Staff Software Engineer

Who you are

• Deep experience building and operating production software systems
• Strong hands-on experience with Go
• Experience with React and TypeScript
• Hands-on experience building systems around LLMs and agentic workflows
• Experience with model APIs, tool calling, context management, or agent loops
• Strong distributed systems knowledge
• Working knowledge of AWS
• A track record of setting technical direction without formal authority
• Strong architectural judgment and comfort working through ambiguity
• Someone who makes the engineers around them better
• (Tacos? If you need an ice-breaker, ask how we say thanks by giving tacos!)
• Experience building coding agents, developer tools, or cloud development environments
• Experience with agent tools, or multi-agent systems
• Experience building abstractions across multiple model providers
• Deep experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker and Linux
• Open-source contributions or experience working directly with customers

What the job involves

• As a Staff Software Engineer on Coder’s Agentic Engineering team, you’ll shape the systems behind our agentic development experience
• You’ll work across the agent harness, integrations, and workflows that connect agents with real development environments
• You’ll stay hands-on while setting the team's technical direction
• You’ll lead complex work, make sound architectural decisions, and help other engineers do their best work
• Set technical direction across Coder’s agent harness, integrations, and workflows
• Design and build production systems in Go, with work across React and TypeScript where needed
• Evolve agent execution, tool use, context management, streaming, and long-running workflows
• Extend our provider-agnostic architecture as models and capabilities change
• Lead complex projects from early ambiguity through production
• Raise the engineering bar through design reviews, code reviews, and technical mentorship
• Partner with Product and Design on clear, useful agent experiences
• Improve the reliability, performance, and operability of agentic systems
• Our tech stack:
• Backend: Go, Postgres
• Frontend: TypeScript, React
• Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions

Benefits

• Generous medical / dental / vision coverage
• 4% 401(k) match
• Fertility benefits through Carrot Fertility and generous parental leave
• Monthly “perks” stipend for wellness, learning and development, travel, etc
• Flexible time off
• Remote work from anywhere, or join our Austin or San Francisco offices
• Annual workstation allowance for your home office
• Paid sabbatical after 5 years