Senior/Staff Software Engineer (Platform and Execution Model)
Trase Systems2 hours ago
Remote, United States or Seattle, WA, USASenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$180k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and own core execution-model components including state machines, lifecycle management, resource models, and failure semantics.
- Build reliable distributed systems that handle retries, restarts, partial failures, concurrency, and deterministic execution.
- Develop platform APIs and SDKs connecting workflows, agents, tools, and product surfaces, including versioning and compatibility.
- Implement idempotency, deterministic replay, compensating actions, data integrity, concurrency controls, rate limits, backpressure, sharding, partitioning, and workload isolation.
- Build security and governance capabilities including RBAC/ABAC, policy enforcement, auditability, and lineage.
- Deliver observability through distributed tracing, structured logs, metrics, evaluation hooks, and explainable agent-action trails.
- Own quality through design reviews, testing strategy, performance baselines, SLOs, incident response, and postmortems.
- Mentor engineers, contribute to design reviews, and establish engineering patterns across the platform.
- Staff-level candidates will lead architecture across teams and establish engineering standards.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building distributed or platform systems, including significant architecture experience across teams or domains.
- 4+ years owning mission-critical runtimes or workflow/orchestration systems.
- Deep expertise in durable execution, including state machines, event sourcing, saga or compensation patterns, idempotency, and delivery semantics.
- Production experience with security and governance, including authentication, RBAC, auditing, and policy.
- Hands-on observability experience, including trace correlation across asynchronous boundaries.
- Strong systems design experience across storage, queues, schedulers, event-driven architectures, and performance tuning under load.
- Expertise in at least one modern language such as Go, Rust, Java, or TypeScript, plus cloud-native stacks.
- Experience operating in regulated or high-assurance environments and a strong focus on correctness, clarity, and documentation.
- Strong technical judgment and ability to influence design decisions across engineering areas.
- Ability to incorporate advanced LLM capabilities into system design and platform architecture where appropriate.
- Preferred experience with Temporal, Cadence, AWS Step Functions, Argo, Airflow, serverless runtimes, OPA, secrets or KMS, PII/PHI controls, ML/LLM evaluation frameworks, tool/plugin architectures, HIPAA, audit readiness, or multi-tenant isolation.
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
- 14 weeks of paid maternity and paternity leave at normal pay.
- Unlimited PTO with management approval.
- Professional development and continued learning opportunities.
- Optional 401(k), FSA, and equity incentives.
- Mental health benefits through Tara Mind.
- Full-time role with potential for rapid career advancement.
- Some travel to customers may be required.
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About Trase Systems
Trase Systems builds an enterprise platform for creating, deploying, and operating autonomous AI agents in regulated sectors such as healthcare, national security, and energy. It sells software and services that let large organizations integrate agent applications into existing systems with governance, security, and compliance controls. The company was co-founded in 2023 by Joe Laws and Grant Verstandig and is privately held.