Staff Software Engineer — AI-Driven, Domain Leverage

Invoca; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Day-One Health Benefits

Mental Wellbeing

Wellness Subsidy

Flexible Time Off

Paid Holidays

Paid Family Leave

Paid Medical Leave

401(k) with company match

Sabbatical after seven years

Job summary

Invoca is seeking Senior and Staff-level engineers to own strategic phases of our engineering lifecycle in AI-powered, agentic workflows. You will define what excellence looks like in your domain, build reusable platforms, and partner across engineering, product, and business teams to drive measurable business outcomes.

Your scope includes translating technical choices into business value, increasing delivery speed, and ensuring safety and observability as AI becomes a core collaborator across

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience (Senior) or 8+ years (Staff) with deep expertise in your engineering specialization, with a track record of measurable impact in production environments.
• Experience building systems, tools, or practices that were adopted broadly because they demonstrably improved speed, quality, or safety.
• Curiosity about AI and agentic workflows, and a track record of practically applying new tools rather than just being interested in them.
• Strong technical judgment with a bias toward simplicity and adoption over theoretical completeness.
• Ability to connect technical work to business and customer outcomes, and to communicate that connection clearly.
• Experience partnering across engineering, product, and business functions.
• High ownership mindset, curiosity, and urgency in a fast-moving, evolving technical environment.

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end accountability for a critical stage of Invoca's engineering lifecycle in your domain, whether that's reliability, security, data, quality, delivery, customer deployment, or architecture.
• Define what "great" looks like in your domain and hold the bar, rather than waiting for it to be defined for you.
• Identify where AI and agentic workflows can meaningfully improve your domain: faster incident detection, smarter test generation, automated security review, adaptive data pipelines, self-healing deployments, or similar.
• Establish safe, observable, and auditable ways to bring AI into your workflows, and help the teams around you adopt them with confidence.
• Build shared practices, tooling, or platforms in your domain that every team can adopt, replacing one-off, team-specific approaches.
• Treat your domain as a product with internal users: define adoption goals and measure whether teams are actually better off because of your work.
• Translate technical decisions in your domain into terms leadership and product teams care about: velocity, cost, risk, customer trust, and revenue impact.
• Partner with engineering and product leadership to prioritize your work based on measurable business and customer impact, not technical elegance alone.
• Drive direction and standards across multiple teams in your area of expertise.
• Influence decisions through clarity, judgment, and evidence, and act as a trusted advisor to engineering and product leadership.

Skills

5+ years experience

8+ years experience (Staff)

engineering specialization

technical judgment

ownership mindset

Job description

Invoca is seeking Senior and Staff-level engineers to own strategic phases of our engineering lifecycle in AI-powered, agentic workflows. You will define what excellence looks like in your domain, build reusable platforms, and partner across engineering, product, and business teams to drive measurable business outcomes.

Your scope includes translating technical choices into business value, increasing delivery speed, and ensuring safety and observability as AI becomes a core collaborator across