Staff Platform Engineer, Agentic EngineeringActive€128K–€202K

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The opportunity

The AI orchestration of your wildest imagination.

What you'll do

  • Cultivated a community of more than 650,000 active developers and builders

  • Earned 190K+ GitHub stars, making us one of the world’s Top 40 most popular projects

  • Backed by top investors, from Sequoia’s first German seed to our SAP's recent: strategic investment - bringing us to a $5.2bn valuation

  • Identify where agentic development can make the greatest difference, using: developer feedback, existing experiments and engineering performance data.

  • Set the strategy and priorities across agent execution, repository readiness,: CI, security and developer workflows.

  • Make build, buy or pass decisions on tools and vendors, and own the cost and: value trade-offs, including AI spend.

What they're looking for

  • Make decisions where requirements are incomplete and the trade-offs between: autonomy, reliability, security and review effort are still emerging.
  • Build alignment through technical proposals, clear decisions and working: software, and report progress and impact to engineering leadership.
  • Design and build isolated execution environments where agents can work with: the right access to code, tools and context, without exposing secrets or sensitive systems.
  • Own the safety model: which task categories agents may attempt, what they must never touch, and where human review is required, partnering with Security on sensitive areas like auth, billing, permissions and data handling.