Cloud-Native AI Agent Harness Engineer (Remote)

Stacklok; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 158,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health, dental, vision

Flexible hybrid or remote

Job summary

Stacklok is seeking a Software Engineer II to build the Mecatl platform that runs AI agents. You will develop across the engine, the Kubernetes-native runtime, client surfaces, and governance layers with independence and a focus on security and reliability.

As part of an AI-first engineering team, you will contribute to design, tests, and open-source–style collaboration, and ship impactful enhancements in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Go and clean, testable code.
• Experience delivering features across backend/platform code.
• Knowledge of distributed systems and cloud-native infra.

Responsibilities

• Build features across Mecatl, including agent loop and runtime.
• Harden the harness for production with reliability and security.
• Write design docs, review PRs, including AI-assisted changes.
• Collaborate with product/staff engineers to plan work.
• Apply security judgment to AI-assisted development.

Skills

Go

Independent delivery

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Containers

gRPC

HTTP

AI-assisted development

Security

Communication

Startup mindset

Tools

TypeScript SDK

gRPC APIs

Job description

Stacklok is seeking a Software Engineer II to build the Mecatl platform that runs AI agents. You will develop across the engine, the Kubernetes-native runtime, client surfaces, and governance layers with independence and a focus on security and reliability.

As part of an AI-first engineering team, you will contribute to design, tests, and open-source–style collaboration, and ship impactful enhancements in a fast-moving environment.