Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. StratusGrid is building Stratusphere™, a multi-agent platform for cloud optimization, infrastructure automation, and measurable customer outcomes. The Senior Software Engineer will build and evolve the platform’s web applications, backend infrastructure, data pipelines, and agent tooling while overseeing AI-assisted development, ensuring engineering quality, and collaborating with product, engineering, customer success, and customers.
Responsibilities
- Agent-First Software Development: Actively utilize and oversee AI agents to rapidly test, implement, and mature software solutions across the web platform, backend services, infrastructure, data pipelines, and agent tooling that make up the Stratusphere platform
- Engineering Judgment & Scrutiny: Serve as the ultimate source of judgment for AI-generated plans and code contributed to the Stratusphere platform. Scrutinize all agent-driven implementations to ensure they are rigorously tested, scalable, maintainable, and meet StratusGrid's engineering standards
- Add to the Foundation: Stay current with the latest methods and best practices for improving velocity, quality, and maintainability with agent-first development approaches. Share knowledge and actively contribute to maturing processes, standards, and tooling to which makes the whole team better
- Collaborative System Design: Partner closely with engineering, product, and customer-facing teams to design and evolve the Stratusphere platform, ensuring technical decisions align with strategic goals and customer needs
- Agent Improvement Feedback Loop: Improve agentic architecture, tooling, and prompts to solve for patterns in agent errors and blind spots (e.g., missing context, risky sequencing, unclear rollback, incomplete stakeholder info). Propose rubric changes, training examples, and workflow improvements; partner with Product/Human in the Loop teams to measurably improve quality and safety
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work in high-visibility channels with Engineering, Product, and Customer teams; share context broadly; ask questions early; and support a safe culture where we learn fast without introducing risk through isolation
- Execution with Reliability & Urgency: Own work end-to-end with a strong sense of responsibility. Capture commitments, hit deadlines, communicate status proactively, escalate early, and close the loop visibly—no surprises
- Product Partnership & Roadmap Input: Partner with Product to test solutions to customer problems and recurring friction, iterate from learnings, and implement features which are based on data and proven results
- Operational Excellence & Standards: Follow StratusGrid customer experience standards, change control processes, documentation expectations, and work-system hygiene to ensure consistency, traceability, and scalability
Skills
- Deep expertise in at least one language (preferably Typescript) combined with proficiency in overseeing agentic delivery of solutions in other languages
- Ability to quickly adapt to new languages/frameworks as required
- Skilled in architecting services to allow for layered testing, and then consistently using testing to enforce quality and maintainability while rapidly developing solutions with AI Agents
- Experience contributing to frontend applications, especially NextJS or other React frameworks
- Familiar with, and excited about using, coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI to rapidly plan, write, and test high quality and maintainable code
- Experience querying large datasets with tools like AWS Athena or DuckDB, creating applications backed by relational databases like
- Postgres, and experience working with NoSQL solutions like AWS DynamoDB
- Experience building, maintaining, and using tools like github actions to test code and catch quality issues early
- Proven ability to build and change infrastructure in production AWS environments using infrastructure code, including container environments and cloud native services like lambda, S3, and cloudfront
- Experience integrating observability tooling into software and using it to quickly troubleshoot complex problems and improve system performance
- Exceptional written and verbal communication, able to translate complex technical topics into decision-ready narratives for technical teammates and business stakeholders, with clarity, completeness, and empathy
- Ability to listen to customer concerns and turn them into actionable solutions
- Proven ability to work through ambiguity, identify problems to solve to reach goals, and test and implement solutions to novel problems
- Track record of meeting commitments, proactively communicating status/risks, escalating early, and maintaining high standards of reliability and follow-through
- Demonstrated habit of using AI tools to deliver high quality work at high velocity while maintaining rigorous quality, security awareness, and sound judgment
- Willingness and ability to travel periodically (as needed) for team planning sessions, or onsite work
- Equipped to work effectively in a distributed team environment, including a reliable high-speed internet connection, a professional and distraction-limited workspace, and the ability to consistently communicate, collaborate, and execute independently
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of hire. This position does not offer visa sponsorship
- Located in the Chattanooga, Nashville, Knoxville, or Atlanta Metro area and able to come into the Chattanooga HQ office for coworking on a regular basis
- Experience working with iceberg or other datalake formats and tools like DBT to build high quality and cost effective data pipelines creating unique datasets from mulitple sources. and policy-as-code exposure (OPA/Sentinel/Azure Policy)
- Strong grasp of DevOps principals and operational tooling, practices, and processes used by Cloud Infrastructure teams
- Strong working knowledge of cloud IAM/RBAC and least-privilege operations: ○ AWS IAM roles, cross-account access, SCPs, permission boundaries ○ Azure Entra ID, RBAC, PIM, Azure Policy
- Ability to work effectively within constrained access and compliance requirements
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