Staff Software Engineer — AI Enablement Group

The role

You will build and evolve a shared AI platform including backend services, infrastructure, and tooling. You will partner with R&D teams to identify AI opportunities and help hundreds of developers build with AI.

What you will do

• Partner with R&D teams to identify high-impact AI opportunities in workflows, tooling, and product engineering.
• Build and evolve the AI platform from user interfaces to cloud infrastructure and production operations.
• Help build the AI software factory by orchestrating AI agents, tools, and workflows.
• Drive AI onboarding and enablement through guidelines, patterns, and best practices.
• Educate teams on AI capabilities, limitations, and responsible use.
• Evaluate and pilot new AI technologies, models, and tools.
• Take solutions from idea to prototype to production while owning quality and reliability.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering, including writing, maintaining, and delivering production-quality code.
• Proven hands-on experience building, maintaining, and operating production systems on AWS.
• Strong GenAI development experience: LLMs, prompt and context engineering, and agent-based systems.
• Experience with agentic frameworks and platforms (e.g. AWS Bedrock AgentCore, LangChain/LangGraph, or similar).
• Proven experience designing and building agentic AI workflows and LLM-powered applications, and bringing them to production.
• Solid grounding in APIs, integrations, databases, cloud environments, monitoring, logging, security, and deployment practices.
• Strong builder mindset: proactive, independent, hands-on, and impact-driven.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Genuine passion for AI.

Nice to have

• Experience building developer-facing tooling or platforms adopted across an engineering org.
• Experience with enterprise AI governance, evaluation frameworks, security, compliance, and privacy.
• Familiarity with the networking/security/SASE domain.
• Open-source contributions, side projects, or a track record of experimenting with the latest AI tooling

About the company

Cato Networks is the converged network and security cloud for the AI era. It is the first company to converge enterprise networking and security into one centralized and global service delivered by cloud.