(Sr/Staff) Software Engineer - Agentic Platform

Role Description

As a Sr/Staff Engineer on the Agent Platform team, you will design and build the core infrastructure that makes this possible. You will own the platform APIs, orchestration layers, and runtime systems that power Terzo's AI agents, NirvanAI search, and the marketplace where customers deploy autonomous intelligence against their most critical commercial data. The services you build will be the substrate every AI-powered experience at Terzo runs on.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building backend systems or developer platforms in distributed, cloud-native environments
• Experience building platforms where AI capabilities are first-class primitives, not bolted-on features
• Strong API design instincts for services processing highly sensitive enterprise data
• Solid understanding of relational and non-relational data stores, data modeling, and performance optimization
• Strong backend development especially Python
• Comfortable making architectural decisions with incomplete information
• Strong product intuition where you understand why something is being built, not just how
• High ownership mentality where you treat system reliability and customer outcomes as your responsibility

Requirements

• Experience building agent orchestration systems, tool-use runtimes, or autonomous reasoning infrastructure in production
• Prior work on workflow engines, state machines, or event-driven systems coordinating long-running, multi-step processes
• Background in B2B SaaS, enterprise data platforms, or financial systems where correctness and auditability are non-negotiable
• Exposure to graph databases, knowledge graph systems, or commercial ontology modeling
• Familiarity with streaming technologies (Kafka, Azure Service Bus) or distributed compute frameworks (Ray)
• Prior work at a high-growth startup where you built platform foundations other teams shipped on top of

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Annual performance bonus
• Employee stock option plan
• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) with employer contribution
• Generous vacation and sick leave
• Flexible work arrangements
• High-quality equipment for home and office
• Strong culture of collaboration, mentorship, and continuous improvement