Sonatype

Staff Software Engineer - Agentic First

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3 days ago
Remote, ColombiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Drive the technical design of major agentic-first subsystems, including service architecture, data models, and agent/tool integrations.
  • Lead major initiatives from ambiguous requirements through technical design, multi-team execution, rollout, and long-term operability.
  • Define evaluations, test harnesses, guardrails, observability, and review workflows for agent-generated code.
  • Establish internal practices, tooling, playbooks, and rituals for agentic software development and train senior engineers.
  • Own performance, reliability, and security requirements, including defenses against software supply chain threats.
  • Partner with Product, Security Research, UX, and Support leaders to translate customer needs into shippable technical plans.
  • Mentor senior engineers, conduct design reviews, shape the technical roadmap, and help set the engineering hiring bar.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of professional software development experience.
  • Track record of leading multi-quarter technical initiatives spanning multiple teams or services.
  • Hands-on experience designing, running, and scaling long-running multi-agent systems in production.
  • Experience with agent orchestration, MCP tooling, shared context and memory, agent handoffs, and evaluation harnesses.
  • Strong experience with Java, AWS, Azure, or GCP, and large-scale distributed systems.
  • Experience with performance tuning, data-intensive services, and production operability at scale.
  • Working knowledge of software supply chain security, including SBOM formats, software composition analysis, provenance, signing, vulnerability analysis, and package ecosystem attack patterns.
  • Experience defining or leading agentic engineering practices, internal rollouts, publications, open-source work, or similar contributions.
  • Ability to make independent product decisions and drive scope, trade-offs, and sequencing.

Benefits

  • Parental leave policy.
  • Paid Volunteer Time Off.
  • Diversity and inclusion working groups.
  • Flexible working practices.
  • Equal-opportunity employment and accommodation support for candidates with disabilities or special needs.
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