Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Ads
Remote • Foster City, CA • FullTime
Posted 3h ago
Job Location
Foster City, CA
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
LLM Engineer
About the job
Replit is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for its Money team to help shape Agentic Ads, an emerging area focused on using AI to make customer acquisition more accessible to businesses built on Replit. This role involves developing intelligent, advertiser-facing software that tackles problems at the intersection of AI, business growth, measurement, and trustworthy automation. You will define a new product area, working closely with product, design, and engineering to discover customer needs and deliver practical solutions. This is a hands-on Staff role where you will own architecture, lead delivery across teams, mentor engineers, and translate an ambitious vision into incremental customer value.
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction for Agentic Ads, balancing rapid learning with long-term reliability.
- Build agent-powered experiences to help businesses make informed growth decisions.
- Design extensible integrations with external services using well-defined APIs.
- Partner with product and data teams to establish reliable measurement and connect product activity to business outcomes.
- Develop intelligent automation that learns from performance signals to help users improve outcomes.
- Implement financial controls as a product requirement, including authorization, approvals, budget limits, and reporting.
- Ensure cross-platform workflows are reliable with durable state, idempotency, and safe retries.
- Establish agent evaluations and production monitoring for plan quality, tool selection, and spend safety.
- Lead ambiguous initiatives across multiple functions, staying hands-on with implementation and mentoring engineers.
Requirements
- Track record of Staff-level technical leadership on complex customer-facing products or platforms.
- Strong hands-on software engineering and system design skills across APIs, data modeling, distributed systems, and asynchronous workflows.
- Experience building and operating third-party integrations that handle errors and changing external states.
- Practical experience shipping LLM-powered products or agentic workflows, including tool use, orchestration, and safeguards.
- Strong data and measurement judgment, including experience with instrumentation and experiments.
- Sound judgment around systems that act on a user's behalf, including authentication, authorization, and sensitive data.
- Demonstrated ability to align cross-functional teams and mentor engineers.
- Product-minded approach to simplifying complex workflows for non-experts.