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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 AI's full potential while driving efficiency and significant cost savings.Trase is at the forefront of AI Agentinnovation, 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. \nAbout The Role\nAs a Senior or Staff Software Engineer, you'll build and own critical parts of Trase OS, the shared platform that powers Trase deployments in regulated environments. You'll work on the distributed systems and platform primitives connecting workflows, agents, tools, and product surfaces, with a particular focus on reliability, scalability, and correctness.\nYou'll take on technically ambiguous problems, design solutions, and drive them through production. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who is comfortable going deep on distributed systems while helping other engineers make sound architectural decisions.\nClean abstractions and correctness-under-failure are critical because we operate long-lived agents in healthcare/defense environments where auditability and reliability are non-negotiable.\nThe level will reflect your experience and demonstrated scope. Staff-level candidates will be expected to lead architecture across teams, establish engineering standards, and mentor other engineers. \nWhy This Role is Needed\nTrase OS is an orchestration-heavy system coordinating long-lived workflows, agents, and tools across multiple services and environments.\nAs the platform evolves, the primary risks shift from implementation to system design quality:\nPoor abstractions create tight coupling across services\nWorkflow execution becomes difficult to reason about under failure\nPlatform capabilities fragment instead of becoming reusable primitives\nScaling introduces complexity instead of leverage\nThis role exists to:\nDesign and implement clean, durable abstractions for the platform execution model\nEnsure correctness and determinism in workflow execution\nTranslate evolving product requirements into coherent platform architecture\nEnable teams to build on Trase OS without introducing systemic complexity\nWhat Makes This Role Challenging\nYou are designing systems where failure is the norm, not the exception, and correctness must be preserved across retries, restarts, and partial execution\nYou must balance clean abstractions with real-world constraints (performance, security, multi-tenant environments)\nDecisions made here become foundational primitives used across all products and teams\nThe system must remain understandable and auditable, even as complexity and scale increase\nResponsibilities\nDesign, build, and own critical components of the core execution model (state machine, lifecycle, resource model, failure semantics)\nBuild reliable distributed systems that behave predictably across retries, restarts, partial failures, and concurrent execution.\nDevelop platform APIs/SDKs connecting workflows, agents, tools, and product surfaces; drive versioning & compatibility\nGuarantee correctness via idempotency, deterministic replays, compensating actions, and data integrity\nEngineer reliability at scale: concurrency controls, rate limits, backpressure, sharding/partitioning, and workload isolation\nBuild security & governance into the core: RBAC/ABAC, policy enforcement, fine-grained audit & lineage\nDeliver observability: distributed tracing, structured logs, metrics, and evaluation hooks; build an “explainable trail” of agent actions\nOwn quality: design reviews, test strategy (unit, property, chaos), performance baselines, SLOs, incident response, and postmortems\nMentor engineers, contribute to design reviews, and help establish strong engineering patterns across the platform.\nRequirements\n8+ years of experience building distributed/platform systems, including significant experience defining architecture across teams or domains \n4+ years owning mission-critical runtimes or workflow/orchestration systems\nDeep expertise with durable execution (e.g., state machines, event sourcing, saga/compensation, idempotency, exactly/at-least-once semantics)\nProven track record with security & governance in production systems (auth, RBAC, audit, policy)\nHands-on with observability (Grafana or equivalent), including trace correlation across async boundaries\nStrong systems design across storage, queues, schedulers, and evented architectures; performance tuning under load\nExcellence in a modern language (e.g., Go, Rust, Java, or TypeScript) and cloud-native stacks (containers, CI/CD, IaC)\nComfortable operating in regulated or high-assurance environments; bias toward correctness, clarity, and documentation\nStrong technical judgment and the ability to influence design decisions within a team and across closely related engineering areas.\nAbility to incorporate advance LLM capabilities into system design and platform architecture decisions where appropriate\nNice to Have\nPrior work on workflow engines (Temporal/Cadence/AWS Step Functions, Argo, Airflow) or serverless runtimes\nExperience with policy engines (OPA), secrets/KMS, or data-handling controls (PII/PHI)\nML/LLM evaluation frameworks, tool/plugin architectures, or embedding model governance into execution\nGovernment or healthcare experience (HIPAA, audit readiness) and multi-tenant isolation\nIf you want to be on the cutting edge of technology, building AI solutions for the future, and are up for a challenge, let’s talk!\nSalary Range: $180,000-240,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience, skills, and other factors.\nSome travel to customers may be required.\nOur Trase Benefits:\nFor full-time roles only \nCareer track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement with strong performance as the firm grows \n100% employer paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.\nPaid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay.\nUnlimited PTO, with management approval.\nOpportunities for professional development and continued learning.\nOptional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available.\nMental health benefits are available through Tara Mind. \nWe’re an Equal Opportunity Employer: You’ll 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.\nApplicant Data Disclosure \nBy submitting an application, you acknowledge that Red Cell Partners, LLC (\"Red Cell\") uses third-party service providers to facilitate its recruitment and hiring processes. 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