Kraken Tech - Senior Software Engineer - AI Foundations

• Strong senior-level software engineering: You have owned complex services end to end, from design through testing, deployment and operation. • Strong senior-level software engineering: • Deep engineering fundamentals: Good judgement on system design, concurrency, security, testing and architecture trade-offs. Strong production Python. • Deep engineering fundamentals: • Hands-on LLM and agent experience: You have built real things with LLMs, you know where they fail, and you use AI coding tools every day. • Cloud experience: You're comfortable running services in AWS and owning their reliability and scalability. • Product sense: You care whether people actually use what you build. • Product sense: • Clear communication: You can explain trade-offs to technical and non-technical people and challenge ideas constructively. • Clear communication: • Learning agility: You pick up new tools and domains quickly in a field that changes every month. • Learning agility: • 🚀 What success looks like • Adoption: You ship platform features that teams across Kraken adopt and rely on. • Adoption: • Solid systems: The services you own are observable, secure, scalable and cost-aware. • Solid systems: • Trust at scale: Teams can build and trust agents without rebuilding the basics. • Trust at scale: • Team impact: You make your squad, and the teams around it, better. • Team impact: • AI engineering: Pydantic AI, LiteLLM, LangChain, MCP servers • AI engineering: • Knowledge and retrieval: RAG, search, embeddings, knowledge graphs • Knowledge and retrieval: • Evals and safety: Inspect AI, Ragas, OpenAI Evals, NeMo Guardrails, red teaming • Evals and safety: • Platform: Kubernetes, sandboxed or cloud dev environments, AWS Bedrock • Platform: • Backend: Django • Backend: • Observability: Datadog, OpenTelemetry • Observability: • Are you ready for a career with us? We want to ensure you have the right tools and environment to unleash your potential. If you have any accommodation requests, please contact us at [email protected]. We’ll do our best to tailor the experience to your needs so you can feel comfortable, confident and be at your best!