Staff Agentic Engineer

The role

You will own the technical direction of a product area by defining how multiple teams specify, delegate, and verify agentic work. You will build the scaffolding for agentic execution and set security, verification, and release standards.

What you will do

• Own the technical direction of a product area
• Define the standard for specification quality across teams
• Establish the framework for agentic execution versus direct implementation
• Coordinate human and agentic contributors across multiple teams
• Set the verification practice for agent-produced work
• Set the security architecture for agentic work
• Establish readiness criteria for delegating agentic work
• Build scaffolding including prompts, agent instructions, and test harnesses
• Resolve high-risk technical decisions
• Partner with product leadership to shape the roadmap

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• Record of building and shipping customer-facing software in production
• Ownership of technical direction across a product area
• Track record of setting agent patterns and AI-powered solutions that multiple teams reuse
• Depth in designing systems, data models, and architecture
• Ability to define specification standards across teams
• Command of context engineering
• Ability to design agent workflows for parallel execution
• Ability to read unfamiliar code and run root-cause analysis
• Track record of setting security and privacy review bars
• Fluency setting test design and evaluation standards
• Judgment coordinating version control at multi-team scale

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance
• 4 weeks of vacation
• 12 company holidays
• Parental leave
• Volunteer time off
• 401k plans with up to 6% company match
• $2000 Paid-Paid Vacation bonus
• EAP through Headspace

Before you apply

• Employment is contingent on passing both a background and credit check

About the company

BambooHR is building a people intelligence platform that transforms HR. They are a market leader driving innovation through thoughtful, sustainable growth.