Staff Software Engineer, AI Agent Infra (Remote)

Ladders; United States; Remote; USD 208,000 - 365,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equitable workplace culture

Flexible hybrid options

Professional growth opportunities

Equity options

Collaborative cross-functional teams

Job summary

Ladders is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Ads Agent Infra, to shape durable execution platforms for stateful AI agent workflows. Remote role with a focus on standardized servers and SDKs, observability, governance, and cross-team alignment across the engineering org.

The role emphasizes driving design decisions, enabling reliable systems, and using AI to prototype and accelerate development while ensuring high-quality outputs and scalable testing pipelines.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with distributed systems and microservices.
• Hands-on experience with LLM agent frameworks (LangGraph, Claude Agent SDK).
• Ability to set technical direction and align cross-functional teams.
• Experience with multi-tenant security and LLM observability frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain durable execution platforms for stateful AI agent workflows.
• Design standardized Model Context Protocol servers and SDKs for engineering adoption.
• Establish observability and governance for multi-agent systems.
• Drive technical strategy and create foundational design documentation.
• Leverage AI for design prototyping and code iteration with quality.
• Automate testing and evaluation pipelines for agent skills and memory services.

Skills

Distributed systems

LLM agent frameworks

Technical leadership

LLM observability

AI optimization

AI evaluation

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science

Tools

LangGraph

Claude Agent SDK

Job description

Ladders is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Ads Agent Infra, to shape durable execution platforms for stateful AI agent workflows. Remote role with a focus on standardized servers and SDKs, observability, governance, and cross-team alignment across the engineering org.

The role emphasizes driving design decisions, enabling reliable systems, and using AI to prototype and accelerate development while ensuring high-quality outputs and scalable testing pipelines.