Red Cell Partners

Red Cell Partners

Staff Software Engineer (Platform Architecture & Execution Model)

Seattle, WA or McLean, VA or Remote (USA) · Staff+ · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$180k-$245kDetected 2 days ago
TypeScriptJavaGoRustAWSCI/CDGrafanaTemporalAPI DevelopmentMachine LearningAirflowLLMsIncident ResponseComplianceCadenceHIPAA

About the role

  • You'll define the abstractions and APIs that connect workflows, agents, tools, and product surfaces, and ensure the correctness, scalability, and extensibility of the system.
  • This is a company-critical role: you are responsible for how the system behaves under real-world conditions, including failure, scale, and security constraints.
  • Your work sets the technical direction for the platform and acts as a force multiplier across all engineering teams.

Responsibilities

  • Develop the core execution model (state machine, lifecycle, resource model, failure semantics)
  • Design platform APIs/SDKs connecting workflows, agents, tools, and product surfaces; drive versioning & compatibility
  • Build security & governance into the core: RBAC/ABAC, policy enforcement, fine-grained audit & lineage
  • Deliver observability: distributed tracing, structured logs, metrics, and evaluation hooks; build an "explainable trail" of agent actions
  • Own quality: design reviews, test strategy (unit, property, chaos), performance baselines, SLOs, incident response, and postmortems
  • Mentor & unblock senior engineers; partner with Product, Security, and Customer teams to translate requirements into durable primitives
  • Make pragmatic choices on storage, queueing, and compute; create paved roads that accelerate all other teams
  • Drive platform-wide standards for correctness, reliability, and API design across teams
  • distributed tracing, structured logs, metrics, and evaluation hooks; build an "explainable trail" of agent actions
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Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience building distributed/platform systems, including significant experience defining architecture across teams or domains
  • Deep expertise with durable execution (e.g., state machines, event sourcing, saga/compensation, idempotency, exactly/at-least-once semantics)
  • Proven track record with security & governance in production systems (auth, RBAC, audit, policy)

Nice to have

  • Prior work on workflow engines (Temporal/Cadence/AWS Step Functions, Argo, Airflow) or serverless runtimes
  • Experience with policy engines (OPA), secrets/KMS, or data-handling controls (PII/PHI)
  • ML/LLM evaluation frameworks, tool/plugin architectures, or embedding model governance into execution

Skills

  • Trase OS is an orchestration-heavy system coordinating long-lived workflows, agents, and tools across multiple services and environments.

Compensation

  • This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience, skills, and other factors.
  • $180,000-245,000.
  • Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay.

Benefits

  • 100% employer paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.
  • Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay.
  • Unlimited PTO, with management approval.
  • Opportunities for professional development and continued learning.
  • Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available.
  • Mental health benefits are available through Tara Mind.
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Company info

  • Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in rapidly scalable technology-led companies that are bringing revolutionary advancements to market in three distinct practice areas: healthcare, cyber, and national security. United by a shared sense of duty and deep belief in the power of innovation, Red Cell is developing powerful tools and solutions to address our Nation's most pressing problems.
  • About Trase
  • Co-founded in 2023 by Joe Laws and Grant Verstandig, Trase Systems is AI, Uncomplicated. Trase empowers enterprise leaders to harness the full potential of AI without the associated complexity and risks. We are an end-to-end solution for deploying, managing, and optimizing AI in the enterprise. Our platform specializes in bridging the "last mile" of AI adoption, unlocking AI's full potential while driving efficiency and significant cost savings. Trase is at the forefront of AI Agent innovation, topping the Hugging Face GAIA Leaderboard for Generalized AI Assistants, ahead of industry giants such as Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI. We are leveraging our cutting-edge technologies to develop mission-critical agentic applications in complex industries such as Healthcare, Oil & Gas, and National Security.
  • Poor abstractions create tight coupling across services
  • Workflow execution becomes difficult to reason about under failure
  • Platform capabilities fragment instead of becoming reusable primitives
  • Scaling introduces complexity instead of leverage
  • Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in rapidly scalable technology-led companies that are bringing revolutionary advancements to market in three distinct practice areas: healthcare, cyber, and national security.
  • United by a shared sense of duty and deep belief in the power of innovation, Red Cell is developing powerful tools and solutions to address our Nation's most pressing problems.
  • Co-founded in 2023 by Joe Laws and Grant Verstandig, Trase Systems is AI, Uncomplicated.
  • Trase empowers enterprise leaders to harness the full potential of AI without the associated complexity and risks.
  • We are an end-to-end solution for deploying, managing, and optimizing AI in the enterprise.
  • Our platform specializes in bridging the "last mile" of AI adoption, unlocking AI's full potential while driving efficiency and significant cost savings.
  • Trase is at the forefront of AI Agent innovation, topping the Hugging Face GAIA Leaderboard for Generalized AI Assistants, ahead of industry giants such as Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI.

Equal opportunity

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