Sonatype

Staff Software Engineer - Agentic First

US - Remote · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 85 days ago

JavaDistributed SystemsAWSGCPAzureLangGraphAI OrchestrationCybersecuritySupply ChainResearchLeadership

About the role

You'll set technical direction for a major product area, orchestrate fleets of agents across parallel workstreams as your primary mode of work, and define the agentic engineering practices that other teams will learn from.
Work on the hardest problems at the intersection of AI, distributed systems, and software supply chain security - a space where the industry playbook is still being written.
Shape the technical roadmap for Nexus, set the engineering hiring bar, and mentor Senior engineers who will carry the craft forward.

Architect & Lead With Agents: Drive the technical design of major agentic-first subsystems - service architecture, data models, and agent/tool integrations - by running long-running, multi-agent workflows across decomposition, orchestration, implementation, testing, and review.
Own a Product Area: Take major initiatives from ambiguous problem statements through technical design, multi-team execution, rollout, and long-term operability.
Architecture, Security & Reliability: Own non-functional requirements for your area - performance, reliability, and security - with particular attention to software supply chain threats (malicious packages, dependency confusion, provenance, SBOM accuracy).
Cross-functional Leadership: Partner with Product, Security Research, UX, and Support leaders to translate ambiguous customer needs into concrete, shippable technical plans
conduct deep design reviews
Long-running Agentic Developer: Multi-step, long-running agent workflows are your default way of building software - well beyond Copilot-style autocomplete.
You routinely orchestrate fleets of agents in parallel across planning, coding, testing, and review, and your own time is spent on direction, verification, and taste rather than generation.

Staff-level Engineering Skills: 7+ years of professional software development, with a track record of leading multi-quarter technical initiatives that span multiple teams or services.
Deep Technical Foundation: Strong experience with Java, Cloud (AWS / Azure / GCP), and large-scale distributed systems - including performance tuning, data-intensive services, and production operability at scale.

2025 Visionary in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Application Security Testing!
2025 AI Compliance Solution of the Year - AI Breakthrough Awards
2025 DEVIES Award to our SBOM Manager for a new product for its innovation and impact in developer technology
2024 Industry Leader in Forrester-Wave for Software Composition Analysis (2024 Q4 report)
Constellation AST Shortlist: Sonatype has been listed on the Constellation ShortList™ for Application Security Testing for 2024
Data Breakthrough Awards: Sonatype was announced as a 2024 winner in the "Open Source Data Solution of the Year."
SD Times: Best in Show Security
Fast Company Best Workplaces for Innovators 2024
The Herd Top 100 Private Software Companies 2024.
Diversity & Inclusion Working Groups
Parental Leave Policy
Paid Volunteer Time Off (VTO)

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