Senior/Staff Software Engineer – Platform and Execution Model

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Virginia, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Develop and take ownership of essential components of Trase OS, the unified platform that facilitates Trase implementations in regulated settings.

• Create and implement well-structured, robust abstractions for the platform's execution framework.

• Ensure accuracy and reliability in workflow execution.

• Convert changing product requirements into a cohesive platform architecture.

• Construct dependable distributed systems capable of handling retries, restarts, partial failures, and concurrent executions.

• Design platform APIs and SDKs that connect workflows, agents, tools, and product interfaces; oversee versioning and compatibility.

• Ensure correctness through idempotency, deterministic replays, compensating actions, and data integrity.

• Engineer reliability at scale by implementing concurrency controls, rate limits, backpressure, sharding/partitioning, and workload isolation.

• Integrate security and governance as foundational elements through RBAC/ABAC, policy enforcement, detailed auditing, and lineage tracking.

• Provide observability via distributed tracing, structured logs, metrics, evaluation hooks, and a clear trail of agent activities.

• Maintain quality through design reviews, testing strategies, performance baselines, SLOs, incident responses, and postmortems.

• Mentor engineers and cultivate strong engineering practices throughout the platform.

• For candidates at the staff level, lead architecture initiatives across teams, set engineering standards, and mentor fellow engineers.

• Occasional travel to client sites may be necessary.

⛳️ Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in building distributed/platform systems, with significant experience in defining architecture across teams or domains.

• 4+ years of experience managing mission-critical runtimes or workflow/orchestration systems.

• Extensive expertise in durable execution, including state machines, event sourcing, saga/compensation, idempotency, and exactly/at-least-once semantics.

• Demonstrated success with security and governance in production environments, covering authentication, RBAC, auditing, and policy enforcement.

• Practical experience with observability tools, such as Grafana or similar, and trace correlation across asynchronous boundaries.

• Strong systems design skills in areas such as storage, queues, schedulers, and event-driven architectures; performance optimization under load.

• Proficiency in a modern programming language like Go, Rust, Java, or TypeScript, and familiarity with cloud-native technologies including containers, CI/CD, and IaC.

• Comfortable working in regulated or high-assurance environments; emphasis on correctness, clarity, and thorough documentation.

• Strong technical judgment and the capacity to influence design choices within a team and across closely related engineering disciplines.

• Capability to integrate advanced LLM functionalities into system design and platform architecture decisions when applicable.

🏝️ Benefits

• Career progression opportunity with the potential for swift advancement based on strong performance as the company expands.

• Comprehensive health care, including medical, dental, and vision, fully covered by the employer for you and your family.

• Paid maternity and paternity leave for 14 weeks at the employee's regular pay rate.

• Unlimited paid time off (PTO), subject to management approval.

• Opportunities for professional development and ongoing learning.

• Optional 401K, Flexible Spending Account (FSA), and equity incentives available.

• Access to mental health benefits through Tara Mind.

• Affordable GLP-1 solutions provided through Crux.