Staff Software Engineer - Agentic First
Overview:
In this Staff role, you will architect and deliver agentic-first capabilities for Nexus Repository Manager, guiding a major product area across multiple teams. You'll set technical direction, mentor engineers, and shape practices that scale to enterprise demands. You'll tackle challenges at the intersection of AI, distributed systems, and software supply chain security, influencing how customers build software securely. This is a chance to impact a high-profile product used by millions of developers and Fortunes 100 companies, while advancing a new era of agent-driven software development. Compensation / Benefitsparental leavediversity and inclusion programsflexible working practicespaid Volunteer Time Off (VTO)equal-opportunity employercareer growth opportunities
Responsibilities:
- Architect and lead major agentic-first subsystems including service architecture and data models
- Own a product area from problem framing to rollout and long-term operability
- Define verification and review rituals to ship code with minimal manual generation
- Define internal practices, tooling, and training for engineers
- Own non-functional requirements (performance, reliability, security) for your area
- Collaborate with Product, Security Research, UX, and Support to translate customer needs into technical plans
Key requirements:
- 7+ years of professional software development
- Strong experience with JavaCloud expertise (AWS/Azure/GCP)
- Extensive experience with large-scale distributed systems
- Deep knowledge of software supply chain security concepts (SBOMs, SCA, SLSA, Sigstore/cosign) and vulnerability analysis
- Proven track record leading multi-team, multi-quarter initiatives
- Hands-on experience with multi-agent systems or agentic workflows
- Cross-functional leadership
- Mentorship and coaching
- Strategic thinking and independent decision-making
- JavaCloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Multi-agent system design and orchestration