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Staff Software Engineer, AI/Agentic Systems

Equinix · Redwood City, CA · 1 wk ago
HybridInformation TechnologyFull-time

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Staff Engineer to lead the design, build, and adoption of AI-powered agentic systems across our Developer Experience platform. This is a highly technical, high-impact role at the intersection of platform engineering and applied AI.

Responsibilities

  • Agentic Execution Framework Architect and build the event-driven execution framework that enables agent-assisted workflows across delivery, operations, and policy systems (e.g., PR automation agents, CI failure triage, onboarding agents)

  • Design and implement human-in-the-loop approval queues, error handling, retry logic, and guardrail enforcement to ensure safe, auditable agent execution in a regulated enterprise environment

  • Define the execution contract — how agents are invoked, what permissions they hold, how outcomes are recorded — across all platform integrations

  • Claude Code Integration & Developer Evangelism Lead the platform-native integration of Claude Code into scaffold templates, CI failure triage, PR assist workflows, and the developer portal's 'what should I work on?' agent

  • Build and run an internal evangelism and adoption program for agentic development practices — demos, workshops, documentation, and a developer advocate community

  • Partner with engineering teams to identify high-value automation opportunities and convert them into governed, reusable agent workflows

  • Agent Registry & Lifecycle Design and build a governed catalog of approved agents — metadata, capabilities, trust boundaries, versioning, and usage policies — ensuring agents are discoverable, auditable, and compliant

  • Implement lifecycle management for agent versioning and permissions, including deployment pipeline integration, rollback, and decommissioning with full audit trails

  • Platform Security & Governance Define and enforce the security posture for agent execution: scoped permissions, least-privilege identity models, execution isolation, and immutable audit logging

  • Collaborate with security, compliance, and platform governance teams to ensure all agent execution meets enterprise policy requirements

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years focused on platform engineering, developer tooling, or applied AI/ML systems

  • Track record of leading technically ambiguous, high-impact projects — from architecture through to production adoption — in a large engineering organization

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to translate complex technical concepts for both engineering and leadership audiences

  • Prior experience building internal developer platforms, golden-path tooling, or developer experience products is strongly preferred

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