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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # software engineer - **Company:** Apollo Credit Strategies ASP Fund, a series of Alternative Strategies Platform, LLC - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $185,000.0 - $230,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Engineering, Code Review, Continuous Integration, Data Stores, Node.Js, Performance Tuning, Software Tools, TypeScript, Data Logging, Large Language Models, Multi-Agent Systems, Backend, Kubernetes, Graphql, Front End Software Development, Api Gateway - **Published:** June 9, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.builtincolorado.com/job/staff-software-engineer-ai-runtime/7568482 ## About the Role * Proven experience designing and operating distributed, multi-tenant backend systems in production * Strong understanding of consistency models, failure modes, resiliency patterns, and scalability tradeoffs * Experience building platforms / control planes: APIs, data models, and workflows that other teams build on * Strong proficiency in at least one modern backend language (e.g., TypeScript/Node, Go, Rust, Java, or similar) * Solid experience with datastores (relational + one of: key-value, document, or time-series) and data modeling * Hands-on experience owning services in production: on-call, incident response, postmortems * Strong grasp of observability (metrics, tracing, logging), SLOs, and capacity/performance tuning * History of designing for "boring" production behavior: safety, rollback paths, migrations, incremental delivery * Ability to drive system design for complex features spanning multiple services and teams * Comfortable working with infrastructure (CI/CD, deployment, config, runtime) and partnering with frontend engineers to deliver end-to-end experiences * Experience working closely with Product and Design to define scope, prioritize, and iterate * Strong written and verbal communication, especially for async collaboration and design reviews Bonus * Familiarity with GraphQL, GraphOS-like platforms, or API gateways * Exposure to AI agents, tool / function calling, or agent orchestration platforms * Experience modeling tools/APIs for LLMs or building infrastructure for AI-powered systems * Experience with cloud-native architectures (Kubernetes, containers, service meshes) * Experience driving technical standards (operability, security, testing, code review norms) ## Description This is a high-impact, cross-functional role that goes far beyond a single service. You'll drive innovation across the entire stack from high-performance backend services and control-plane APIs to core artifact pipelines and the intuitive customer-facing web applications. You will collaborate closely with Product, Design, and diverse engineering teams to deliver world-class solutions. * Own critical Registry domains: Take technical ownership of core systems such as schema and service lifecycle, artifact pipelines, or registry workflows. * Lead high-impact initiatives: Serve as technical lead on cross-team efforts involving platform, security, runtime, and observability partners. * Design platform primitives: Build APIs, data models, and workflows that internal teams and customers depend on. * Operate what you build: Participate in on-call, incident response, and postmortems. 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