Staff Engineer, Agentic Developer Platform

About the role

Panorama is a technology company focused on helping K-12 school systems understand student needs and take effective action. We connect academic, attendance, behavior, and engagement data with AI to provide educators with a comprehensive view of each student and the tools to make informed decisions. With operations in 2,000 districts and serving 15 million students nationwide, we aim to shape educational possibilities and improve learning outcomes.

Requirements

• What You'll Do:
  • Design and own the company's core AI infrastructure, including shared systems, integration patterns, and runtime environments.
  • Make foundational decisions that enable other teams to build on, such as model selection, orchestration patterns, data access layers, and deployment standards.
  • Create the tooling and operational layer necessary for teams to trust what they deploy, including logging, evaluation, cost tracking, latency monitoring, and feedback loops.
  • Design and build the company's agent framework and skill library, reusable building blocks for automating workflows, connecting systems, or extending AI capabilities.
  • Support internal teams in going from ideas to working AI-powered workflows by providing technical scaffolding, guidance, and support.
  • Maintain a feedback loop with internal customers to ensure the platform evolves based on actual usage patterns.
  • Define standards and governance for responsible AI adoption and evolution, ensuring safety, reliability, and quality across teams.
  • Contribute to organizational-wide technical discussions, applying a platform and infrastructure lens to decisions affecting AI work across the company.
• What We're Looking For:
  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with depth in platform, infrastructure, or developer tooling.
  • Experience building shared systems that other engineers build on and an understanding of what makes internal platforms successful or problematic.
  • Hands-on experience with production AI systems and a track record of enabling other builders to work with those systems confidently.
  • Strong instincts for API and abstraction design, balancing the right level of exposure and hiding unnecessary complexity.
  • Familiarity with MCP or similar tool-use and integration patterns.
  • A track record of scoping and delivering greenfield technical work, including making early architectural decisions that hold up over time.
  • A collaborative and transparent approach, leading cross-functional alignment without formal authority.
  • A clear-eyed perspective on the difference between demo-quality AI and production-ready AI, and experience in bridging these gaps.
  • A proactive attitude in seeking out product and cross-functional context to drive the work forward across teams, not just within engineering.
• Nice to Have:
  • Experience with multi-agent orchestration frameworks.
  • Background in internal developer platforms, enablement engineering, or technical program leadership.
  • Experience in defining and rolling out engineering standards across a multi-team organization.

Benefits

• Base Salary: $233,750 - $343,750 annually.
• Annual bonuses or commission awards.
• Equity awards.
• Region-specific health and welfare benefits, including:
• 401(k) with an employer match.
• Health, dental, vision, life insurance, and short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Flexible spending account for healthcare and dependent care.
• Wellness reimbursement.
• Work from home reimbursement.
• Flexible vacation policy.
• Parental leave program.
• Company-issued laptop.