Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform (US - Remote or Calgary)

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.

Strong 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.

💰 Competitive Compensation. For this role our salary is targeted at $205-225k USD or $180-200k CAD per year. Final offer amounts are determined by factors such as experience and expertise.

🏆 Syndio Equity. So you can share in Syndio’s success

🏝 Flexible Vacation Policy. We encourage our team to recharge when they need to (up to 20 days PTO in Canada) plus paid sick & safe time, compassion leave, and voting leave.

🩺 Medical, Dental, Vision. Syndio pays 90% of employee premiums, and 50% for dependents.

🏥 Life Insurance & Disability. Syndio covers the full premium.

📍Remote within the US or Calgary #LI-Remote

First 30 days : Focus on onboarding, mastering our core agent runtime surfaces, and shipping a small-scale contribution to understand the platform's contribution seams.

First 60 days : Independently manage core runtime surfaces, troubleshoot complex issues, and start co-owning a consumer team's integration from API design to eval sign-off.

First 90 days : Concretely ship a major runtime capability end-to-end (e.g., multimodal input or a new channel surface), take on-call for the platform, and co-own a consumer team's integration from API design to eval sign-off.

Below you'll find an outline of the interview plan for our Senior Software Engineer (AI Platform) position. Please note that this is what we expect the process to look like; we may ask you for supplemental information or require an additional step before making a final decision.

Recruiter Screen (25 min)

Hiring Manager Interview (30 min)

Technical Evaluation - Design Skills (60 min)

Crossfunctional Team Interviews (2 x 30 min)

At Syndio, we're building a diverse team that values candor, curiosity, and community. If you share these values and are interested in joining us, we'd love to talk with you even if you don't 100% meet the "about you" listed here. We don't expect anyone to have all the answers, as long as you're willing to learn and grow with us.

Syndio is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are building an inclusive and collaborative workplace as we grow, and we welcome team members regardless of gender/identity, sexual orientation, race or cultural background, religion, physical disability and age.