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With thousands of users and rapidly growing enterprise adoption, our mission is to democratize access to LLMs and bring AI into the hands of every business operator, not just developers. An Asana Company, we're building the foundational platform for the AI-driven future of work\nThe role\nEnterprises run real work on AI agents, and at StackAI that work runs on a single engine. Some agents finish in a second. Others run for days, fan out into dozens of sub-agents, pause, resume, and recover from failures without losing a step. We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Engine & Distributed Systems to own that engine: the durable runtime at the core of the platform that has to be correct every time, at any scale.\nThis is deep systems work at the heart of the product. When the engine is solid, agents simply run - and getting it there is one of the more interesting distributed-systems problems in AI today. 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