Staff Software Engineer · Agent Runtime

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

Role overview

Own the execution engine that runs customer agent workflows and multi-agent swarms in production. This staff-level role covers orchestration, scheduling, state management, tool use, human-in-the-loop controls, and the reliability characteristics required for a core platform service. The position is based in London or available remotely, with broad technical influence across the platform engineering group.

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 that allow workflows to pause, seek approval, or safely resume.
• Make orchestration reliable, observable, recoverable, and diagnosable under partial failure and changing workloads.
• Define stable runtime APIs and abstractions for applied-AI and forward-deployed engineering teams.
• Establish engineering standards for API design, failure handling, testing, operability, and production readiness.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship as the platform team grows.

Requirements

• Deep experience with distributed systems and backend engineering, especially reliable execution or orchestration services.
• Track record of designing systems that manage state, scheduling, retries, failures, and recovery in production.
• Strong judgment around API design, observability, operational behavior, and fault handling.
• Experience with large-language-model or agent runtimes is valuable, though the core requirement is robust systems engineering.
• Staff-level technical leadership, including the ability to set direction across teams and raise engineering quality.
• Effective mentorship and communication skills for working with engineers across platform and applied product areas.

Benefits and work setup

• Staff full-time role with London or remote working options.
• Remote-friendly arrangements across the UK, EU, and selected global time zones.
• Equity participation and cash compensation benchmarked to leading London and remote markets.