Principal Engineer – Agentic AI Applications

Serko Ltd.  ยท  via Get Backend Jobs
๐Ÿ’ฐ $168,000 - $240,000/yr ๐ŸŒŽ Remote ๐Ÿ“ Remote, California

Job Description:

  • Define how autonomous AI agents are designed, orchestrated, and deployed at scale
  • Lead the technical vision and architecture for next-generation agentic AI applications
  • Own end-to-end architecture for agentic systems, including multi-agent orchestration, memory management, and reasoning pipelines
  • Implement infrastructure for non-deterministic loops, circuit breakers, latency-aware orchestration, and token/cost observability
  • Define engineering patterns, design standards, and best practices for agentic application development
  • Mentor and grow senior engineers
  • Conduct architecture reviews and drive high-stakes technical decisions
  • Participate in hiring
  • Partner with AI Ops to build, serve, and monitor agentic workloads
  • Collaborate with Product, Research, and Platform teams to deliver reliable, high-availability products

Requirements:

  • 12+ years of software engineering experience
  • At least 4+ years in technical leadership or principal-level roles
  • Deep hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered or agentic systems to production
  • Experience with LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or custom-built runtimes
  • Proven track record architecting distributed, high-availability systems
  • Mastery of Python and modern backend frameworks
  • Deep familiarity with RAG pipelines, vector databases, tool-calling APIs, and multi-step reasoning
  • Ability to distill complex AI concepts into clear technical roadmaps
  • Desire to influence organization-wide engineering culture
  • TypeScript/Node.js is a plus

Benefits:

  • Competitive base pay
  • Medical Benefits
  • Discretionary incentive plan based on individual and company performance
  • Access to a learning & development platform
  • Opportunity to own your career pathways
  • Flexible work policy