Staff Software Engineer - Agentic First

2 hours, 46 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Sonatype

Sonatype

Sonatype provides secure software development solutions by leveraging open source and artificial intelligence, ensuring that organizations can build applications quickly and safely through automated governance, policy enforcement, and comprehensive mon...

Internet Software & Services
51-250
Founded 2008
$155M raised

Description

  • Set technical direction and architect agentic-first subsystems, including services, data models, and agent/tool integrations.
  • Orchestrate multi-agent workflows across planning, implementation, testing, and review.
  • Own major product initiatives from ambiguous requirements through design, cross-team delivery, rollout, and ongoing operation.
  • Define evaluation frameworks, test harnesses, guardrails, observability, and review practices for agent-generated code.
  • Establish internal agentic engineering practices, tooling, playbooks, and training for engineering teams.
  • Own performance, reliability, security, and other non-functional requirements for the product area.
  • Address software supply chain threats including malicious packages, dependency confusion, provenance, and SBOM accuracy.
  • Collaborate with Product, Security Research, UX, and Support leaders to create shippable technical plans.
  • Conduct design reviews, mentor Senior engineers, and contribute to technical hiring standards.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of professional software development experience.
  • Track record leading multi-quarter technical initiatives across multiple teams or services.
  • Hands-on experience designing, operating, and scaling long-running multi-agent systems in production.
  • Experience with tools or frameworks such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor background agents, custom orchestrators, LangGraph, and MCP.
  • Expertise in shared context and memory, agent handoffs, orchestration, evaluation harnesses, testing, and observability.
  • Strong experience with Java, AWS, Azure, or GCP, and large-scale distributed systems.
  • Experience with performance tuning, data-intensive services, and production operability at scale.
  • Working knowledge of software supply chain security, including CycloneDX, SPDX, SCA, SLSA, Sigstore/cosign, OSV, and NVD.
  • Ability to independently make product decisions and manage scope, trade-offs, and sequencing.
  • Experience defining or advancing agentic engineering practices through internal rollouts, publications, or open-source work.

Benefits

  • Flexible working practices.
  • Parental leave policy.
  • Paid volunteer time off.
  • Diversity and inclusion working groups.
  • Equal-opportunity workplace with disability accommodations available.

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