Senior Software Engineer

Role Description

StratusGrid delivers a high-trust, high-competence customer experience around cloud optimization, and we’re productizing that expertise into our agentic platform, Stratusphere. This role is for a versatile software engineer who can help build the core software platform, the backend infrastructure running agents, and the agents and tooling that discovers, contextualizes, plans, and executes work for our customers.

• Work closely with customer success and human in the loop teams, as well as directly with customers.
• Rapidly test, implement, and mature solutions that make our system increasingly autonomous.
• Address problems ranging from discovery and contextualization of complex cost inefficiencies in cloud infrastructure to designing and implementing web interfaces.
• Utilize agent-first development practices in a product designed for agent-first development.

Responsibilities

• Agent-First Software Development: Actively utilize and oversee AI agents to rapidly test, implement, and mature software solutions across the web platform, backend services, infrastructure, data pipelines, and agent tooling that make up the Stratusphere platform.
• Engineering Judgment & Scrutiny: Serve as the ultimate source of judgment for AI-generated plans and code contributed to the Stratusphere platform.
• Add to the Foundation: Stay current with the latest methods and best practices for improving velocity, quality, and maintainability with agent-first development approaches.
• Collaborative System Design: Partner closely with engineering, product, and customer-facing teams to design and evolve the Stratusphere platform.
• Agent Improvement Feedback Loop: Improve agentic architecture, tooling, and prompts to solve for patterns in agent errors and blind spots.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work in high-visibility channels with Engineering, Product, and Customer teams.
• Execution with Reliability & Urgency: Own work end-to-end with a strong sense of responsibility.
• Product Partnership & Roadmap Input: Partner with Product to test solutions to customer problems and recurring friction.
• Operational Excellence & Standards: Follow StratusGrid customer experience standards, change control processes, documentation expectations, and work-system hygiene.

Qualifications

• Multi-Language Proficiency: Deep expertise in at least one language (preferably Typescript) combined with proficiency in overseeing agentic delivery of solutions in other languages.
• Skillful Tester: Skilled in architecting services to allow for layered testing.
• Frontend Experience: Experience contributing to frontend applications, especially NextJS or other React frameworks.
• Familiar with Coding Agents: Familiar with coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI.
• Multifaceted Database Expertise: Experience querying large datasets with tools like AWS Athena or DuckDB.
• CICD Experience: Experience building, maintaining, and using tools like GitHub actions.
• AWS and IaC Expertise: Proven ability to build and change infrastructure in production AWS environments.
• Observability: Experience integrating observability tooling into software.
• Excellent Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Problem Solving Mindset: Proven ability to work through ambiguity and implement solutions.
• Strong Ownership & Urgency: Track record of meeting commitments and maintaining high standards.
• AI as a Daily Tool: Demonstrated habit of using AI tools to deliver high quality work.
• Travel: Willingness and ability to travel periodically for team planning sessions.
• Remote-Work-Ready: Equipped to work effectively in a distributed team environment.
• Authorized to work: Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

Nice-to-have / Differentiators

• Located in the Chattanooga, Nashville, Knoxville, or Atlanta Metro area.
• Experience working with iceberg or other datalake formats and tools like DBT.
• Strong grasp of DevOps principles and operational tooling.
• Strong working knowledge of cloud IAM/RBAC and least-privilege operations.
• Ability to work effectively within constrained access and compliance requirements.