Shape the systems behind Coder’s agentic development experience as a Staff Software Engineer on the Agentic Engineering team.
Posted by employer 2 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 month ago
Last verified on the company career page 5 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
Role intensity
50% coding
AI in the day-to-day
As an AI company, Coder embraces the use of AI tools in the recruitment process but does not specify daily engineering usage.
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
In the role of Staff Software Engineer on Coder's Agentic Engineering team, the individual will focus on shaping and enhancing the systems that facilitate agentic development experiences. Key skills include strong proficiency in Go, along with experience in React and TypeScript, as well as a solid understanding of distributed systems and AWS. This position is ideal for someone with significant experience in production software systems who can lead complex projects and mentor other engineers. Coder's innovative environment emphasizes collaboration with Product and Design teams to create effective agent experiences.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze September 3, 2026. Last confirmed on Coder's careers page October 29, 2026.
- AWS appears in 34% of 579 comparable staff backend roles; GitHub Actions appears in 1% of 579 comparable staff backend roles.
Quick facts
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Staff Software Engineer (Agentic Engineering) role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, GitHub Actions, Go, Grafana, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Coder targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Staff Software Engineer (Agentic Engineering) role at Coder.
From the original posting
As a Staff Software Engineer on Coder’s Agentic Engineering team, you’ll shape the systems behind our agentic development experience. You’ll work across the agent harness, integrations, and workflows that connect agents with real development environments.
You’ll stay hands-on while setting the team's technical direction. You’ll lead complex work, make sound architectural decisions, and help other engineers do their best work.
What you’ll do here
Set technical direction across Coder’s agent harness, integrations, and workflows.
Design and build production systems in Go, with work across React and TypeScript where needed.
Evolve agent execution, tool use, context management, streaming, and long-running workflows.
Extend our provider-agnostic architecture as models and capabilities change.
Lead complex projects from early ambiguity through production.
Raise the engineering bar through design reviews, code reviews, and technical mentorship.
Partner with Product and Design on clear, useful agent experiences.
Improve the reliability, performance, and operability of agentic systems.
What we’re looking for
Deep experience building and operating production software systems.
Strong hands-on experience with Go.
Experience with React and TypeScript.
Hands-on experience building systems around LLMs and agentic workflows.
Experience with model APIs, tool calling, context management, or agent loops.
Strong distributed systems knowledge.
Working knowledge of AWS.
A track record of setting technical direction without formal authority.
Strong architectural judgment and comfort working through ambiguity.
Someone who makes the engineers around them better.
Our tech stack
Backend: Go, Postgres
Frontend: TypeScript, React
Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes
Observability: Prometheus, Grafana
CI/CD: GitHub Actions
Bonus tacos if you have
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Experience building coding agents, developer tools, or cloud development environments.
Experience with agent tools, or multi-agent systems.
Experience building abstractions across multiple model providers.
Deep experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker and Linux.
Open-source contributions or experience working directly with customers.
Coder’s agentic architecture is provider-agnostic. The foundation is already built; this role helps decide how it evolves, where we invest, and how we keep it reliable as the space moves quickly.
Ashby and Brainerr help us review inbound applications by surfacing candidates who best match the role requirements we've defined. This tool does not make hiring decisions; it helps our team prioritize which applications to review first.
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