Sonatype

Staff Software Engineer - Agentic First

Sonatype
Apply
2 months ago
Hyderābād, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Architect and lead agentic-first subsystems, including service architecture, data models, agent integrations, orchestration, testing, and review workflows.
  • Own major product initiatives from ambiguous problem definition through technical design, multi-team execution, rollout, and long-term operability.
  • Define evaluation harnesses, guardrails, observability, test practices, and review rituals for software developed through agent workflows.
  • Establish internal agentic engineering practices, tooling, playbooks, and training for Senior engineers.
  • Own performance, reliability, security, and other non-functional requirements for the product area, including software supply chain threat mitigation.
  • Partner with Product, Security Research, UX, and Support leaders and mentor engineers through design reviews and technical decision-making.

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 multi-agent systems in production, including agent orchestration, MCP tooling, shared context and memory, handoffs, and evaluation harnesses.
  • Experience defining or leading agentic engineering practices, internal rollouts, publications, open-source work, or similar contributions to the field.
  • Strong Java, cloud, and large-scale distributed systems experience, including performance tuning, data-intensive services, and production operability.
  • Working knowledge of software supply chain security, including SBOM formats, software composition analysis, SLSA provenance, Sigstore/cosign signing, vulnerability analysis, and package ecosystem attack patterns.
  • Ability to make product decisions independently and lead scope, trade-offs, sequencing, technical direction, and mentorship.

Benefits

  • Parental leave policy.
  • Diversity and inclusion working groups.
  • Paid volunteer time off.
  • Flexible working practices.
  • Equal-opportunity employment and accommodation support are provided.
Sonatype

About Sonatype

501-1,000 employees
Contact me