Staff Software Engineer

RBGlobal•Westchester, IL

16h•$123,950 - $154,880

About The Position

RB Global is hiring founding engineers for a new team focused on making agentic software development standard, governed, and measurable across the company. The team will establish its scope, standards, and initial deliverables, applying engineering excellence to how the company builds software with AI. Its approach is to reuse existing tools where they are sufficient and build only what is missing. The Staff Software Engineer will help create secure, governed access for agents to internal tools and data; build and operate containerized agent environments; make engineering standards consumable by tools and agents; and establish metrics for speed, quality, and cost. The role partners with CI/CD, security, and platform teams to integrate agent workflows with existing company tools, and ensures shipped solutions are tested, documented, hardened, and supportable. The engineer will own solution design and architecture across multiple initiatives and team boundaries as the team's scope grows. In collaboration with teammates, the technical product owner, and company stakeholders, the role will shape priorities and delivery while addressing ambiguous problems through shared technical reasoning.

Requirements

Eight or more years of professional software engineering experience, with staff-level scope and judgment, including experience setting technical direction collaboratively.
Experience contributing to internal developer platforms, paved-road tooling, or developer-enablement work.
Deep, hands-on experience setting up and operating CI/CD pipelines, including defining and enforcing quality gates as code.
Deep understanding of Kubernetes or comparable container orchestration, and comfort owning services from build through production operation.
Strong practical knowledge of observability, including structured logging, tracing, and metrics or dashboards, and using it to assess whether systems work.
Enterprise-level experience with Python, Java, Go, or similar high-level languages, and the ability to reason across a stack and learn languages as needed.
A track record of building tools other engineers adopt voluntarily, with attention to rollout, documentation, and ease of adoption.
Curiosity and willingness to learn in a fast-moving space where established answers and playbooks may not exist.
Strong communication skills and ability to explain technical trade-offs clearly to teammates, engineering teams, and stakeholders.
Ability to translate ambiguous or evolving problems into a concrete technical approach.

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

Design and build secure, governed ways for agents to access internal tools and data, including appropriate scoping, credentials, and audit trails.
Build and operate containerized environments for agents, controlling isolation, reproducibility, and model and cost choices.
Turn engineering standards and conventions into consumable, actionable guidance for tools and agents.
Establish baselines and metrics to evaluate development speed, quality, and cost.
Partner with CI/CD, security, and platform teams to integrate agent workflows with existing company tools.
Review and harden delivered systems, including tests, documentation, and clear support plans.
Collaborate on deciding what the team should take on and whether to adopt existing tools or build new ones.
Own the design and architecture of solutions across multiple initiatives and team boundaries.
Partner with the technical product owner and stakeholders to shape direction, priorities, and work stories.
Work collaboratively with other engineers to reason through ambiguous problems.