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Senior​/Founding Full-Stack Engineer, Agent Systems

Job in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, 94199, USA
Listing for: Thomas Talent Network, LLC
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-10-04
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    Software Engineer, Backend Developer, DevOps, AI Engineer (Applied/Software)
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 180000 - 260000 USD Yearly USD 180000.00 260000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Our client is building AI coworkers for IT teams: a security-focused product where an agent registers as a governed identity in a customer's directory, requests scoped access per task, escalates for human approval, and drives systems it was never given an API for.

About the Role:

This is a backend- and systems-heavy founding engineering role where  full-stack  means owning the product and system end-to-end. You'll build the workflow engine for long-running human and agent work (durable state, retries, idempotency, approvals, replay, compensation, auditability), and design identity and authorization for humans, services, and agents (principals, delegation, scoped sessions, tenant isolation, traceable authority).

You’ll build a versioned policy engine for who or what can perform which action on which resource under what context; own secure storage and use of customer production keys, OAuth tokens, and admin credentials (isolation, rotation, episodic injection, revocation, blast-radius containment); own the boundary between probabilistic model behavior and deterministic execution (validation, evals, release gates); build isolated virtual environments and dev boxes for agents (reproducible state, observability, resource controls, safe teardown);

and ship the interfaces and APIs to author, approve, inspect, debug, and operate these systems in production.

What You'll Own:
  • The workflow engine for long-running human + agent work: durable state, retries, idempotency, approvals, replay, compensation, auditability
  • Identity and authorization for humans, services, and agents: principals, delegation, scoped sessions, tenant isolation, traceable authority
  • A versioned policy engine (who/what can do which action on which resource, under what context)
  • Secure storage and use of customer keys, OAuth tokens, and admin credentials: isolation, rotation, episodic injection, revocation, blast-radius containment
  • The probabilistic-to-deterministic execution boundary: validation, evals, release gates
  • Isolated virtual environments and dev boxes for agents: reproducible state, observability, resource controls, safe teardown
  • The interfaces and APIs to author, approve, inspect, debug, and operate these systems in production
Requirements - Must-Have:
  • Has designed and operated complex production systems, and can explain what broke, how they recovered, and what changed
  • Strongest in backend and systems architecture, but can work across frontend, data, infrastructure, and product
  • Depth in one or more of: IAM/authorization, policy systems, workflow orchestration, security, multi-tenant SaaS, agent infrastructure, MDM, ITSM, enterprise integrations, or virtualized execution
  • Thinks in in variants, threat models, failure modes, and user outcomes
  • Works well from ambiguity and moves quickly without trading away correctness, security, or operability
  • Able to work in person in SF, Monday to Friday, at startup intensity
  • Strong candidates may also:
    • Have built permission graphs, non-human identity, secrets platforms, privileged access, or delegated authorization
    • Have built workflow runtimes, reconciliation systems, sandboxes, simulation/evaluation infrastructure, or developer environments
    • Have been an early engineer who owned architecture, production, and customer-facing product
    Job Details:
    • Experience:

      4+ Years
    • Equity: 1% - 2%
    • Visa Sponsorship: H-1B, O-1, OPT
    • Employment Type:

      Full-Time
    • Work Type:
      In-person
    Benefits & Perks:
    • Meals in office
    • Health insurance
    • Unlimited PTO
    Position Requirements
    10+ Years work experience
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