Senior Software Engineer, AI Agentic Platform

Job overview

The Senior Software Engineer, AI Agentic Platform role is hybrid, with at least four days per week onsite in Seattle, WA. The anticipated base salary is $177,000–$216,000 per year. The role supports Metropolis’s AI platform and its checkout-free real-world experiences. The engineer will architect and build agent infrastructure, orchestration, and developer tools so product teams can deploy autonomous workflows safely and efficiently. The work also advances reliability, performance, evaluation, and security across AI systems.

What you'll do

• Design agent platform infrastructure, orchestration pipelines, tool-use abstractions, MCP integrations, and context and memory systems
• architect LLM inference routing, caching, and semantic search
• establish evaluation, tracing, and observability
• build agent SDKs and CI/CD automation
• implement guardrails, rate limits, sandboxing, and security policies
• make architectural decisions and mentor peers.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior software engineer

ai agentic platform

seattle wa

metropolis

hybrid

4 days in office

distributed systems

llm orchestration

python

java

typescript

kubernetes

aws

$177k–$216k annually

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Potential access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan, short- and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, stock options, and bonus plans.

Why this role

Office-first model requires at least four onsite days weekly. Benefits may include healthcare, 401(k), disability coverage, life insurance, stock options, and bonus plans.

About the employer

Metropolis is hiring for this role. Industry: Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services. Sector: 51.