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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform (US - Remote or Calgary) - **Company:** Syndio, Inc. - **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $205,000.0 - $225,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Audit Trail, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Large Language Models, Backend, AI Platforms, Kubernetes, Api Design, Stream Processing - **Published:** August 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=b42c9909b35c9e12 ## About the Role * 5+ years building production backend systems; deep comfort with Python, relational stores, and cloud infra (we're on GCP/Kubernetes). * You've built LLM-powered systems in production - an agent loop, tool-calling integration, RAG, or eval infrastructure - and have opinions from the scar tissue. * You design for operability: legal compliance, tracing, evals, and kill switches are part of the feature, not afterthoughts. * You can own a technical domain with light supervision: propose direction in writing with clear API specs, take review, ship, and carry the pager for what you shipped. * Strong written communication - our operating model runs on design docs and PR review across team boundaries. * Nice to have: experience being the platform side of a platform/product relationship; SSE/streaming systems; compliance-adjacent engineering (data minimization, auditability); prior Staff scope., * Recruiter Screen (25 min) * Hiring Manager Interview (30 min) * Technical Evaluation - Design Skills (60 min) * Crossfunctional Team Interviews (2 x 30 min) ## Description Do you want to empower organizations to build smarter compensation strategies while ensuring fair pay for all employees?, Syndi is Syndio's AI platform - one shared agent experience (in-product chat, Slack, Teams) serving our product lines, built on syndi-api: an agent runtime owning orchestration, tool calling, memory, RAG, evals, and observability, live in production today. The platform is young (v1 shipped this quarter), moving fast, and designed around a clear operating model: product teams contribute domain content through APIs, evals, and knowledge - the platform owns the experience. We're hiring a staff-level engineer to take ownership of major runtime surfaces and grow into a technical owner of the platform. This is a high-autonomy role on a small team (3-4 engineers): you'll design, ship, and operate systems end-to-end, and you'll work directly with product-team owners through the platform's contribution seams., * Core runtime surfaces of syndi-api: the agent loop, tool execution and registry, memory, context management (Python, Postgres, Claude on Vertex, GCP). * The eval system - offline gates and online detector/judge evals written onto production traces - and its growth as product teams adopt it. * Production operation: observability (Datadog LLM Obs), incident response, the reliability of an agent surface real customers use. * The platform's contribution seams: reviewing product teams' tool wrappers and evals, evolving the GET /tools registry and drift-detection contract. * Clarifying, designing, and implementing compliance and legal requirements for Syndi., * First 30 days: Focus on onboarding, mastering our core agent runtime surfaces, and shipping a small-scale contribution to understand the platform's contribution seams. * First 60 days: Independently manage core runtime surfaces, troubleshoot complex issues, and start co-owning a consumer team's integration from API design to eval sign-off. * First 90 days: Concretely ship a major runtime capability end-to-end (e.g., multimodal input or a new channel surface), take on-call for the platform, and co-own a consumer team's integration from API design to eval sign-off., Below you'll find an outline of the interview plan for our Senior Software Engineer (AI Platform) position. 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