Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack / Agentic Engineering

Distill•,

53d•$120,000 - $220,000•Remote

About The Position

Distill gives every founder and executive a "mini-me" that does outreach for them. Customers would rather hear from founders than salespeople, but founders don't have the time. Distill does it for them: deep research on each person, tight and human messages that get industry-leading response rates, turning cold outreach into real conversations. Distill is backed by top tier VCs (funding has yet to be announced) and was founded in 2024 by Russ Heddleston and Tim Su. Both are multi-time founders with exits under their belts who love building usable, delightful B2B software that targets the end user. Tim previously started and sold a todo app called Astrid to Yahoo! and then went on to start Tandem, a remote work communication tool backed by a16z. Russ previously started and sold Pursuit.com [http://Pursuit.com] to Meta and then started and sold DocSend to Dropbox. Distill is a remote-first team as Tim is happily settled in Mountain View and Russ is up in Whistler. Come join as we make use of LLMs to create delightful B2B software that end users love! Role Overview: As a Senior Software Engineer, Agentic Engineering at Distill, you'll make our product easier to use through agents and automation. You'll experiment with agentic and harness engineering, integrate across every part of our product, and work daily with our in-house concierge team to understand their workflow. Your job is to turn manual, repetitive work like automated outreach into something fast, reliable, and genuinely easy to use.

Requirements

5+ years of software engineering experience, with time spent owning features or initiatives end to end
Hands-on experience building with LLMs in production, including tool-calling agents
Experience owning some part of a product, including talking to users to figure out what to build
Exceptional problem-solving skills and the ability to ship quickly in a fast-paced startup
Ability to work independently and own a domain
Proficiency in Node.js / TypeScript

Nice To Haves

Experience working with Postgres in production
Experience building outreach, automation, or internal tools
Experience designing agent harnesses or evaluation frameworks for LLM systems
Familiarity with prompt engineering and getting reliable behavior out of LLMs in production

Responsibilities

Build agents and automation that make Distill easier to use across every part of the product
Implement leading best practices on observability, evals, and agentic performance
Experiment with agentic and harness engineering, figuring out what can be automated and what can't
Work daily with our in-house concierge team to learn their workflow and turn it into reliable automation
Make automated outreach faster, more accurate, and genuinely easy to use.
Own features end to end, from talking to users to figure out the right thing to build, through shipping it
Integrate with LLMs and tool-calling agents in production, building the harnesses that make them dependable