Staff Software Engineer – Agentic First

Job Description: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 as your primary mode of work. Define the agentic engineering practices that other teams will learn from. Partner with Principal engineers on the hardest technical decisions and mentor Senior engineers. Own the architecture of agentic-first features in a product used by 15 million developers and 70% of the Fortune 100. Work on the hardest problems at the intersection of AI, distributed systems, and software supply chain security. Requirements:7+ years of professional software development, with a track record of leading multi-quarter technical initiatives that span multiple teams or services. Strong experience with Java, Cloud (AWS / Azure / GCP), and large-scale distributed systems — including performance tuning, data-intensive services, and production operability at scale. Working knowledge of software supply chain security — SBOM formats (CycloneDX, SPDX), SCA, SLSA provenance, Sigstore/cosign signing, vulnerability analysis (OSV, NVD), and common attack patterns against package ecosystems. Multi-step, long-running agent workflows are your default way of building software — well beyond Copilot-style autocomplete. Hands-on experience designing, running, and scaling multi-agent systems (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor background agents, custom orchestrators, LangGraph-style graphs) — including MCP tooling, shared context and memory, agent handoffs, and robust eval harnesses. You've internalized that the new leverage point is human judgment over machine generation. You don't just adopt agentic workflows — you define them. You've led internal rollouts, published, open-sourced, or otherwise pushed the state of the art on how engineers work alongside agents. You make product decisions independently and drive scope, trade-offs, and sequencing without constant PM hand-holding. You want to build mission-critical products that drive revenue and transform how customers build software. Strong opinion on what holds up at scale. Benefits:Parental leave Diversity and inclusion working groups Flexible working practices