Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Systems - Moveworks

📋 Description

• Agent orchestration engine — A state machine that manages long-running agent sessions, coordinating
• Distributed session management — Lease-based ownership using DynamoDB conditional writes, heartbeat
• Event-driven message pipeline — SQS FIFO queues for ordered delivery, Kafka consumers for event
• Structured concurrency — Python asyncio TaskGroups running multiple concurrent tasks per session
• Observability infrastructure — OpenTelemetry instrumentation, distributed trace context propagation
• Caching and state layers — Redis, DynamoDB KV stores with per-org/per-bot scoping, batch read

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years building production backend/infrastructure systems
• Strong in Python or Go (ideally both)
• Experience designing and operating systems that handle real traffic at scale
• Comfort with ambiguity — these are novel problems without textbook solutions
• Deep experience in at least 3 areas: distributed systems, concurrent/async programming

🎁 Benefits

• Flexible work personas (flexible, remote, or required in office) with trust and flexibility
• Equal opportunity employer
• Accommodations for reasonable accommodations during application process