Staff Agent Engineer

Franklin Fitch; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Franklin Fitch is seeking a senior platform engineer to own the platform direction and drive a modular, scalable architecture. You will review client and internal builds, ensure security and reliability, and split time between delivery and platform work in a small, senior team.

Ideal candidates have shipped to production, built platforms from scratch or refactored, and actively work with AI tooling beyond personal projects. Leadership opportunities may follow as the team grows.

Qualifications

• Platform engineering experience with production-grade systems.
• Broad security, infra, and architecture responsibilities.
• Hands-on AI tooling and models experience beyond hobby projects.

Responsibilities

• Review existing builds to define reusable platform capabilities.
• Own production hardening, security, and infrastructure decisions.
• Balance client delivery with internal platform work at scale.
• Mentor junior engineers and raise production standards.
• Work within a small, senior technical team and evolve toward leadership.

Skills

Platform engineering

Security

DevOps

Architecture

AI experimentation

Job description

We're hiring for a company that has product-market fit and is now building the agentic platform layer to scale it. The product itself is AI-native; this isn't AI bolted onto an existing system, it's the core of what's being built. You'd be working at the frontier of agentic systems, not integrating a chatbot into a legacy stack. This is a genuine opportunity to shape that product from an early stage, with real, hands-on ownership over technical direction: the decisions you make about architecture, tooling, and how the platform works aren't handed down from someone else's roadmap - you're the one setting it.

Revenue is already past their annual target, they have a portfolio paying customers, and demand currently exceeds delivery capacity with no outbound sales. Backed by investors who are increasing their position in a round closing toward year-end. The company is past the stage of proving the business works.

We're specifically looking for people who are passionate about AI, and who have already built a platform from scratch or heavily refactored one, touching security, infra, and architecture rather than staying in one lane - and are ready to do it again.

Responsibilities

Platform & Delivery

• Review existing internal and client builds and identify what should become a reusable, modular platform capability
• Own production hardening, security, and infrastructure architecture decisions
• Split time between client delivery and internal platform work - the scope is deliberately broad, not a single product roadmap
• Support solution design on larger client opportunities
• Act as senior technical mentor to junior engineers - reviewing specs, unblocking active builds, raising the bar on production judgement
• Work within a small, senior technical team
• Move into engineering leadership over time if that's the right fit for you - this is not being sold as a management track

Requirements

Required

• Platform background, not a purely DevOps profile
• Has shipped to production and carried the pager when it broke
• Broad experience across platform engineering, security, DevOps/infrastructure, and architecture
• Has built a platform from scratch or heavily refactored one
• Actively builds with AI outside of work - personal agents, tools, experiments - and follows new models and tooling closely
• Has formed real opinions on AI models, tooling, agentic coding, build management, and multi-agent workflows through direct use
• Has shipped AI/agent work commercially, not only in personal projects

Preferred

• Deep Azure experience, particularly deploying and maintaining production environments
• Background at a pre-PMF startup, or post-acquisition and looking to build again
• Track record of moving from strong senior engineer into staff-level scope
• History of covering multiple technical areas rather than staying in a narrow specialty