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Staff Software Engineer - Code Authoring

Kitchener-Waterloo, ON💼 Full-time💰 $190,500–$190,500🗓 2026-09-12 → 2026-09-25

Core

Architect and own the production infrastructure for AI code authoring tools, including coding agents, remote development environments, and CI/CD validation systems.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer (Backend Infrastructure & AI Tooling)

Builds

AI coding harnesses, remote development environments, agent sandboxes, and pre-push validation pipelines.

Domain

Developer tooling, AI/LLM infrastructure, Cloud-native backend systems

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Distributed backend architecture, Developer tooling ownership, LLM and coding agent integration, Production SLA management, Cost optimization, Technical mentorship

Preferred skills

Kotlin, Python, Multi-cloud experience

Technologies

Kotlin, Java, Python, AWS, OCI, React, TypeScript, MySQL, CockroachDB, Linear, GitHub, Claude, Cursor

Responsibilities

Design the architecture for systems running coding agents and remote environments; Own the end-to-end developer workflow from ticket to merge; Run production infrastructure with monitoring and uptime accountability; Optimize costs for agent runs and development environments; Set quality standards for code written by humans and agents; Mentor engineers across the organization.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic scope

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