Senior Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Platform
Lead the architecture of an agentic platform and build shared capabilities for context, orchestration, tool execution, trust controls, observability, and evaluation. Guide cross-team technical decisions, optimize LLM spending, and create reliable automated evaluation pipelines for agent accuracy and safety.
Responsibilities
- Define the architecture for Tide’s agentic platform
- Design shared services such as context APIs, tool layers, policy controls, and auditability
- Partner with product, data, security, and engineering teams to create reusable platform capabilities
- Set standards for reliability, safety, scalability, and developer experience
- Provide technical leadership across teams and unblock critical decisions
- Implement cost-management and routing logic to optimize LLM spending
- Design and build automated evaluation pipelines for agent reasoning accuracy and safety
Requirements
- Deep experience building platform or infrastructure systems at scale
- Strong judgment across APIs, distributed systems, data, and cloud-native architecture
- Track record of leading complex cross-team technical problems
- Experience integrating third-party platforms while retaining control of core architecture
- Strong understanding of reliability, security, and observability
- Experience with AI platform components is valuable but not essential
- Experience in highly regulated industries is highly desirable
Benefits
- Competitive salary and share options
- Generous annual leave on top of bank holidays
- Paid maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
- Extended unpaid and paid leave options
- Private family health insurance with additional OPD coverage and top-up options
- Life and accident insurance
- Therapy sessions, courses, meditations, and workshops
- Paid volunteering and personal growth days
- Annual learning and development budget
- Work from abroad for up to 90 days annually
- Home office setup contribution
- Laptop replacement program
- Office snacks, coffee, tea, and lunch