Remote Staff Agentic Engineer: AI-Driven Systems Leader

BambooHR; Draper (UT); Remote; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

4 weeks vacation

12 company holidays

Parental leave

Volunteer time off

Remote-friendly

Job summary

BambooHR is seeking a Staff Agentic Software Engineer to lead the technical direction of a product area and set patterns for agentic work across teams. You will define specifications, delegate execution to agents, and verify outputs while shaping best practices and security.

Join a team focused on building a human-centered HR platform that empowers people and organizations through AI-driven software, with remote-friendly work from Utah and competitive benefits.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with production systems.
• Track record of setting agent patterns and AI-powered solutions across teams.
• Experience designing systems, data models, and architecture with performance tradeoffs.
• Ability to define specification standards across teams and enforce review gates.
• Expertise in context engineering and ensuring reliable agent execution.
• Experience designing agent workflows for parallel execution with human checkpoints.
• Strong ability to read unfamiliar code and perform root-cause analysis.
• Experience setting security and privacy review standards for data handling.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction of a product area and define how teams specify, delegate, and verify agentic work.
• Define and enforce specifications quality across teams and review gates.
• Establish when work should be agentic versus directly implemented, with clear heuristics.
• Coordinate large-scale efforts across multiple teams to deliver more than any single team could.
• Set verification practices to keep agent-produced work safe at scale and within risk bounds.
• Define security architecture for agentic work with security partners and data-flow controls.
• Establish readiness criteria for safe delegation of agentic work across the product area.
• Build scaffolding for delegation: prompts, agent instructions, repo conventions, test harnesses, playbooks.
• Resolve high-risk technical decisions across the product area, and guide roadmap with leadership.

Job description

BambooHR is seeking a Staff Agentic Software Engineer to lead the technical direction of a product area and set patterns for agentic work across teams. You will define specifications, delegate execution to agents, and verify outputs while shaping best practices and security.

Join a team focused on building a human-centered HR platform that empowers people and organizations through AI-driven software, with remote-friendly work from Utah and competitive benefits.