Staff Software Engineer, AI Platform

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SyndioCompensation software
Remote-first in US + AlbertaFull-TimeStaff
SalaryFor this role our salary is targeted at $205-225k USD or $180-200k CAD per year.
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Job Details

Experience
5+ years building production backend systems
Required Skills
PostgreSQLPythonGCPKubernetes

Requirements

  • Have 5+ years of experience building production backend systems.
  • Have deep comfort with Python, relational stores, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Have experience with GCP and Kubernetes.
  • Have built LLM-powered systems in production, such as an agent loop, tool-calling integration, RAG, or evaluation infrastructure.
  • Design for operability, including legal compliance, tracing, evaluations, and kill switches.
  • Be able to own a technical domain with light supervision, propose direction in writing with clear API specifications, incorporate review, and ship.
  • Be able to carry the pager for systems you ship.
  • Have strong written communication skills for design documents and PR reviews across team boundaries.
  • Nice to have: experience on the platform side of a platform/product relationship.
  • Nice to have: experience with SSE or streaming systems.
  • Nice to have: compliance-adjacent engineering experience, such as data minimization or auditability.
  • Nice to have: prior Staff-level scope.

Responsibilities

  • Own and develop core syndi-api runtime surfaces, including the agent loop, tool execution and registry, memory, and context management.
  • Grow the evaluation system, including offline gates and online detector/judge evaluations written onto production traces.
  • Operate the platform in production, including observability, incident response, and agent-surface reliability.
  • Review product teams' tool wrappers and evaluations.
  • Evolve the GET /tools registry and its drift-detection contract.
  • Clarify, design, and implement compliance and legal requirements for Syndio.
  • Design and ship systems end-to-end, and take operational responsibility for what you ship.
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For this role our salary is targeted at $205-225k USD or $180-200k CAD per year.
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