Metropolis

Senior Software Engineer, AI Agentic Platform

Metropolis
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Base Salary

$177k - $216k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build production-grade agentic platform infrastructure, including orchestration pipelines, tool-use abstractions, MCP integrations, and context and memory management.
  • Architect high-throughput, low-latency LLM inference routing, caching strategies, and semantic search interfaces.
  • Establish evaluation, tracing, observability, and debugging frameworks for agent execution and accuracy.
  • Build developer tooling, agent SDKs, and CI/CD automation for safe deployment of autonomous AI agents.
  • Implement guardrails, rate limiting, sandboxing, and security policies for model execution and tool access.
  • Make architectural decisions involving service boundaries, data consistency, multi-agent communication, and system reliability.
  • Set technical standards, evaluate emerging AI tooling, and mentor engineering peers.

Requirements

  • At least 6 years of backend software engineering experience focused on distributed systems, platform infrastructure, and high-load production environments.
  • At least 2 years of hands-on experience architecting and deploying agentic AI systems, LLM orchestration frameworks, or AI platform tooling.
  • Strong proficiency in Python, Java, or TypeScript, with production experience in asynchronous concurrency, API design, and performance tuning.
  • Production experience with agentic frameworks and protocols such as LangGraph, Anthropic MCP, Google ADK, AutoGen, A2A, or LlamaIndex.
  • Expertise in microservices architecture, Kubernetes, and AWS.
  • Experience with observability and LLMOps, including metrics, distributed tracing, structured logging, and agent-run debugging.
  • Knowledge of relational databases, vector databases, Kafka, SQS, and caching patterns.
  • Experience using AI-powered development tools such as Claude Code or GitHub Copilot.
  • Strong technical communication and ability to document complex AI architectures and collaborate cross-functionally.
  • Advanced degree in computer science, machine learning, or a related technical field is a plus.
  • Experience with customized agent harnesses, model fine-tuning, RLHF/RLAIF optimization loops, security compliance, open-source agent frameworks, MCP servers, or technical writing is a plus.

Benefits

  • Office-first work arrangement requiring employees to be onsite at least four days per week.
  • Healthcare benefits, 401(k), short- and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, stock option plan, and bonus plans may be available.
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