Senior Software Engineer

Octic; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 124,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Flexible schedule

Potential longer-term role

Cloud and self-hosted deployment

Job summary

Octic is seeking a remote contractor to build security and accountability infrastructure for AI agents, MCP servers, and related services. The role spans the product lifecycle on a small engineering team that uses coding agents in its workflow.

Responsibilities include owning systems end to end, designing features for discovery, trust policies, monitoring, and security evidence, and mapping AI services and ownership.

Qualifications

• Experience owning a system through design, implementation, and operation.
• Practical experience using AI coding agents and understanding failure modes.
• Some security experience; depth may vary.
• Ability to work independently in a small engineering team and communicate clearly.

Responsibilities

• Own systems end to end, making design and implementation decisions across product components.
• Develop features that support discovery, trust policies, monitoring, and evidence for security and compliance reviews.
• Build and operate software for mapping AI services and ownership and activity.
• Use coding agents in daily development while assessing their limitations and maintaining engineering quality.
• Contribute to security work and explain relevant trade-offs in system design.

Skills

End-to-end system ownership

AI coding agents

Security awareness

Independent work

Job description

Role overview

Build security and accountability infrastructure that helps organizations discover and govern AI agents, MCP servers, and related services. The role spans the product lifecycle, from backend and data design through user-facing features and operations, on a small team that uses coding agents as part of its engineering workflow.

Responsibilities

• Own systems end to end, making design and implementation decisions across product components.
• Develop features that support discovery, trust policies, monitoring, and evidence for security and compliance reviews.
• Build and operate software for mapping AI services and clarifying their ownership and activity.
• Use coding agents in daily development while assessing their limitations and maintaining engineering quality.
• Contribute to security work and explain relevant trade-offs in system design.

Requirements

• Experience owning a system through design, implementation, and operation, including making difficult technical decisions.
• Practical experience using AI coding agents, with an understanding of where their output can fail.
• Some experience with security problems; depth may vary.
• Ability to work independently and communicate clearly in a small engineering team.

Benefits and work setup

The position is a remote independent contractor role for candidates in the Americas or nearby time zones. It can be full-time or part-time depending on fit and availability, with a competitive rate based on experience and a possible path to a longer-term role. The product includes cloud-hosted and self-hosted deployment options.