Staff Agentic Engineer

bamboohr17; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

4 weeks vacation

Company holidays

Parental leave

Volunteer leave

Retirement plan with employer matching

Paid vacation bonus

Employee assistance program

Job summary

bamboohr17 is seeking a senior leader to set the technical direction for a product area where multiple engineering teams use AI agents to build and maintain production software. You will blend architecture with hands-on judgment, establish standards for how work is specified, delegated, and verified, and raise shared practices across teams.

You will mentor engineers, define agent patterns, and collaborate with security, product leadership, and ops to ensure safe, observable, and scalable

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience including shipping production software
• Experience creating AI/powered agent patterns adopted across teams
• Strong systems, data modeling and architecture skills with performance tradeoffs
• Ability to define clear specs and review gates for agent work
• Experience operating production software with observability, metrics, tracing and incident response
• Proven cross-team mentoring and effective communication to leaders

Responsibilities

• Define reusable approaches for deciding which work suits agent execution
• Establish review and verification practices accounting for risk, security and impact
• Set agent security boundaries in partnership with security specialists
• Prepare product areas for safe agent use with context, guardrails, observability, prompts and playbooks
• Coordinate people and agents across teams on large efforts and advise roadmap choices
• Mentor engineers and turn lessons into shared standards and processes

Skills

Software architecture

Technical leadership

AI patterns

Cross-team mentoring

Security awareness

Communication to leadership

Tools

Observability tooling

Job description

Role overview

Set technical direction for a product area where multiple engineering teams use AI agents to build and maintain production software. The role combines architecture and hands-on engineering judgment with standards for specifying work, delegating it safely, checking results, and improving shared practices.

Responsibilities

• Define reusable approaches for deciding which work suits agent execution and how teams should specify it.
• Establish review and verification practices that account for risk, security, and potential impact.
• Set agent security boundaries, including data flows, access controls, and threat models, in partnership with security specialists.
• Prepare product areas for safe agent use by defining needed context, guardrails, and observability; build supporting prompts, instructions, test harnesses, and playbooks.
• Coordinate people and agents across teams on large efforts, resolve high-impact technical decisions, and advise product leaders on roadmap choices.
• Mentor engineers across teams and turn lessons learned into shared standards and processes.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of software engineering experience, including shipping customer-facing production software and owning technical direction across a product area.
• Experience creating agent patterns or AI-powered solutions adopted by multiple teams.
• Strong systems, data modeling, and architecture skills, including performance and data-flow tradeoffs.
• Ability to define clear specifications and review gates, and to structure repository and task context so agents can work reliably.
• Experience operating production software with observability, metrics, tracing, and incident response.
• Proven cross-team mentoring, technical leadership, and communication skills, including explaining strategy and tradeoffs to leaders.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote work is available in the specified state; the source does not identify the state.
• Benefits listed include health, life, and disability insurance; four weeks of vacation; company holidays; parental and volunteer leave; a retirement plan with employer matching; a paid vacation bonus; and an employee assistance program.
• Employment is contingent on passing background and credit checks.