Senior Member of Technical Staff

Engg; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Engg in San Francisco is seeking a senior, hands-on software engineer to shape the core agentic infrastructure and autonomous applications platform. You will lead architecture decisions, drive engineering practices, and set foundations for the product.

The role requires 8+ years of experience, strong systems design skills, and a track record in distributed or agent-based systems, ideally from an early startup or founder/CTO background. Equity/visa details are not provided.

Qualifications

• Requires 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience with agentic infrastructure and distributed systems.
• Broad multi-domain technical background across stack.
• Experience in early startup environments or as founder/CTO.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable infrastructure for agent orchestration and execution.
• Build frameworks and tools to help teams develop, test, and deploy autonomous agents.
• Partner with product and research teams to translate requirements into reliable technical solutions.
• Mentor engineers and establish effective practices across the codebase.
• Contribute to technical strategy, architecture decisions, and long-term platform roadmap.

Skills

8+ years exp

Agent infrastructure

Distributed systems

Startup/CTO experience

Systems design

Cloud infra

Job description

ABOUT THE ROLE

Join an early-stage AI infrastructure startup as a senior, hands-on engineer working on agentic infrastructure and systems for building autonomous applications. You will shape the architecture of the core platform, guide engineering practices, and help establish a technical foundation for the product.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Design and implement scalable infrastructure for agent orchestration and execution.
• Build frameworks and tools that help teams develop, test, and deploy autonomous agents.
• Partner with product and research teams to translate requirements into reliable technical solutions.
• Mentor engineers and establish effective practices across the codebase.
• Contribute to technical strategy, architecture decisions, and the long-term platform roadmap.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• At least eight years of professional experience in software engineering or a related technical role.
• Hands-on experience with agentic infrastructure, agent systems, agent frameworks, or related distributed systems.
• A broad, generalist technical background, with experience working across multiple technical domains.
• Experience as an early startup engineer, founder, CTO, or founding engineer.
• Strong systems design skills and experience designing production systems for scale and reliability.
• Proficiency with modern programming languages and cloud infrastructure, plus experience building developer-facing tools, APIs, platforms, or infrastructure abstractions.
• Comfort working across the stack, from low-level infrastructure to high-level abstractions.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

The salary range is $150,000 to $250,000 USD annually.

Equity and visa sponsorship details were not provided.

LOCATION Primary location: San Francisco, United States. Work arrangement was not specified.