Staff Agentic Engineer

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) match

Generous leave policies

Paid vacation & holidays

EAP (Headspace)

Job summary

BambooHR is seeking a Staff Agentic Software Engineer to shape the technical direction of a product area and define agentic work patterns across teams. You will set standards for specifications, visibility into AI-driven workflows, and scalable security practices while guiding multiple teams toward safe, productive automation.

You will lead efforts that balance agentic execution with direct implementation, mentoring engineers and driving cross-team collaboration in a remote-enabled setup across

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building production software.
• A track record of AI-powered solutions used across teams.
• Experience designing scalable architectures and data models.
• Defined specification standards across multiple teams and review gates.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers and lead across teams.
• Strong communication for leadership and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction of a product area and set agentic work patterns.
• Define specifications quality standards and review gates.
• Establish when work should be agentic vs. direct implementation.
• Coordinate large-scale efforts across multiple teams and contributors.
• Set verification, security architecture, and risk controls for agentic work.
• Develop readiness criteria and observability for safe delegation.
• Build prompts, agent instructions, and playbooks for teams.
• Mentor engineers and shape technical direction beyond a single team.

Skills

AI-powered engineering

System design

Security & privacy

CI/CD & feature flags

Observability & incident response

Mentoring engineers

Root-cause analysis

Cross-team coordination

Tools

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Security tooling

Job description

Please Note: This is a remote position available in the state listed on this job. Additionally, employment with BambooHR is contingent on passing both a background and credit check.

AI at BambooHR: At BambooHR, we believe in leveraging cutting-edge technology to empower people and transform HR. We’re actively integrating AI into our solutions and workflows to enhance efficiency and drive innovation. To that end, we’re looking to our existing team members and future hires to share this forward-thinking mindset: individuals who are curious about AI’s potential, eager to learn and adapt, and ready to explore how intelligent tools can elevate their work along with BambooHR’s impact on setting people free to do great work. Join us in reimagining the future of HR!

Essential Job Duties

BambooHR is on a mission to set people free to do great work. Our software powers the HR work that small and mid-sized businesses depend on every day. We're looking for software engineers who use AI to build production-quality software. As a Staff Agentic Software Engineer, you own the technical direction of a product area, and the patterns multiple teams build on. You define how engineers across teams specify, delegate, and verify agentic work, and you set the standards that keep that work safe at scale.

AI tools and capabilities change rapidly. To stay resilient through change, you prioritize curiosity and continual learning, and you actively apply new best practices. You are accountable for the technical direction of your product area: the reusable patterns teams adopt, the verification practice that keeps agent-produced work safe, and the leverage that direction creates across teams.

What You'll Do

Your work runs through four loops, each building on the last: specifying intent, delegating execution to agents, verifying and integrating their output, and codifying best practices and processes to compound value.

• Own the technical direction of a product area, setting how multiple teams specify, delegate, and verify agentic work.
• Define the standard for specification quality across teams: what a complete specification contains and what review gates enforce it.
• Establish the framework for when work warrants agentic execution and when it needs direct implementation, building heuristics that raise the floor for every team.
• Drive large-scale efforts by coordinating human and agentic contributors across multiple teams to deliver more than any one team could.
• Set the verification practice that keeps agent-produced work safe at scale, calibrated to risk and blast radius.
• Set the security architecture for agentic work across the product area, partnering with security to implement it: the data-flow boundaries, access controls, and threat models agents operate within.
• Establish the readiness criteria a product area must meet before agentic work is safe to delegate: the context, guardrails, and observability that must be in place.
• Build the scaffolding that teams delegate through: prompts, agent instructions, repo conventions, test harnesses, and playbooks.
• Resolve the highest-risk technical decisions across the product area, where the stakes or the blast radius are greatest.
• Partner with product leadership to shape what gets built across the product area, bringing engineering judgment into roadmap direction.
• Raise the agentic craft of engineers across teams, mentoring on how they specify, delegate, and verify.

What You'll Need to get the Job done

You will need depth in these areas to set technical direction, standardize practice across teams, and raise the engineers who deliver.

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with a record of building and shipping customer-facing software in production and ownership of technical direction across a product area.
• Track record of setting agent patterns and AI-powered solutions that multiple teams reuse.
• Depth in designing systems, data models, and architecture that teams build on, including performance and data-flow tradeoffs.
• Demonstrated ability to define specification standards across teams: what complete looks like and how review gates enforce it.
• Command of context engineering: setting how repo and task context is structured so agents execute reliably across teams.
• Proven ability to design agent workflows for parallel execution across teams, with human checkpoints throughout.
• Confidence reading unfamiliar code and running root-cause analysis to debug it.
• Track record of setting the security and privacy review bar: injection, data-handling, and unsafe generated output.
• Fluency setting test design and evaluation standards that teams follow.
• Sound judgment coordinating version control at multi-team scale: branching, reviewing, and integrating concurrent changes safely.
• Skill in defining safe release standards: CI/CD, feature flags, staged rollout, and rollback.
• Experience operating and maintaining software in production with observability, metrics, traces, and incident response.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers across teams and shape technical direction beyond a single team.
• Strong written and verbal communication, including synthesizing technical strategy and tradeoffs for leadership and across teams.

What You'll Love About Us

• A Great Company Culture that has been recognized by multiple organizations like Inc, and Salt Lake Tribune
• Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance
• Generous leave policies that include 4 weeks of vacation, 12 company holidays, parental leave, and volunteer time off so you can enjoy quality of life
• 401k plans with up to 6% company match
• $2000 Paid-Paid Vacation bonus
• EAP through Headspace
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