Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Description

The company, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — the company’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is The Role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Integrations Team and help us build how the company shows up inside the AI ecosystem. AI assistants and agentic tools are quickly becoming the place where developers start their work, and this role exists to make the company work in the tools and ecosystems that our users use. We want to be easy to find, easy to connect to, and easy to use.

The Integrations team owns the developer-facing surfaces that connect the company to the broader ecosystem: language clients, CLI, MCP server, third-party integrations, and the skills that make the company accessible wherever developers work. You'll build and maintain these projects, engage directly with the developer community, and contribute across team and cross-functional initiatives.

This is fast-moving territory. We want someone who enjoys an ambiguous, quick-shifting space, who forms opinions about what should be built and not only how, and who is comfortable working closely with our product teams and external partners.

Prior experience with the the company product suite is not essential, but is beneficial.

What You Will Be Doing

You'll build and evolve the the company MCP server and the infrastructure behind it, working primarily in Go.

You'll build the platform for universal agent skills: the portable format, the authoring and publishing tooling, and the linting that lets any team at the company ship a skill that runs across every agent.

You'll design and deliver integrations that make the company available inside third-party AI ecosystems. For that you’ll work closely with our product team and third-party partners to shape and land those integrations.

You'll contribute to our the company CLI to enhance the efficiency of developers and their agents.

You'll be developing, maintaining, and supporting libraries, tools, and integrations related to the the company Stack, working in a mixture of languages including Go and Rust.

You'll bring product thinking to the team, holding and defending opinions on what we should build and why, informed by the ecosystem around us.

What You Bring

8+ years of software engineering experience working on backend systems, services or libraries.

Proficiency with AI/ML frameworks and a working understanding of LLMs, agents, agent skills and protocols such as MCP. Interest in proving correctness through evaluation rather than assuming it.

Significant recent working experience of Go and (ideally) other languages.

Knowledge of client-server networking, HTTP, and RESTful APIs.

Comfort reading and contributing to codebases in languages you don't own, and no fear of picking up an unfamiliar one.

Knowledge of industry best practices in software engineering.

Product thinking: an interest in the wider ecosystem and strong opinions on what is worth building.

A strong focus on usability and developer experience.

Comfort with context-switching and with a space that changes quickly.

A genuine interest in technology and an active interest in exploring multiple programming languages.

Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills, including in front of customers and external partners.

A willingness to work as part of a remote, globally distributed team.

Clear thinking, self-motivation, and the ability to learn and work independently.

Bonus Points

Experience building or operating infrastructure, and an interest in telemetry and observability (nice to have)

A connection to technical communities through open source projects, blogs or talks (nice to have)

Experience working with third-party or partner engineering teams (nice to have)

Prior experience of the company products (nice to have)

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, the company is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary

Health coverage for you and your family in many locations

Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles

Generous number of vacation days each year

Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service

Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love

Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. The company is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

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