Senior Software Engineer

RBGlobal•Morris, IL

2h•$43,888 - $123,950

About The Position

RB Global is hiring founding engineers for its AI Enablement team, which aims to make agentic software development standard, governed, and measurable across the company. The team will establish its scope, standards, and initial deliverables, using existing tools where suitable and building new capabilities where needed. The role applies engineering excellence to software development with AI and involves collaborating with engineering, platform, CI/CD, security, product, and stakeholder teams.

Requirements

At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience at a senior level, with a record of delivering reliable work and improving team practices.
Familiarity with internal developer platforms, paved-road tooling, or developer enablement, and interest in making engineers more effective.
Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, including quality gates defined as code.
Experience with Kubernetes or comparable container orchestration, and comfort supporting services from build through production operation.
Working knowledge of observability, including structured logging, tracing, and metrics or dashboards, and using it to assess whether systems are working.
Comfort working in Python and ability to reason across a software stack and learn languages or tools as needed.
Curiosity and a genuine desire to learn in a fast-moving area where established answers and playbooks may not exist.
Habit of contributing to discussions by asking questions, offering ideas, and sharing a point of view.
Strong communication skills and ability to explain technical trade-offs to teammates, other engineering teams, and stakeholders.
Comfort working collaboratively through ambiguous or evolving problems.

Nice To Haves

Experience using AI-assisted development tools, such as GitHub Copilot or agentic coding tools; experience building platforms, tooling, or guardrails around them is especially valuable.
Experience building AI tooling, personally or professionally, and enjoyment of experimenting with new approaches.
Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol) or similar tool-access and governance patterns.

Responsibilities

Help build secure, governed ways for agents to access internal tools and data, including appropriate scoping, credentials, and audit trails.
Help build and operate containerized agent environments with controlled isolation, reproducibility, and model and cost choices.
Turn engineering standards and conventions into consumable, enforceable guidance for tools and agents.
Establish baselines and metrics to measure development speed, quality, and cost.
Work with CI/CD, security, and platform teams to integrate agent workflows with existing company tools.
Review and harden delivered systems through testing, documentation, and clear support plans.
Contribute to decisions about the team's scope and when to adopt existing tools versus build new ones.
Work with the technical product owner and stakeholders to understand priorities and deliver work.
Collaborate with teammates to reason through ambiguous problems and contribute questions, ideas, and feedback.