SeniorStaff Software Engineer (Platform and Execution Model)

About Us

Co-founded in 2023 by Joe Laws and Grant Verstandig Trase Systems is AI Uncomplicated. Trase empowers enterprise leaders to harness the full potential of AI without the associated complexity and risks. We are an end-to-end solution for deploying managing and optimizing AI in the enterprise. Our platform specializes in bridging the last mile of AI adoption unlocking AIs full potential while driving efficiency and significant cost savings. Trase is at the forefront of AI Agent innovation topping the Hugging Face GAIA Leaderboard for Generalized AI Assistants ahead of industry giants such as Google Meta Microsoft and OpenAI. We are leveraging our cutting-edge technologies to develop mission-critical agentic applications in complex industries such as Healthcare Oil & Gas and National Security.

About The Role

As a Senior or Staff Software Engineer youll build and own critical parts of Trase OS the shared platform that powers Trase deployments in regulated environments. Youll work on the distributed systems and platform primitives connecting workflows agents tools and product surfaces with a particular focus on reliability scalability and correctness.

Youll take on technically ambiguous problems design solutions and drive them through production. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who is comfortable going deep on distributed systems while helping other engineers make sound architectural decisions.

Clean abstractions and correctness-under-failure are critical because we operate long-lived agents in healthcare/defense environments where auditability and reliability are non-negotiable.

The level will reflect your experience and demonstrated scope. Staff-level candidates will be expected to lead architecture across teams establish engineering standards and mentor other engineers.

Why This Role is Needed

Trase OS is an orchestration-heavy system coordinating long-lived workflows agents and tools across multiple services and environments.

As the platform evolves the primary risks shift from implementation to system design quality:

• Poor abstractions create tight coupling across services
• Workflow execution becomes difficult to reason about under failure
• Platform capabilities fragment instead of becoming reusable primitives
• Scaling introduces complexity instead of leverage

This role exists to:

• Design and implement clean durable abstractions for the platform execution model
• Ensure correctness and determinism in workflow execution
• Translate evolving product requirements into coherent platform architecture
• Enable teams to build on Trase OS without introducing systemic complexity

What Makes This Role Challenging

• You are designing systems where failure is the norm not the exception and correctness must be preserved across retries restarts and partial execution
• You must balance clean abstractions with real-world constraints (performance security multi-tenant environments)
• Decisions made here become foundational primitives used across all products and teams
• The system must remain understandable and auditable even as complexity and scale increase

Responsibilities

• Design build and own critical components of the core execution model (state machine lifecycle resource model failure semantics)
• Build reliable distributed systems that behave predictably across retries restarts partial failures and concurrent execution.
• Develop platform APIs/SDKs connecting workflows agents tools and product surfaces; drive versioning & compatibility
• Guarantee correctness via idempotency deterministic replays compensating actions and data integrity
• Engineer reliability at scale: concurrency controls rate limits backpressure sharding/partitioning and workload isolation
• Build security & governance into the core: RBAC/ABAC policy enforcement fine-grained audit & lineage
• Deliver observability: distributed tracing structured logs metrics and evaluation hooks; build an explainable trail of agent actions
• Own quality: design reviews test strategy (unit property chaos) performance baselines SLOs incident response and postmortems
• Mentor engineers contribute to design reviews and help establish strong engineering patterns across the platform.

Requirements

• 8 years of experience building distributed/platform systems including significant experience defining architecture across teams or domains
• 4 years owning mission-critical runtimes or workflow/orchestration systems
• Deep expertise with durable execution (e.g. state machines event sourcing saga/compensation idempotency exactly/at-least-once semantics)
• Proven track record with security & governance in production systems (auth RBAC audit policy)
• Hands-on with observability (Grafana or equivalent) including trace correlation across async boundaries
• Strong systems design across storage queues schedulers and evented architectures; performance tuning under load
• Excellence in a modern language (e.g. Go Rust Java or TypeScript) and cloud-native stacks (containers CI/CD IaC)
• Comfortable operating in regulated or high-assurance environments; bias toward correctness clarity and documentation
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to influence design decisions within a team and across closely related engineering areas.
• Ability to incorporate advance LLM capabilities into system design and platform architecture decisions where appropriate

Nice to Have

• Prior work on workflow engines (Temporal/Cadence/AWS Step Functions Argo Airflow) or serverless runtimes
• Experience with policy engines (OPA) secrets/KMS or data-handling controls (PII/PHI)
• ML/LLM evaluation frameworks tool/plugin architectures or embedding model governance into execution
• Government or healthcare experience (HIPAA audit readiness) and multi-tenant isolation

If you want to be on the cutting edge of technology building AI solutions for the future and are up for a challenge lets talk!

Salary Range: $00. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience skills and other factors.

Some travel to customers may be required.

Our Trase Benefits:

For full-time roles only

• Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement withstrong performanceas the firm grows
• 100% employer paid comprehensive health care including medical dental and vision for you and your family.
• Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees normal pay.
• Unlimited PTO with management approval.
• Opportunities for professional development and continued learning.
• Optional 401K FSA and equity incentives available.
• Mental health benefits are available through Tara Mind .

Were an Equal Opportunity Employer: Youll receive consideration for employment without regard to race sex color religion sexual orientation gender identity national origin protected veteran status or on the basis of disability.

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