Staff Platform Engineer: AI Workflow Orchestration (Remote)

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

Job summary

Deliverance AI is seeking a staff engineer to own the execution engine behind customer agent workflows and multi-agent swarms. The role covers orchestration, scheduling, state management, tool use, human-in-the-loop controls, and production reliability.

Based in London or available remotely, the position offers broad technical influence across the platform engineering group. The role emphasizes leadership, reliability, and strong backend engineering capabilities, with remote-friendly

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with distributed systems and backend services.
• Proven ability to design stateful, schedulable workflows in production.
• Strong API design, observability, and fault handling.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement the runtime responsible for agent and swarm execution, scheduling, state transitions, and tool calls.
• Build human-in-the-loop gates and control points for pausing, approvals, and safe resumption.
• Make orchestration reliable, observable, recoverable under partial failure and changing workloads.
• Define stable runtime APIs and abstractions for applied-AI and forward-deployed teams.
• Establish engineering standards for API design, failure handling, testing, operability, and production readiness.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship as the platform team grows.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Orchestration

Reliability engineering

Observability

Mentorship

Communication

Job description

Deliverance AI is seeking a staff engineer to own the execution engine behind customer agent workflows and multi-agent swarms. The role covers orchestration, scheduling, state management, tool use, human-in-the-loop controls, and production reliability.

Based in London or available remotely, the position offers broad technical influence across the platform engineering group. The role emphasizes leadership, reliability, and strong backend engineering capabilities, with remote-friendly