3 months ago
Base Salary
$170k - $276k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and operate the agent execution runtime for scheduling, state management, and lifecycle management of long-running workflows
- Build multi-agent coordination capabilities covering task handoff, agent memory, tool use, and workflow branching
- Develop context-window management and session-persistence layers for stateful agent interactions
- Build prompt engineering tools for prompt versioning, testing, and evaluation at scale
- Support AI-assisted coding workflows through IDE integrations, local-first development environments, and fast iteration loops
- Own Agentic Platform services, including AWS or OCI provisioning, scaling, cost management, and reliability
- Provision infrastructure with Terraform and package and deploy Kubernetes applications with Helm
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation and take pager responsibility for owned services
- Define SLOs, lead incident response and blameless post-mortems, and drive reliability improvements
- Implement observability through distributed tracing, structured logging, metrics dashboards, and alerting
- Set technical direction, make architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, design, and engineering partners
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional, hands-on, full-time software engineering experience in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering
- Hands-on experience operating production services in AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Azure, or GCP, including compute, networking, managed services, IAM, and cost management
- End-to-end production service ownership, including on-call, incident response, SLO definition, and post-mortems
- Deep understanding of fault tolerance, consistency, observability, and scalability in cloud-native distributed systems
- Strong proficiency in at least one backend language used for systems work: Go, Python, Rust, or Java
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Professional proficiency in Go is strongly preferred
- Experience with Terraform and Helm is strongly preferred
- Experience with PostgreSQL and Redis or Pub/Sub patterns is strongly preferred
- Experience with MCP server design and integration is strongly preferred
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or equivalent container and orchestration technologies is strongly preferred
- Familiarity with Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, Windsurf, or similar AI-assisted development tools is strongly preferred
- Experience with LLM-as-judge frameworks, behavioral regression testing, and golden dataset management is strongly preferred
- Hands-on experience building or operating AI agent systems, including multi-agent orchestration, tool use, memory systems, or agent evaluation frameworks, is strongly preferred
- Open-source contributions or community engagement are strongly preferred
Benefits
- Remote-first work with flexibility and offices in Seattle and Paris
- Quarterly Whaleness Days and an end-of-year Whaleness break
- Home office setup
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment
- Technology stipend of $100 USD net per month
- PTO plan
- Training stipend for conferences, courses, and classes
- Equity
- Medical benefits, retirement benefits, and holidays varying by country
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