Senior Staff Software Engineer - Agent Marketplace
$220,000–$270,000 year
Remote
Job Summary
Architect and own the end-to-end full-stack surfaces of the marketplace loop, delivering high-performance tools, the underlying REST API substrate, and developer-facing onboarding systems. Design the foundational agent-native user experience by creating robust Model Context Protocol (MCP) server capabilities, sandboxed test environments, and elegant CLI/SDK generation workflows. Scale and protect the transaction infrastructure by building high-reliability pipelines for programmatic identity verification, usage attribution, granular metering, and complex multi-party settlement. Lead architectural design reviews to champion a zero-technical-debt culture while mentoring engineers across the organization. Drive cross-functional execution across Kong's engineering ecosystem to integrate marketplace features with gateway runtime and global core teams. Own the technical lifecycle completely by writing crystal-clear engineering documentation and product specifications for every system you architect.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience engineering enterprise-grade production software with a proven capability to design, build, and support complex distributed systems from scratch
- Master-level expertise with a modern backend stack (such as Golang or similar systems languages)
- deep architectural command of API infrastructure, Kubernetes, and cloud-native patterns
- Extensive hands-on experience developing autonomous agent applications, tool-calling systems, prompt loops, or systems designed explicitly for machine consumption
- Deep operational familiarity with multi-tenant architectures, usage-based metering pipelines, billing integration patterns, or secure data exchange layers
- Strong written communication and technical articulation skills
- unwavering comfort operating within remote, globally distributed engineering environments
Desired Qualifications
- West Coast/Bay Area alignment
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