Remote Staff Platform Engineer for AI Data & Workflows

Confidential; United States; Remote; USD 250,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Performance bonuses

Health insurance reimbursement

401K plan

Job summary

Confidential is seeking a highly technical Staff Software Engineer to lead platform architecture, data pipelines, and AI-enabled workflows in a fully remote capacity. You will shape scalable backend services, implement event-driven designs, and mentor engineers across multiple squads.

You'll work on AI data infrastructure, workflow orchestration, and enterprise-grade tooling, prioritizing reliability, performance, and observability while leveraging modern DevOps practices and AI-assisted

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of designing and scaling complex production systems.
• Deep hands-on programming in Python, TypeScript, or similar languages, with strong backend fundamentals.
• Extensive experience with distributed systems, microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, and workflow orchestration.
• Strong system design and architecture skills, with trade-offs across scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Experience building data-intensive platforms, including data ingestion, processing pipelines, and analytics infrastructure.
• Practical experience with LLMs and agentic systems, including tool calling, orchestration, and evaluation frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead Platform Architecture: design, develop, and scale platforms for operational workflows and data pipelines.
• Build Scalable Backend Systems: create distributed services, APIs, and event-driven architectures.
• Develop AI Data Infrastructure: support expert-generated data and AI datasets for training/evaluation.
• Drive Workflow Orchestration: architect pipeline creation, onboarding, and automated processes.
• Enable Data Intelligence: surface data, metrics, and insights across systems.
• Establish Agentic Engineering Foundations: design infrastructure for AI agents and tool integration.
• Stay Hands-On: write production-grade code and set engineering standards.
• Improve Engineering Productivity: leverage AI-assisted development, testing, CI/CD, and tooling.
• Provide Technical Leadership: mentor engineers and drive cross-team initiatives.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Cloud platforms

Asynchronous processing

LLMs and agents

Mentorship

Tools

LangGraph

Temporal

MCP

Kubernetes

Job description

Confidential is seeking a highly technical Staff Software Engineer to lead platform architecture, data pipelines, and AI-enabled workflows in a fully remote capacity. You will shape scalable backend services, implement event-driven designs, and mentor engineers across multiple squads.

You'll work on AI data infrastructure, workflow orchestration, and enterprise-grade tooling, prioritizing reliability, performance, and observability while leveraging modern DevOps practices and AI-assisted