Software Engineer (AI)

Location: Hybrid, based out of the San Francisco, New York City, or Seattle hubs in the United States

Salary: $172.6K–$304.1K base compensation in San Francisco and New York City; $155.4K–$273.7K in other US locations, plus equity.

Company

Writer develops an enterprise AI platform for building and deploying AI agents powered by company data and enterprise-grade large language models.

What you will do

• Design and deliver secure, scalable AI integration platforms connecting enterprise systems and powering mission-critical automation.
• Shape the AI integration client ecosystem and enable secure connections to external tools, data sources, and enterprise systems.
• Own backend service design for high-throughput, low-latency APIs supporting agent workflows and cross-system orchestration.
• Define identity, authentication, and trust-boundary strategies for OAuth, API keys, and service-to-service integrations.
• Partner with product and engineering leaders on technical strategy, roadmap development, architecture reviews, and delivery.
• Improve production reliability through SLOs, SLAs, observability, incident readiness, performance optimization, testing standards, and mentorship.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production backend systems with TypeScript, Deno, Node.js, or Bun.
• Experience designing API-driven platform services and distributed systems, including microservices, event-driven patterns, and secure service-to-service communication.
• Practical experience building AI integration layers such as MCP clients or servers, tool orchestration, external API connectors, and authentication mediation.
• Strong knowledge of OAuth2/OIDC, API keys, token lifecycle management, secret management, and least-privilege access.
• Cloud-native experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, including Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and production operations.
• Experience with observability, reliability engineering, service metrics, SLOs/SLAs, incident response, performance tuning, technical leadership, and mentoring.

Nice to have

• Experience with Python ecosystems and PostgreSQL.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work from the San Francisco, New York City, or Seattle office hubs.
• Generous paid time off and company holidays.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus a health savings account and flexible spending options.
• Sixteen weeks of paid parental leave for all parents, fertility and family planning support, and early-detection cancer testing.
• Wellness and learning and development stipends, company off-sites, equity, and a 401k.