US - Remote
Remote
Senior
Full Time
3 days ago
remotestaff levelsoftware engineeringagentic-firstAIdistributed systemssoftware supply chain security
Requirements
- •7+ years of professional software development experience
- •Experience leading multi-quarter technical initiatives spanning multiple teams or services
- •Strong experience with Java
- •Experience with Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- •Experience with large-scale distributed systems including performance tuning, data-intensive services, and production operability at scale
- •Working knowledge of software supply chain security including SBOM formats (CycloneDX, SPDX), SCA, SLSA provenance, Sigstore/cosign signing, vulnerability analysis (OSV, NVD), and common attack patterns against package ecosystems
- •Hands-on experience designing, running, and scaling multi-agent systems including MCP tooling, shared context and memory, agent handoffs, and robust eval harnesses
- •Verification-first mindset with ability to define evals, test harnesses, observability, and review workflows
- •Product engineering mindset with ability to make product decisions independently and drive scope, trade-offs, and sequencing
What You'll Do
- •Lead the design and delivery of enterprise-grade, agentic-first capabilities within Nexus Repository Manager
- •Set technical direction for a major product area
- •Orchestrate fleets of agents across parallel workstreams
- •Define agentic engineering practices for other teams
- •Partner with Principal engineers on technical decisions
- •Mentor Senior engineers
- •Drive technical design of major agentic-first subsystems including service architecture, data models, and agent/tool integrations
- •Run long-running, multi-agent workflows across decomposition, orchestration, implementation, testing, and review
- •Take major initiatives from ambiguous problem statements through technical design, multi-team execution, rollout, and long-term operability
- •Define evals, harnesses, guardrails, and review rituals for confident code shipping
- •Set the bar for how engineers work with agents, shape internal playbooks, tooling, and rituals
- •Train Senior engineers in the craft
- •Own non-functional requirements such as performance, reliability, and security with attention to software supply chain threats
- •Partner with Product, Security Research, UX, and Support leaders to translate customer needs into technical plans
- •Conduct deep design reviews and mentor to raise quality bar
Nice to Have
- •Experience leading internal rollouts or publishing/open-sourcing agentic workflows
- •Clear point of view on the future of agentic engineering craft
- •Deep curiosity and passion for pushing agentic tools to their limits
Benefits
- •Parental leave
- •Diversity and inclusion working groups
- •Flexible working practices
- •Paid Volunteer Time Off (VTO)
About sonatype
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