2 months ago
Base Salary
$205k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operate core syndi-api runtime surfaces including the agent loop, tool execution and registry, memory, and context management.
- Grow the evaluation system with offline gates and online detector and judge evaluations based on production traces.
- Own production observability, incident response, and reliability for the customer-facing agent surface.
- Review product teams’ tool wrappers and evaluations and evolve the GET /tools registry and drift-detection contract.
- Clarify, design, and implement compliance and legal requirements for Syndi.
- Collaborate with product teams from API design through evaluation sign-off and carry the on-call pager for shipped systems.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience building production backend systems.
- Deep comfort with Python, relational stores, and cloud infrastructure, with experience using GCP and Kubernetes.
- Experience building LLM-powered systems in production, such as agent loops, tool-calling integrations, RAG, or evaluation infrastructure.
- Ability to design for operability, including legal compliance, tracing, evaluations, and kill switches.
- Ability to own a technical domain with light supervision, propose direction through written API specifications, incorporate review, ship, and support deployed systems.
- Strong written communication for design documentation and cross-team pull request review.
- Preferred experience with platform/product relationships, SSE or streaming systems, compliance-adjacent engineering, data minimization, auditability, or prior Staff-level scope.
Benefits
- Competitive salary targeted at $205,000-$225,000 USD per year or $180,000-$200,000 CAD per year.
- Syndio equity.
- Flexible vacation policy, including up to 20 days of PTO in Canada, plus paid sick and safe time, compassion leave, and voting leave.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage; Syndio pays 90% of employee premiums and 50% for dependents.
- Company-paid life insurance and disability coverage.
- Remote-first work in the United States and Alberta; Calgary office availability is non-mandatory.
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About Syndio
Syndio builds a pay governance and compensation intelligence platform for HR, compensation, and finance teams at large enterprises. Its SaaS tools provide pay equity analysis, transparency reporting, and AI-driven pay recommendations embedded in workflows. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Seattle, the privately held company reports that over 350 companies use its products to guide decisions for more than 10 million employees across 100 countries.