Staff Software Engineer, Automations

About the role

Join our Automations team to help shape, scale, and evolve the automation engine at the core of our platform. This role plays a pivotal part in designing agentic workflows, orchestrating complex distributed systems, and driving the technical direction of the automation stack.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of technical implementation and help define the long-term architectural direction of our automation platform.
• Build and maintain a resilient, observable, event-driven system that powers our automation engine.
• Develop workflow orchestration patterns and contribute to system-wide best practices.
• Design, implement, and scale highly reliable automations using agentic workflows and AI tooling, including code generation, automated review, and agentic development patterns, while helping establish team norms around AI-augmented engineering.
• Mentor engineers, provide technical guidance, and help elevate peers across the Automation team.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with SOC, Core, and Integrations to expand and refine automation capabilities.

Requirements

• Expert-level proficiency with Python and hands-on experience working in production-grade systems (recent experience is a must).
• Demonstrated experience using AI tools to accelerate engineering work, whether through AI-assisted development, prompt-driven automation, or integrating LLMs into production systems.
• Strong communication and mentoring skills with a demonstrated ability to raise team capability.
• Experience orchestrating workflows using modern orchestration tools or frameworks.
• Deep understanding of event-driven system design and distributed architectures.
• Deep, production-level AWS experience across services like Lambda, ECS/EKS, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, and CloudWatch in the context of event-driven and automation workloads.

Qualifications

• This role requires advanced proficiency in English to effectively communicate complex information with team members and stakeholders, and to complete job-related documentation and collaboration tasks.

Skills

• Hands-on production experience with Prefect, Airflow, Dagster, or Temporal for orchestrating multi-step, stateful workflows at scale (nice to have).
• Experience deploying and operating containerized services on Kubernetes, including writing Helm charts, managing cluster resources, and troubleshooting pod-level failures (nice to have).
• Background building and maintaining scrapers at scale, including handling anti-bot measures, rate limiting, schema drift, and silent failures from target sites (nice to have).

Benefits

• On-Call: Yes, approximately every 6 to 8 weeks.
• Travel: If remote, quarterly travel to Nashville for onsite collaboration.

Pay

Compensation: $180,000 to $210,000 base salary + bonus + equity

Schedule

Hybrid, Nashville TN (remote candidates welcome with quarterly travel to Nashville)