Staff Software Engineer – Startup Position Available In New York, New York

Staff Software Engineer – Startup
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Salary:

$160,000 – $225,000 per year
A bit about us:
Venture backed startup is building an agentic AI platform to transform how engineering teams handle incidents. With deep technical roots from companies like Google and Instacart, the founding team is focused on building a product that turns reactive on-call operations into proactive, autonomous workflows.
Why join us? Excellent Benefits Base Salary + Founding Level Equity Growth Opportunity Great Culture Hybrid preferred. Open to remote for NYC local candidates Work with top-tier engineers, advisors, and AI-native operators PTO, 401K, and much more!
Job Details
In this role you will work alongside the CTO, owning architecture, shipping core features, and contributing across the stack-from infrastructure to AI. This is a high-impact founding role for someone who thrives in ambiguity, thinks broadly, executes deeply, and knows when to build fast versus when to build for scale.

Responsibilities:

Lead end-to-end development across backend, infrastructure, devops, and AI Partner directly with the CTO and co-founders to drive architecture and ship features Translate feedback from enterprise users into actionable product improvements Collaborate with a distributed engineering team to ensure alignment and velocity Shape product direction through direct involvement in customer and investor meetings Design scalable systems using Node/TypeScript (open to Python/Kotlin), Heroku ? AWS with Terraform/IaC Build and experiment with LLM workflows, including prompting, embeddings, and agent orchestration Help define long-term engineering culture, tooling, and technical direction
Requirements BS in CS 5-15+ years of professional engineering experience Startup experience, ideally as a founding engineer or early technical hire Full-stack engineering skills with experience building and scaling production systems Comfortable working across ambiguous, zero-to-one environments Hands-on familiarity with LLMs, agentic tools, and AI-first product development Experience with scalable backend (Node/TypeScript; pent to Python/Kotlin) Terraform infrastructure experience + Cloud (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Heroku, or other)
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