Senior Software Engineer — AI Agents and Distributed Systems

Job overview

The Senior Software Engineer — AI Agents and Distributed Systems role is hybrid in San Francisco, CA, with three days per week onsite. Compensation is $170,000–$311,000 per year, plus equity. The role supports an AI-native go-to-market platform used by hundreds of thousands of businesses worldwide. The engineer will own core platform systems end-to-end, building and operating distributed systems and AI-native agent capabilities while ensuring reliability, performance, and cost are managed as the product scales.

What you'll do

• Own significant systems and features from design through production and day-to-day operation
• build and operate large-scale distributed systems
• drive ambiguous problems to shipped outcomes while owning reliability, performance, and cost
• build AI-native agent systems used at scale.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

full-time

hybrid

san francisco ca

senior software engineer

ai agents

distributed systems

backend engineering

full-stack engineering

ruby on rails

python

mongodb

elasticsearch

$170k–$311k

visa transfers

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Equity, autonomy, and a tooling budget
• visa transfers are supported.

Why this role

Hybrid schedule requires three days per week onsite. Visa transfers, including OPT and H-1B transfers, are supported. Technology stack includes React, Ruby/Rails, Python, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, GCP/Kubernetes, Kafka, and Terraform.

About the employer

David Joseph & Company is hiring for this role. Industry: Software Publishers. Sector: 51.