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Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Agentic AI)

Summary

Design and operate agentic AI systems that reason over time-series data and hardware context, building APIs, distributed systems, and evaluation suites in Go/Python/Rust.


  • Talk directly to customers and partner with product to turn real review workflows into agent capabilities

  • Design, ship, and operate agentic systems that reason over large-scale time-series data and hardware domain context

  • Build everything around the model that makes agents dependable, including tool interfaces and sandboxed code execution

  • Build distributed systems that allow long-running agent work streams in real time

  • Design job-based execution systems for Kubernetes in the cloud and on-premises

  • Develop and maintain Sift’s MCP server for direct telemetry querying

  • Design and implement APIs powering agentic capabilities

  • Build evaluation suites to measure agents’ impact on engineers and instrument qualities in production

  • Integrate and assess frontier models across providers


Requirements



  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience

  • Experience building APIs (REST, gRPC, etc.) and complex backend services with technologies like Go, Python, Rust, or similar

  • Working knowledge of distributed systems fundamentals

  • Curiosity about new AI products and tools

  • Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual (asylee or refugee) in compliance with ITAR/EAR regulations


Core Competencies


Demonstrates expertise in building and operating distributed systems, designing APIs, and developing agentic capabilities using programming languages such as Go, Python, and Rust. Strong understanding of cloud technologies, Kubernetes, and compliance with ITAR/EAR regulations is essential.


Highest-signal resume keywords



  • API Development

  • Distributed Systems

  • Kubernetes

  • Go Programming

  • Python Programming


ATS Optimization Keywords


Hard Skills



  • API Development

  • Distributed Systems

  • Backend Services

  • Go Programming

  • Python Programming

  • Rust Programming

  • Telemetry Querying

  • Time-Series Data Analysis

  • Sandboxed Code Execution

  • Evaluation Suite Development


Soft Skills



  • Curiosity


Industry Keywords



  • ITAR

  • EAR

  • Agentic Systems

  • Telemetry

  • AI Products


Tools & Technologies



  • Kubernetes

  • Cloud Technologies

  • GRPC

  • REST

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