterprises like Avis Budget Group, Chime, Oura Health, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, and Hunter Douglas to deploy AI agents that power personalized, deeply satisfying interactions across voice, chat, email, SMS, and every other channel. We’re building a future where customer experiences are being redefined from support tickets and hold music to faster resolutions, richer conversations, and deeper relationships.