Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Agentic AI)

Jobtailor; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in San Francisco seeks a senior software engineer to design, build, and operate agentic systems that reason over large-scale time-series data and hardware context. You will collaborate with product teams to turn review workflows into agent capabilities and ensure robust, scalable backend services.

The role emphasizes API development (REST, gRPC), distributed systems, and Kubernetes deployments, with focus on secure sandboxed execution and evaluation suites to measure impact in

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience building APIs (REST, gRPC, etc.) and complex backend services with technologies like Go, Python, Rust, or similar
• Working knowledge of distributed systems fundamentals
• Curiosity about new AI products and tools
• Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual (asylee or refugee) in compliance with ITAR/EAR regulations

Responsibilities

• Talk directly to customers and partner with product to turn real review workflows into agent capabilities
• Design, ship, and operate agentic systems that reason over large-scale time-series data and hardware domain context
• Build everything around the model that makes agents dependable, including tool interfaces and sandboxed code execution
• Build distributed systems that allow long-running agent work streams in real time
• Design job-based execution systems for Kubernetes in the cloud and on-premises
• Develop and maintain Sift’s MCP server for direct telemetry querying
• Design and implement APIs powering agentic capabilities
• Build evaluation suites to measure agents’ impact on engineers and instrument qualities in production
• Integrate and assess frontier models across providers

Skills

8+ years experience

API Development

Distributed Systems

Kubernetes

Go Programming

Python Programming

Rust Programming

Telemetry

Time-Series Data Analysis

Sandboxed Code Execution

Evaluation Suite Development

REST

GRPC

Backend Services

Tools

GRPC

REST

Kubernetes

Cloud Technologies

Job description

• Talk directly to customers and partner with product to turn real review workflows into agent capabilities


• Design, ship, and operate agentic systems that reason over large-scale time-series data and hardware domain context


• Build everything around the model that makes agents dependable, including tool interfaces and sandboxed code execution


• Build distributed systems that allow long-running agent work streams in real time


• Design job-based execution systems for Kubernetes in the cloud and on-premises


• Develop and maintain Sift’s MCP server for direct telemetry querying


• Design and implement APIs powering agentic capabilities


• Build evaluation suites to measure agents’ impact on engineers and instrument qualities in production


• Integrate and assess frontier models across providers

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience


• Experience building APIs (REST, gRPC, etc.) and complex backend services with technologies like Go, Python, Rust, or similar


• Working knowledge of distributed systems fundamentals


• Curiosity about new AI products and tools


• Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual (asylee or refugee) in compliance with ITAR/EAR regulations

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in building and operating distributed systems, designing APIs, and developing agentic capabilities using programming languages such as Go, Python, and Rust. Strong understanding of cloud technologies, Kubernetes, and compliance with ITAR/EAR regulations is essential.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• API Development


• Distributed Systems


• Kubernetes


• Go Programming


• Python Programming

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• API Development


• Distributed Systems


• Backend Services


• Go Programming


• Python Programming


• Rust Programming


• Telemetry Querying


• Time-Series Data Analysis


• Sandboxed Code Execution


• Evaluation Suite Development

Soft Skills

• Curiosity

Industry Keywords

• ITAR


• EAR


• Agentic Systems


• Telemetry


• AI Products

Tools & Technologies

• Kubernetes


• Cloud Technologies


• GRPC


• REST