Staff Agentic Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Utah.

📋 Description

• Lead the technical strategy for a specific product area and create frameworks for various teams.

• Establish standards for specification quality and implement review checkpoints.

• Define criteria for agentic execution compared to direct implementation.

• Coordinate the efforts of human and agentic contributors across multiple teams.

• Implement verification practices to ensure safe work produced by agents.

• Design security architecture, establish data-flow boundaries, set access controls, and develop threat models.

• Create readiness criteria, context, guidelines, and observability for agentic tasks.

• Develop prompts, agent instructions, repository standards, testing frameworks, and operational playbooks.

• Address high-stakes technical decisions within the product area.

• Collaborate with product leadership to guide the roadmap direction.

• Provide mentorship to engineers across teams on specifying, delegating, and verifying agentic tasks.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of experience in software engineering.

• Proven track record of developing and delivering customer-facing software in production environments.

• Experience in taking ownership of the technical direction within a product area.

• History of establishing agent patterns and AI-driven solutions that are utilized by multiple teams.

• In-depth knowledge of systems, data models, architecture, performance, and data-flow trade-offs.

• Capability to define specification standards and review processes across teams.

• Expertise in context engineering.

• Ability to design agent workflows for concurrent execution with human checkpoints.

• Proficient in reading unfamiliar code and conducting root-cause analysis.

• Experience in establishing security and privacy review standards for injection, data handling, and managing unsafe generated outputs.

• Strong understanding of test design and evaluation standards.

• Excellent judgment in coordinating version control across multiple teams.

• Proficiency in CI/CD practices, feature flags, staged rollouts, and rollback strategies.

• Experience in operating and maintaining production software with observability, metrics, traces, and incident response capabilities.

• Ability to mentor engineers across various teams and influence technical direction beyond a single team.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

• Must successfully complete a background and credit check.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance.

• 4 weeks of vacation.

• 12 company holidays.

• Parental leave.

• Volunteer time off.

• 401k plan with up to 6% company matching.

• $2000 Paid-Paid Vacation bonus.

• Employee Assistance Program through Headspace.

• Competitive benefits package.

• Opportunities for professional development.

• Flexible work arrangements.