Staff Software Engineer, Reef Intent Engine
San Jose, CA, USA +2 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Location
- San Jose, CA, USA
Kirkland, WA, USA
New York, NY, USA - Experience
- 8 years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Build and operate Reef, a cloud-native platform that turns developer and AI-agent intent into secure, compliant, cost-governed Google Cloud environments.
What you'll do
- Translate developer and agent intent into deterministic, verifiable environments; design fleet-wide drift detection, policy verification, and autonomous security remediation.
- Build policy and budget controls, billing attribution, environment expiration, and automated cloud-waste reclamation.
- Develop evaluation harnesses for agentic infrastructure actions, mentor engineers, and align technical roadmaps.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, focusing on scalability, fault tolerance, and reliability.
- Experience designing software architecture for applications, including AI/ML systems, and experience in cloud computing focused on AI/ML, data analytics, or data engineering.
- Experience maintaining infrastructure for AI/ML computing environments and with cloud-native architecture and development methodologies.
Nice to have
- Experience building AI agent harnesses, MCP servers, LLM evaluation pipelines, or neuro-symbolic systems.
- Experience with cloud security governance, IAM automation, Cloud FinOps, Google Cloud Platform resource management, or cloud-native developer platforms.
Pay
$207000 - $300000 (USD) base salary
Tools
Google Cloud Platform, MCP servers, LLM
AI focus
Build platform capabilities for AI agents, including agentic infrastructure actuation and evaluation, and support AI/ML workloads.
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