Software Engineer I - AI Agents & Harnesses

Travelers; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 99,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Job summary

Travelers in Atlanta, GA, is seeking an experienced software engineer to deliver and own agent harness capabilities across engineering teams. You will work on orchestration, tool integrations, and guardrails to support scalable product delivery.

The role requires hands-on Python and TypeScript, exposure to AI integration, AWS/Azure, and Kubernetes, with a focus on secure, observable systems and strong collaboration across architects, product owners, and consuming teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on software development experience with shipped production code.
• Proficiency in Python, with exposure to TypeScript for AI integration work.
• Hands-on experience building generative AI or agentic applications.
• Experience using agentic coding tools and understanding their benefits and limits.
• Familiarity with agent harness components: orchestration loops, tool interfaces, context/memory management, guardrails.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud services.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerization.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions or Jenkins).
• Expertise in at least one technical discipline and willingness to expand knowledge.
• Strong written and verbal communication with partners outside engineering.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate agent harness capabilities used by engineering teams across the enterprise.
• Integrate agents with tools, APIs, and enterprise systems and ensure reliability under load.
• Advance test automation and deliver code meeting non-functional requirements (secure, observable, scalable, recoverable).
• Contribute to application and solution design with architects, product owners, and consuming teams.
• Own assets end to end, including currency, vulnerability management, and production readiness.
• Document work to enable others to build on it and deepen domain expertise.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Generative AI

Agent harness

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Communication

Agile

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science OR related field

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Terraform

CDK

LangGraph

Strands Agents

Job description

Who Are We?

Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That's the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 170 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.

Job Category

Technology

Compensation Overview

The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

Salary Range

$99,100.00 - $163,400.00

Target Openings

1

What Is the Opportunity?

• Will deliver harness capabilities that other engineering teams build on, including orchestration, tool integration, context management, and the guardrails around them.
• Engineers at this level work across the full architecture of product delivery from requirements gathering to maintenance and enhancement of existing systems.
• Will contribute to architecture and solution design in partnership with engineering, architecture, and product, and build SME-level depth in the technologies they own.
• This role is for engineers who take full ownership of what they develop and thrive in a fast-paced environment.

What Will You Do?

• Build and operate agent harness capabilities consumed by engineering teams across the enterprise, working within the team's technical direction.
• Integrate agents with tools, APIs, and enterprise systems, and make those integrations reliable under real load.
• Advance test automation and deliver code against non-functional requirements: secure, observable, scalable, recoverable, financially responsible.
• Contribute to application and solution design in partnership with architects, product owners, and consuming teams.
• Own your assets end to end, including currency, vulnerability management, and production readiness.
• Document your work so others can build on it, and actively deepen your expertise in the technologies you own.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on software development experience, including code you have shipped and supported in production.
• Proficiency in Python, with exposure to TypeScript for AI integration work.
• Hands-on experience building generative AI or agentic applications.
• Experience using agentic coding tools, with an informed point of view on where they help and where they fall short.
• Familiarity with the components of an agent harness: orchestration loops, tool interfaces, context and memory management, and guardrails.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud services.
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration tools, including Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
• SME-level depth in at least one technical discipline, and the appetite to build more.
• Strong written and verbal communication, including with partners outside engineering.
• Agentic runtimes and harness platforms such as AWS AgentCore experience.
• OSS agent frameworks such as Strands Agents or LangGraph experience.
• Terraform, CDK, or an equivalent for provisioning cloud infrastructure experience.
• Helm for Kubernetes application deployment experience.
• Observability tooling and distributed tracing in production environments experience.

What is a Must Have?

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, related STEM field, or its equivalent in education and/or work experience.
• 2 additional years of software engineering experience.

What Is in It for You?

• Health Insurance : Employees and their eligible family members - including spouses, domestic partners, and children - are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.
• Retirement: Travelers matches your 401(k) contributions dollar-for-dollar up to your first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum. If you have student loan debt, you can enroll in the Paying it