Staff AI Agent Engineer

StrongDM is driven by a clear mission: Secure Access, Zero Trust.
We design products and solutions that reflect this commitment, transforming the way organizations manage privileged access across their critical infrastructure. By leading with Zero Trust Privileged Access Management (PAM), we help our customers achieve secure, dynamic, and fine-grained control over access to their most sensitive resources. This focus on security has earned us an industry-leading 98% customer retention rate.
Once a customer, forever a fan. That's our goal.
When you work at StrongDM, you join a team committed to solving today’s security challenges with technology that works and customers who trust us to protect their most critical assets.
If you ask anyone at StrongDM, you’ll find that our values truly guide everything we do—from how we innovate to how we treat each other. These values are the foundation of our culture and define who we are as a company. It may sound cliché, but we’re onto something great—and G2 agrees. 
We embrace the missionWe pursue masteryWe win together
These are the principles we embody as an organization. They influence how we work as individuals and teams, and what we look for in candidates who join us. We’re glad you’re here! If this sounds like an environment where you’d thrive, read on. 
StrongDM applies deep tech to hard problems for demanding cybersecurity customers. Our embrace of large language models continues that tradition, achieving useful and reliable outputs from ambiguous and non-deterministic inputs.
Join our newly-formed AI Agent team to help our global customers secure their most critical systems. Work directly with our co-founder & CTO on the leading edge of this technology wave.

What You'll Do:

• Design and implement a highly concurrent, scalable, and performant distributed system powering our AI agents.
• Build and enhance secure networking protocols, real-time permissions systems, APIs, SDKs, and auditing solutions to meet demanding enterprise security standards.
• Continuously explore, integrate, and innovate using cutting-edge AI models and frameworks to enhance system intelligence and reliability.

Requirements:

• Authentic conviction that AI systems can improve outcomes for ourselves and our customers.
• 7+ years of experience developing distributed systems in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP), preferably serving enterprise customers.
• Strong systems background in operating systems, distributed architectures, networking, concurrency, and database fundamentals.
• Expert command of Go, Rust, C, C++, or similar languages with an emphasis on high-performance, secure, systems-level programming.
• Demonstrated experience with agentic AI systems leveraging advanced large language models (LLMs).
• An AI-first approach, using modern AI tools to enhance software engineering practices, research, and product innovation.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills, proven leadership qualities, and strong communication capabilities.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Experience in training custom AI models or implementing novel AI frameworks.
• Background in cybersecurity, networking, or enterprise-scale permission systems.

Compensation:

• $160K - $300K DOE + equity salary packages
• Company sponsored benefits, including:
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance (free to employees and dependents)
• 401k, HSA, FSA, short / long-term disability coverage, life insurance
• 6 weeks of combined accrued vacation + sick time + R&R days
• Volunteer days + standard holidays, paid parental leave
• Generous monthly and annual stipend for internet + home office