Senior Software Engineer, Stacklok
Platform
$189-231k
+ Equity
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Enterprise MCP platform for secure AI workflows
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Enterprise MCP platform for secure AI workflows
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$189-231k
+ Equity
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To ensure all knowledge workers can simply and safely lean into AI agents to increase their productivity.
Role
Who you are
- We do not expect every candidate to meet every point below. If this role excites you and you bring most of it, we encourage you to apply
- Deep proficiency in Go, with a proven track record building production-grade backend or platform systems
- Knowledge of Kubernetes and container technologies, including operators, isolation, and networking in production environments
- Proven track record designing and shipping complete systems end to end, from architecture through production and iteration
- Demonstrated experience as a tech lead: mentoring engineers, driving code review, and raising the quality of a team's work
- Experience designing for reliability and observability, building systems with monitoring, testing, and evaluation in mind
- Proven track record building or operating platform services such as gateways, registries, runtimes, or deployment tooling. Familiarity with MCP is a plus
- AI-first mindset: integrates AI tools into development and helps improve how the team ships, turning AI-assisted workflows into repeatable velocity gains
- Communication: excellent written and verbal communication, able to explain complex technical ideas clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
- Startup mentality and intrinsic motivation: self-directed and hands-on, thrives in fast-moving, ambiguous environments and drives clarity through action
What the job involves
- Enterprises are moving AI agents from experimentation into production, and they need infrastructure that is secure, auditable, and runs behind their own firewall
- As a Senior Engineer on Stacklok's core platform team, you will own subsystems within Stacklok Enterprise, the production distribution of ToolHive, the open-source platform for running and governing MCP servers
- This is a role with real ownership. You will design and deliver whole subsystems end to end, anchor meaningful projects, and lead them from design through implementation and into production
- These are the systems that let Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies run AI agents securely at scale
- You will make the design tradeoffs that determine how your subsystems evolve, and mentor the engineers building alongside you
- The timing is what makes it compelling. Customers are signing on now, the platform is being hardened for their production environments, and you will solve hard infrastructure problems in an emerging category alongside a team whose founders co-created Kubernetes
- Own the design and implementation of platform subsystems end to end, from technical design through production and ongoing improvement
- Anchor meaningful projects, making the design tradeoffs that balance reliability, scalability, and time to market
- Write production-ready code aligned with the overall system architecture, with observability, testing, and error handling built in
- Produce clear design docs and work breakdowns that the team can plan and build against
- Mentor SWE and SWE II engineers and contribute to a strong code review culture across the team
- Contribute to technical decisions alongside technical leads, product, and engineering leadership on behalf of the team
- Contribute to the open-source ToolHive codebase and collaborate with community contributors on shared work
- What Success Looks Like: First 6-12 Months:
- Designed and shipped a complete subsystem end to end that is now running in production for enterprise customers
- Became the trusted owner and go-to decision maker for one or more platform areas, with the team routing design questions your way
- Took a rough or partial subsystem to production-hardened, measurably improving its reliability or scalability for customer deployments
- Raised the team's bar by mentoring SWE and SWE II engineers and strengthening the code review culture
- Improved how the team ships by tightening development velocity, including where AI-assisted workflows helped and where they created rework
Our take
Developers looking to actively work with open-source software face several barriers to entry in terms of accessing, integrating, and ultimately utilizing open-source technologies. In a bid to lower such barriers, Stacklok harnesses the power of open-source projects - like sigstore - to deliver enterprise-grade solutions to developers.
Software supply chain security is an absolute priority across software ecosystems, thus the necessity for a supply chain ledger with observability and transparency is paramount to building trust within the vast open-source ecosystem.
The experience of Stacklok’s Co-Founders – who have founded projects such as Kubernetes, sigstore, and Heptio (acquired by VMware) – and its impressive backing have the recently launched project well set to see accelerated growth and adoption.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
May 2023
$17.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $17.5m
Company benefits
- Flexible workplace: Do your best work in a setup designed for impact and flexibility. Roles are hybrid or fully remote, depending on team and location.
- Healthcare: Stay healthy and supported with comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans for you and your family.
- Paid time off: Take the time you need to recharge. Our policy includes flexible vacation days and paid holidays to support your well-being and focus.
- Paid parental leave: Recover and bond with your growing family. Paid leave is available with options for how and when you take your time.
- Equity ownership: Share in what you help build, and know that you’re joining a team with a track record of strong outcomes.
- Team offsites: Build deeper relationships across the company. We host in-person offsites in unique destinations to collaborate, align and have fun!
Company HQ
Central Business District, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Craig McLuckie
(Co-Founder & CEO)Founder & former CEO of Heptio. Previously worked as VP of R&D at VMware, Group/Lead Product Manager at Google, Lead Program Manager at Microsoft, and Entrepreneur in Residence at Accel.
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