Senior/Staff Software Engineer – Platform and Execution Model

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

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and take ownership of essential components within the core execution model, which includes the state machine, lifecycle, resource model, and failure semantics.

• Create dependable distributed systems that exhibit predictable behavior during retries, restarts, partial failures, and concurrent executions.

• Develop platform APIs/SDKs that connect workflows, agents, tools, and product surfaces while managing versioning and compatibility.

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

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

• Integrate security and governance into the core framework via RBAC/ABAC, policy enforcement, and detailed audit and lineage tracking.

• Provide observability through distributed tracing, structured logging, metrics, evaluation hooks, and a clear trail of agent actions.

• Maintain high quality through design reviews, test strategies, performance baselines, SLOs, incident response, and postmortems.

• Mentor fellow engineers, participate in design reviews, and establish robust engineering patterns across the platform.

• Contribute to Trase OS, the unified platform that supports AI deployments in regulated environments.

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

• Extensive knowledge of durable execution, encompassing state machines, event sourcing, saga/compensation, idempotency, and exactly/at-least-once semantics.

• Demonstrated experience with security and governance in production systems, including authentication, RBAC, auditing, and policy management.

• Proficient in observability tools, such as Grafana or similar, and trace correlation across asynchronous boundaries.

• Strong background in systems design related to storage, queues, schedulers, and event-driven architectures; capable of performance tuning under load.

• Proficient in a modern programming language such as Go, Rust, Java, or TypeScript, along with cloud-native stacks, including containers, CI/CD, and IaC.

• Comfortable working in regulated or high-assurance environments, with a focus on correctness, clarity, and thorough documentation.

• Strong technical judgment and capability to influence design decisions within a team and across closely related engineering domains.

• Ability to integrate advanced LLM capabilities into system design and platform architecture decisions when appropriate.

🏝️ Benefits

• Career progression opportunities with the potential for rapid advancement based on strong performance as the firm 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 growth and ongoing learning.

• Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available.

• Mental health support services provided through Tara Mind.