Staff Software Engineer, AI Platform (US - Remote or Calgary)

📋 Description

• Core runtime surfaces of syndi-api: the agent loop, tool execution and registry, memory, context
• The eval system — offline gates and online detector/judge evals written onto production traces —
• Production operation: observability (Datadog LLM Obs), incident response, the reliability of an
• The platform's contribution seams: reviewing product teams' tool wrappers and evals, evolving the
• Clarifying, designing, and implementing compliance and legal requirements for Syndi.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years building production backend systems; deep comfort with Python, relational stores, and
• You've built LLM-powered systems in production — an agent loop, tool-calling integration, RAG, or
• You design for operability: legal compliance, tracing, evals, and kill switches are part of the
• You can own a technical domain with light supervision: propose direction in writing with clear API
• Strong written communication — our operating model runs on design docs and PR review across team
• Nice to have: experience being the platform side of a platform/product relationship; SSE/streaming

🎁 Benefits

• Competitive Compensation. For this role our salary is targeted at $205-225k USD or $180-200k CAD
• Syndio Equity. So you can share in Syndio's success
• Flexible Vacation Policy. We encourage our team to recharge when they need to (up to 20 days PTO in
• Medical, Dental, Vision. Syndio pays 90% of employee premiums, and 50% for dependents.
• Life Insurance & Disability. Syndio covers the full premium.
• Remote-first in US + Alberta; in Calgary, non-mandatory office available #LI-Remote