9 hours 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 supporting mission-critical automation.
- Evolve the AI integration client ecosystem and enable secure connections to external tools, data sources, and enterprise systems.
- Design backend services and high-throughput, low-latency APIs for agent workflows and cross-system orchestration.
- Define identity, authentication, and trust-boundary strategies for OAuth, API keys, and service-to-service integrations.
- Partner with product and engineering leaders on roadmap, technical strategy, and durable platform capabilities.
- Lead reliability and production excellence through metrics, SLOs, SLAs, observability, resilience, incident readiness, and performance optimization.
- Raise engineering standards through architecture reviews, design standards, testing strategy, and mentorship.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience building and operating production backend systems with TypeScript, Deno, Node.js, or Bun.
- Strong experience designing and shipping API-driven platform services and distributed systems, including 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 lifecycles, secret management, and least-privilege access.
- Cloud-native experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, including Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, 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.js, Python ecosystems, and PostgreSQL; Python experience is a plus.
- Ability to lead through ambiguity, partner cross-functionally, mentor engineers, make technical decisions, and own delivery from design through production.
- The role may be leveled from Senior to Staff based on architectural impact and leadership.
Benefits
- Hybrid work based out of WRITER's San Francisco, New York City, or Seattle hubs.
- Generous paid time off and company holidays.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
- Sixteen weeks of paid parental leave for all parents.
- Fertility and family planning support, flexible spending accounts, dependent FSA options, and eligible-plan HSA contributions.
- Early-detection cancer testing through Galleri.
- Annual wellness and learning and development stipends.
- Company-wide and team off-sites, company stock options, and a 401(k).
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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.