Core Engineering

The role

A Core Engineer will design and operate foundational infrastructure for an autonomous agent platform. You will build systems for agent reliability, orchestration, and low-latency data pipelines.

What you will do

• Build infrastructure for reliable autonomous agent execution
• Design systems for deterministic, auditable agent behavior at enterprise SLAs
• Develop low-latency retrieval and context systems powering AI workflows
• Build and scale graph-based infrastructure and semantic retrieval systems
• Improve observability, debugging, and reliability across distributed agent systems
• Work on real-time data ingestion and streaming architectures
• Collaborate closely with platform, AI, and product engineering teams
• Help shape the long-term architecture behind Rox’s agent runtime

Required qualifications

• Strong background in distributed systems or platform engineering
• Experience building and operating high-scale backend infrastructure
• Strong systems fundamentals across networking, concurrency, storage, and reliability
• Experience with streaming systems, distributed databases, or real-time infrastructure
• Ability to independently design and ship complex technical systems
• Strong product and engineering judgment

Nice to have

• Apache Flink
• distributed query engines
• real-time OLAP systems
• graph retrieval systems
• semantic search infrastructure
• streaming compute systems
• large-scale platform engineering
• AI infrastructure and orchestration systems
• Open source contributors
• infrastructure specialists

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision, including 100% company-paid plans for you and eligible dependents
• Company-paid life & AD&D, plus short- and long-term disability
• 401(k) with automatic enrollment
• Unlimited PTO, plus paid sick leave, company holidays, and bereavement
• Up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave at 100% pay (birth, adoption, or foster)
• Wellness stipend: $375/quarter
• Learning stipend: up to $2,000/year
• Internet & cell phone stipend: $25/month
• Mental health support, virtual care, and care navigation
• Fertility & family-building support, plus backup care membership
• Pre-tax commuter benefits (transit & parking)
• SF HQ: daily catered breakfast & lunch, meal allowances, and rideshare support when commuting to the office

About the company

Rox builds a revenue operating system using autonomous revenue agents to manage the end-to-end customer lifecycle. The platform powers Global 2000 leaders in banking, hardware, construction, and sovereign AI.