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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