Decagon

Staff Software Engineer, Agent Orchestration

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9 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 control-plane logic for routing, planning, and tool invocation with strong safety guarantees
  • Optimize agent systems for latency, reliability, and production correctness
  • Analyze real-world failures and use data for iterative improvements
  • Build and operate online experimentation and contribute to offline evaluation frameworks
  • Improve observability, testing, and simulation systems
  • Contribute to voice and real-time systems, including transcription pipelines, turn-taking, and latency improvements
  • Adapt orchestration systems as model capabilities evolve
  • Collaborate with Research, Infrastructure, and Product teams to ship improvements safely and at scale

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
  • Experience with agent harnesses, orchestration layers, or execution frameworks is preferred
  • Interest in control planes, feedback loops, system-level optimization, and production-quality intelligent systems is preferred

Benefits

  • Take-what-you-need vacation policy; UK employees receive 25 days of statutory leave
  • 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
  • In-office work arrangement
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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.