Senior Software Engineer — DevOps & Platform, AI Systems
About The Position
This role is for a software engineer who specializes in infrastructure and prefers building systems that enhance the speed and efficiency of product teams, rather than working directly on product development. The ideal candidate is an agent orchestrator who leverages agents for tasks like generating Infrastructure as Code (IaC), triaging alerts, and drafting runbooks, while focusing on architecture and decision-making. This role emphasizes eliminating toil through automation and a deep understanding of fundamental systems like Linux, networking, and distributed systems. The candidate should be a first-principles thinker, designing for failure modes and scalability, and possess high agency to drive initiatives forward constructively.
Requirements
- Software engineering background with a focus on infrastructure.
- Ability to write real code, not just glue scripts.
- Proficiency in managing agents for automation.
- Deep understanding of Linux, networking, and distributed systems.
- Ability to understand system failures under load.
- Ability to read traces and identify root causes of failures.
- First-principles thinking.
- Design for failure modes.
- Ability to simplify systems.
- Build for scalability (next order of magnitude).
- High agency and initiative.
- Ability to constructively navigate organizational structures.
Responsibilities
- Build systems that make product teams faster.
- Manage agents to perform tasks such as generating IaC, triaging alerts, and writing runbooks.
- Focus on architecture and judgment calls.
- Eliminate toil at the root by replacing manual processes with code or agents.
- Automate tasks to allow focus on deciding what to automate next.
- Understand the underlying machine, not just the tools.
- Read traces and fix root causes when systems fail.
- Evaluate the correctness of agent-proposed fixes.
- Design for failure modes and scalability.
- Simplify systems and build for future growth.
- Propose and implement solutions without waiting for perfect specifications.
- Identify and overcome organizational obstacles constructively.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
