Staff Engineer

Zep is a context engineering platform for AI agents. We help developers build personalized, reliable AI applications by assembling the right context from chat history, business data, and user behavior.

We’re hiring a Staff Engineer to own core backend architecture and execution. This role is for someone who can design and ship low-latency systems at scale, operate them in production on AWS, and build agent-facing capabilities that hold up in high-throughput environments.

Responsibilities

• Ship end-to-end product features: backend services, APIs, data flows, and the supporting UI where needed.

• Build and operate agent-facing capabilities: workflows, tooling, evaluation harnesses, and reliability improvements for real agent systems.

• Own and collaborate on system design and implementation for new components: make pragmatic architecture decisions, document them, and iterate.

• Improve production quality: performance, observability, and operational runbooks on AWS.

Requirements

• Strong backend systems background. You’ve designed and shipped production services with high throughput and strict latency targets.

• Go and Python experience in real systems. You can own critical-path code and performance work.

• Agent building experience: you’ve built agentic applications end-to-end and understand reliability, evaluation, and failure modes in production.

• Hands-on AWS experience operating production systems (deployments, monitoring, scaling, cost and reliability tradeoffs).

Nice to have

• TypeScript experience (frontend or SDK work).

Salary: $175,000 - $250,000 per year + Stock Options

Benefits: Health, Dental, Vision Insurance; 401K match; Phone Benefits

We respect your time and keep our interview process tight and focussed.

Screening Call (w/ Daniel, our Founder) → Team Calls (2-3 hours back-to-back, may include a presentation) → Decision Call (Daniel, again)