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Staff Engineer

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of professional engineering experience
  • Hands-on experience with Linux servers in production environments
  • Experience with agent orchestration, LLMs, or web scraping
  • Comfort working across distributed systems and cloud infrastructure

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate core infrastructure including APIs and workflows
  • Architect and maintain production-grade systems for performance and reliability
  • Own projects end-to-end from initial scoping through deployment
  • Collaborate with senior leadership on technical decisions and roadmap priorities

Key facts

Other skills

  • Reliability
  • Problem Solving
  • Collaboration
  • Time Management
  • Critical Thinking

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Job description

About the Role

This is a foundational engineering role at an early-stage AI/data startup, working directly alongside founding leadership to build the core infrastructure powering a real-time people data and AI agent platform. You'll have genuine end-to-end ownership — from ambiguous problem definition through production deployment — and a direct hand in shaping long-term technical strategy.

What You'll Do

  • Design, build, and operate core infrastructure including APIs, LLM-powered workflows, scraping systems, and large-scale knowledge graph architecture.

  • Architect and maintain production-grade systems capable of handling millions of API requests, with a focus on performance, cost efficiency, and reliability across cloud and Linux server environments.

  • Own projects end-to-end, from initial scoping through deployment and iteration, shipping quickly without compromising system integrity.

  • Collaborate directly with senior leadership on technical decisions, roadmap priorities, and foundational architectural choices.

  • Contribute broadly across the stack, including developer documentation, internal tooling, technical tutorials, and experimental builds that showcase and stress-test platform APIs.

What We're Looking For

  • 10+ years of professional engineering experience with a strong track record of shipping to production at scale.

  • Hands-on experience with Linux servers in production environments.

  • Experience with agent orchestration, LLMs, or web scraping.

  • Comfort working across distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP), data pipelines, and microservices.

  • High agency, first-principles thinking, and the ability to thrive in ambiguity.

  • Background at a high-growth tech company or early-stage startup; prior founding experience is a strong plus.

  • Must be authorized to work in the US — visa sponsorship is not available.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: $250,000 – $300,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in Los Angeles, CA, United States.

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