Staff Software Engineer (Agentic Engineering)

About this role

Shape and build the systems behind Coder’s agentic development experience, spanning agent execution, integrations, and workflows. The role combines hands-on engineering with setting technical direction, leading complex projects, and mentoring engineers.

About the company

Coder provides cloud development environments and AI development infrastructure that helps enterprises provision, govern, and secure developer workspaces.

The team

Agentic Engineering team

Stack

What you'll do

• Set technical direction for the agent harness, integrations, and workflows
• Build production systems primarily in Go, with React and TypeScript as needed
• Evolve agent execution, tool use, context management, streaming, and long-running workflows
• Lead complex projects from ambiguity through production
• Improve system reliability, performance, and operability
• Provide technical mentorship and raise engineering standards

What we're looking for

• 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 and working knowledge of AWS
• Track record of setting technical direction without formal authority

Nice to have

• 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 direct customer experience

Benefits

• Equity
• Bonus

Hiring process

1. Interview process is expected to take two to four weeks, schedules permitting
2. Interviews with individual contributors, managers, and senior leaders