Staff Software Engineer – Agentic First

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

📋 Description

• Lead the design and implementation of enterprise-level, agentic-first features within the Nexus Repository Manager.

• Establish the technical vision for a significant product domain.

• Coordinate multiple agents across various parallel workflows that include decomposition, orchestration, implementation, testing, and review.

• Manage key projects from vague problem definitions through technical design, cross-team execution, rollout, and sustainable operability.

• Define evaluations, harnesses, guardrails, and review processes for code produced by agents.

• Create internal agentic engineering playbooks, tools, and established practices.

• Provide training and mentorship to Senior engineers.

• Take ownership of performance, reliability, and security requirements, including addressing software supply chain risks.

• Collaborate with Product, Security Research, UX, and Support leaders to convert customer requirements into technical strategies.

• Conduct in-depth design reviews and enhance engineering quality benchmarks.

• Work with Principal engineers on complex technical decisions.

• Influence the Nexus technical roadmap and set the engineering hiring standards.

⛳️ Requirements

• Familiarity with multi-step, long-running agent workflows as the standard software development approach.

• Practical experience in designing, operating, and scaling multi-agent systems, such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor background agents, custom orchestrators, or LangGraph-style graphs.

• Knowledge of MCP tools, shared context and memory, agent transitions, and robust evaluation harnesses.

• Proven experience in delivering projects utilizing multi-agent systems.

• Proficient in defining evaluations, test harnesses, observability, and review processes.

• Experience leading internal rollouts, publishing, open-sourcing, or promoting agentic engineering methodologies.

• A product engineering mindset, capable of independently making product decisions and managing scope, trade-offs, and sequencing.

• Over 7 years of professional software development experience.

• Demonstrated success in leading technical initiatives over multiple quarters that span several teams or services.

• Strong proficiency in Java, cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP), and large-scale distributed systems.

• Experience with performance optimization, data-heavy services, and maintaining production operability at scale.

• Working knowledge of software supply chain security.

• Familiarity with SBOM formats (CycloneDX, SPDX), SCA, SLSA provenance, Sigstore/cosign signing, vulnerability analysis (OSV, NVD), and package ecosystem attack vectors.

🏝️ Benefits

• Parental leave.

• Diversity and inclusion working groups.

• Flexible working arrangements.

• Paid Volunteer Time Off (VTO).