- Core runtime surfaces of syndi-api: the agent loop, tool execution and registry, memory, context management (Python, Postgres, Claude on Vertex, GCP).

- The eval system — offline gates and online detector/judge evals written onto production traces — and its growth as product teams adopt it.

- Production operation: observability (Datadog LLM Obs), incident response, the reliability of an agent surface real customers use.

- The platform's contribution seams: reviewing product teams' tool wrappers and evals, evolving the GET /tools registry and drift-detection contract.

- Clarifying, designing, and implementing compliance and legal requirements for Syndi.

Requirements

- 5+ years building production backend systems; deep comfort with Python, relational stores, and cloud infra (we're on GCP/Kubernetes).

- You've built LLM-powered systems in production — an agent loop, tool-calling integration, RAG, or eval infrastructure — and have opinions from the scar tissue.

- You design for operability: legal compliance, tracing, evals, and kill switches are part of the feature, not afterthoughts.

- You can own a technical domain with light supervision: propose direction in writing with clear API specs, take review, ship, and carry the pager for what you shipped.





- Robust written communication — our operating model runs on design docs and PR review across team boundaries.

- Nice to have: experience being the platform side of a platform/product relationship; SSE/streaming systems; compliance-adjacent engineering (data minimization, auditability); prior Staff scope.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in building production backend systems with a focus on Python, GCP, and compliance requirements. Capable of designing operable systems that integrate LLM technologies and ensure reliability and observability.

Highest-signal resume keywords

- Python Development

- GCP Infrastructure

- LLM-Powered Systems

- Production Backend Systems

- Strong Written Communication

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

- Python

- Relational Databases

- Cloud Infrastructure

- Kubernetes

- LLM Integration

- API Design

- Incident Response

- Compliance Engineering

- Tracing

- Eval Infrastructure

Soft Skills

- Strong Written Communication

- Collaboration

Industry Keywords

- Compliance

- Observability

- Incident Response

- Data Minimization

- Auditability

Tools & Technologies

- Postgres

- Datadog

- Syndi-API

- Claude on Vertex

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