Senior/Staff Platform Engineer - AI Orchestration

Trase; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth opportunities

Comprehensive health benefits for you

Professional development and equity

Job summary

Trase is seeking a Senior or Staff Software Engineer to own critical parts of Trase OS, the platform powering deployments in regulated environments. You will design and build distributed system primitives, focus on reliability, scalability, and correctness, and mentor other engineers while shaping engineering standards across teams.

The role requires deep expertise in durable execution, state machines, and architecture across workflows, agents, and tools, with hands‑on coding in

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building distributed/platform systems, including significant experience defining architecture across teams or domains.
• 4+ years owning mission‑critical runtimes or workflow/orchestration systems
• Durable execution expertise (state machines, event sourcing, saga/compensation, idempotency)
• Security & governance in production systems (auth, RBAC, audit, policy)
• Observability (Grafana or equivalent), trace correlation across async boundaries
• Strong systems design across storage, queues, schedulers, and evented architectures; performance tuning under load
• Proficiency in modern languages (Go, Rust, Java, TypeScript) and cloud‑native stacks (containers, CI/CD, IaC)
• Comfort operating in regulated/high‑assurance environments; bias toward correctness, clarity, and documentation
• Strong technical judgment and ability to influence design decisions across teams
• Ability to incorporate advanced LLM capabilities into system design when appropriate

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own critical components of the core execution model (state machine, lifecycle, resource model, failure semantics)
• Build reliable distributed systems that behave predictably across retries, restarts, partial failures, and concurrent execution
• Develop platform APIs/SDKs connecting workflows, agents, tools, and product surfaces; drive versioning & compatibility
• Guarantee correctness via idempotency, deterministic replays, compensating actions, and data integrity
• Engineer reliability at scale: concurrency controls, rate limits, backpressure, sharding/partitioning, and workload isolation
• Build security & governance into the core: RBAC/ABAC, policy enforcement, audit & lineage
• Deliver observability: distributed tracing, structured logs, metrics, and explainable trail of agent actions
• Own quality: design reviews, test strategy (unit, property, chaos), performance baselines, SLOs, incident response, postmortems
• Mentor engineers, contribute to design reviews, and help establish strong engineering patterns across the platform

Skills

Distributed systems

System design

Go

Rust

Java

TypeScript

Cloud-native

CI/CD

IaC

Observability

Security governance

Architectural leadership

Tools

Temporal/Cadence/AWS Step Functions

Argo

Airflow

OPA

KMS

LLM evaluation frameworks

Job description

Trase is seeking a Senior or Staff Software Engineer to own critical parts of Trase OS, the platform powering deployments in regulated environments. You will design and build distributed system primitives, focus on reliability, scalability, and correctness, and mentor other engineers while shaping engineering standards across teams.

The role requires deep expertise in durable execution, state machines, and architecture across workflows, agents, and tools, with hands‑on coding in