Software Engineer
US$180,000 – US$240,000 / yr base salary
Posted 7 Oct 2026
Advertised as “Senior/Staff Software Engineer (Platform and Execution Model)”
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- Expected experience
- 8+ yrs
- Management level
- People management
- Employment
- Remote
| Base salary | US$180,000 – US$240,000 / yr |
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About Us
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.
About The Role
As a Senior or Staff Software Engineer, you'll build and own critical parts of Trase OS, the shared platform that powers Trase deployments in regulated environments. You'll work on the distributed systems and platform primitives connecting workflows, agents, tools, and product surfaces, with a particular focus on reliability, scalability, and correctness.
You'll take on technically ambiguous problems, design solutions, and drive them through production. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who is comfortable going deep on distributed systems while helping other engineers make sound architectural decisions.
Clean abstractions and correctness-under-failure are critical because we operate long-lived agents in healthcare/defense environments where auditability and reliability are non-negotiable.
The level will reflect your experience and demonstrated scope. Staff-level candidates will be expected to lead architecture across teams, establish engineering standards, and mentor other engineers.
Why This Role is Needed
Trase OS is an orchestration-heavy system coordinating long-lived workflows, agents, and tools across multiple services and environments.
As the platform evolves, the primary risks shift from implementation to system design quality:
- 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
This role exists to:
- Design and implement clean, durable abstractions for the platform execution model