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Required Senior/Principal Backend Engineer - Application (Cortex Platform)
Job Summary
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Cortex Platform Application team, you will be a hands-on technical leader responsible for designing, building, and operating critical backend platform services used across Cortex. This role is for an engineer who can combine deep platform/backend expertise with strong ownership, practical execution, and cross-team influence. You will help build scalable and reliable services, guide technical decisions, improve engineering methods, mentor engineers, and raise the quality of how the team designs, ships, documents, tests, and operates its systems. The team owns a broad set of platform capabilities, including areas such as application configuration, dashboards and reporting infrastructure, metrics, multi-tenant and MSSP infrastructure, log forwarding, notifications, auditing, access and permission engines, filtering and querying infrastructure, and other shared application platform domains. We are looking for someone who is not only strong technically, but also enjoys joining a high-performing team, taking ownership from within, and helping turn strong execution into repeatable engineering practice. A successful candidate will quickly become a trusted part of the team by shipping meaningful work, learning the team's domains, and helping others move faster. Over time, this person will help the team increase delivery capacity while also improving how work is designed, documented, tested, operated, and shared across the organization. The right person will not act as an external advisor or abstract architect. They will join the team's day-to-day work, earn trust through execution, and help create organized technical influence from inside the team.
Key Responsibilities:
Design, build, and operate scalable, reliable, and secure backend services for the Cortex Platform.
Act as a hands-on technical leader, writing and reviewing production code for critical platform services.
Lead technical design for complex backend and platform domains, balancing long-term architecture with practical delivery.
Own and improve core platform capabilities used by internal engineering teams and Cortex customers.
Drive operational excellence, including observability, monitoring, alerting, incident response, reliability, and participation in on-call.
Improve engineering methods around documentation, testing, design reviews, ownership models, and production readiness.
Mentor senior, mid-level, and junior engineers through design guidance, code reviews, production work, and day-to-day collaboration.
Collaborate closely with product managers, architects, security experts, QA, DevOps, and other engineering teams.
Help internal customers use platform capabilities correctly by creating clarity, alignment, and practical technical guidance.
Identify gaps in systems, processes, and ownership, and lead improvements without adding unnecessary process or friction.
Contribute to a calm, practical, low-ego engineering culture focused on ownership, execution, and continuous improvement.

As a Senior Backend Engineer on our companys AI Framework team, you will build the foundational platform that enables the entire organization to design, evaluate, deploy, and operate AI agents at scale. This is a new, high-impact team responsible for creating the frameworks, tools, and guardrails that power our companys agentic ecosystem.
Youll work deeply in the agentic space, designing systems for orchestration, evaluation, observability, and safety. The platforms you build will be used by multiple teams across our company, making your impact immediate and company-wide.
Youll Own:
Agentic Framework Architecture: Designing and building our internal agentic framework, leveraging and integrating industry-standard tools such as LangChain, LangSmith, ADK, and similar ecosystems.
Evaluation and Quality Systems: Building evaluation frameworks and workflows for AI agents, including offline and online evaluations, quality metrics, regression detection, and experimentation infrastructure.
Observability, Monitoring, and Guardrails: Providing the organization with robust observability capabilities for AI agents, including tracing, logging, monitoring, cost tracking, and safety guardrails to ensure reliable and responsible usage.
Developer Enablement Platforms: Creating APIs, SDKs, and abstractions that enable product teams to easily build, test, and operate agents while adhering to platform standards.
Cross-Language Integrations: Designing integrations and tooling across Python and Java to enable seamless adoption of the AI framework within our broader backend ecosystem.
Agent Runtime and Execution Engine: Building the runtime responsible for orchestrating agent execution, managing tool calls, maintaining state and memory, and ensuring reliable execution across distributed systems.
Youll Solve:
Agent Lifecycle and Orchestration Complexity: Managing agent execution, tool usage, memory, workflows, and failure modes in production-grade systems.
AI System Reliability at Scale: Ensuring agents remain observable, debuggable, and safe as usage scales across teams and products.
Evaluation and Drift Challenges: Detecting quality regressions, model behavior changes, and unintended agent behaviors through robust evaluation and monitoring systems.
Platform Adoption Friction: Balancing flexibility with guardrails so teams can innovate quickly without compromising reliability, security, or cost controls.
Youll Impact:
Company-Wide AI Enablement: Empowering every engineering team to build agent-based solutions faster, with higher quality and confidence.
Foundational AI Infrastructure: Establishing the core frameworks, evaluations, and observability standards that all AI agents at our company will rely on.
AI Safety and Quality Bar: Raising the bar for how AI systems are evaluated, monitored, and governed across the compan