Staff Software Engineer (Platform Architecture & Execution Model)

Co-founded in 2023 by Joe Laws and Grant Verstandig Trase Systems is AI Uncomplicated. Trase empowers enterprise leaders to harness the full potential of AI without the associated complexity and risks. We are an end-to-end solution for deploying managing and optimizing AI in the enterprise. Our platform specializes in bridging the last mile of AI adoption unlocking AIs full potential while driving efficiency and significant cost savings. Trase is at the forefront of AI Agent innovation topping the Hugging Face GAIA Leaderboard for Generalized AI Assistants ahead of industry giants such as Google Meta Microsoft and OpenAI. We are leveraging our cutting-edge technologies to develop mission-critical agentic applications in complex industries such as Healthcare Oil & Gas and National Security.

As Staff Software Engineer youll own the core execution model and platform architecture of Trase OS - the shared platform (agentic operating system) that powers all Trase deployments in regulated environments. Youll define the abstractions and APIs that connect workflows agents tools and product surfaces and ensure the correctness scalability and extensibility of the system.

This is a company-critical role: you are responsible for how the system behaves under real-world conditions including failure scale and security constraints. Your work sets the technical direction for the platform and acts as a force multiplier across all engineering teams.

Clean abstractions and correctness-under-failure are critical because we operate long-lived agents in healthcare/defense environments where auditability and reliability are non-negotiable.

Trase OS is an orchestration-heavy system coordinating long-lived workflows agents and tools across multiple services and environments.

As the platform evolves the primary risks shift from implementation to system design quality:

• Poor abstractions create tight coupling across services
• Workflow execution becomes difficult to reason about under failure
• Platform capabilities fragment instead of becoming reusable primitives
• Scaling introduces complexity instead of leverage

This role exists to:

• Define clean durable abstractions for the platform execution model
• Ensure correctness and determinism in workflow execution
• Translate evolving product requirements into coherent platform architecture
• Enable teams to build on Trase OS without introducing systemic complexity

• You are designing systems where failure is the norm not the exception and correctness must be preserved across retries restarts and partial execution
• You must balance clean abstractions with real-world constraints (performance security multi-tenant environments)
• Decisions made here become foundational primitives used across all products and teams
• The system must remain understandable and auditable even as complexity and scale increase

• Develop the core execution model (state machine lifecycle resource model failure semantics)
• Design platform APIs/SDKs connecting workflows agents tools and product surfaces; drive versioning & compatibility
• Guarantee correctness via idempotency deterministic replays compensating actions and data integrity
• Engineer reliability at scale: concurrency controls rate limits backpressure sharding/partitioning and workload isolation
• Build security & governance into the core: RBAC/ABAC policy enforcement fine-grained audit & lineage
• Deliver observability: distributed tracing structured logs metrics and evaluation hooks; build an explainable trail of agent actions
• Own quality: design reviews test strategy (unit property chaos) performance baselines SLOs incident response and postmortems
• Mentor & unblock senior engineers; partner with Product Security and Customer teams to translate requirements into durable primitives
• Make pragmatic choices on storage queueing and compute; create paved roads that accelerate all other teams
• Define system boundaries and reduce cross-service coupling through clear architectural patterns
• Drive platform-wide standards for correctness reliability and API design across teams
• Balance short-term delivery with long-term architectural integrity ensuring the platform evolves without accumulating systemic risk

• 10 years of experience building distributed/platform systems including significant experience defining architecture across teams or domains
• Experience building mission-critical runtimes or workflow/orchestration systems
• Deep expertise with durable execution (e.g. state machines event sourcing saga/compensation idempotency exactly/at-least-once semantics)
• Proven track record with security & governance in production systems (auth RBAC audit policy)
• Hands-on with observability (Grafana or equivalent) including trace correlation across async boundaries
• Strong systems design across storage queues schedulers and evented architectures; performance tuning under load
• Excellence in a modern language (e.g. Go Rust Java or TypeScript) and cloud-native stacks (containers CI/CD IaC)
• Comfortable operating in regulated or high-assurance environments; bias toward correctness clarity and documentation
• Proven ability to influence technical direction across an organization and drive adoption of architectural standards
• Ability to incorporate advance LLM capabilities into system design and platform architecture decisions where appropriate

• Prior work on workflow engines (Temporal/Cadence/AWS Step Functions Argo Airflow) or serverless runtimes
• Experience with policy engines (OPA) secrets/KMS or data-handling controls (PII/PHI)
• ML/LLM evaluation frameworks tool/plugin architectures or embedding model governance into execution
• Government or healthcare experience (HIPAA audit readiness) and multi-tenant isolation

Salary Range: $00. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience skills and other factors.

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Our Trase Benefits:

For full-time roles only

• Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement withstrong performanceas the firm grows
• 100% employer paid comprehensive health care including medical dental and vision for you and your family.
• Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees normal pay.
• Unlimited PTO with management approval.
• Opportunities for professional development and continued learning.
• Optional 401K FSA and equity incentives available.
• Mental health benefits are available through Tara Mind.

Were an Equal Opportunity Employer: Youll receive consideration for employment without regard to race sex color religion sexual orientation gender identity national origin protected veteran status or on the basis of disability.

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