Staff Software Engineer - Agentic First

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      "text": "What You Will do",
      "content": "<div>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;\">\n<li><strong>Architect &amp; Lead With Agents</strong>: Drive the technical design of major agentic-first subsystems — service architecture, data models, and agent/tool integrations — by running long-running, multi-agent workflows across decomposition, orchestration, implementation, testing, and review.</li>\n\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;\">\n<li><strong>Own a Product Area</strong>: Take major initiatives from ambiguous problem statements through technical design, multi-team execution, rollout, and long-term operability.</li>\n\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;\">\n<li>V<strong>erification Over Generation, at Scale</strong>: Spend your time on direction, review, and taste rather than line-by-line coding. Define the evals, harnesses, guardrails, and review rituals that let your team confidently ship code no human typed.</li>\n\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;\">\n<li><strong>Define the Practice</strong>: Set the bar for how Sonatype engineers work with agents. Shape internal playbooks, tooling, and rituals; train Senior engineers in the craft; and raise the ceiling on what's possible.</li>\n\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;\">\n<li><strong>Architecture, Security &amp; Reliability</strong>: Own non-functional requirements for your area — performance, reliability, and security — with particular attention to software supply chain threats (malicious packages, dependency confusion, provenance, SBOM accuracy).</li>\n\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;\">\n<li><strong>Cross-functional Leadership</strong>: Partner with Product, Security Research, UX, and Support leaders to translate ambiguous customer needs into concrete, shippable technical plans; conduct deep design reviews; and raise the quality bar through thoughtful mentorship.</li>\n\n</ul></ul></ul></ul></ul></ul></div>"
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      "text": "Who You Are",
      "content": "<div>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;\">\n<li><strong>Long-running Agentic Developer</strong>: Multi-step, long-running agent workflows are your default way of building software — well beyond Copilot-style autocomplete. You routinely orchestrate fleets of agents in parallel across planning, coding, testing, and review, and your own time is spent on direction, verification, and taste rather than generation.</li>\n\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;\">\n<li><strong>Multi-agent Orchestration at Depth</strong>: 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 shipped production work this way and have strong opinions on what holds up at scale.</li>\n\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;\">\n<li><strong>Verification-first Mindset</strong>: You've internalized that the new leverage point is human judgment over machine generation. You define the evals, test harnesses, observability, and review workflows that let a team confidently ship code no one personally typed.</li>\n\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;\">\n<li><strong>Shapes Leading-edge Practice</strong>: 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, and have a clear point of view on where the craft is heading.</li>\n\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;\">\n<li><strong>Product Engineering Mindset:</strong> Half product, half engineering. You make product decisions independently and drive scope, trade-offs, and sequencing without constant PM hand-holding.</li>\n\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;\">\n<li>F<strong>ocused on What Matters: </strong>You want to build mission-critical products that drive revenue and transform how customers build software.</li>\n\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;\">\n<li><strong>Staff-level Engineering Skills:</strong> 7+ years of professional software development, with a track record of leading multi-quarter technical initiatives that span multiple teams or services.</li>\n\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;\">\n<li><strong>Deep Technical Foundation:</strong> Strong experience with Java, Cloud (AWS / Azure / GCP), and large-scale distributed systems — including performance tuning, data-intensive services, and production operability at scale.</li>\n\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;\">\n<li><strong>DevSecOps &amp; Supply Chain Depth: </strong>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.</li>\n\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;\">\n<li><strong>Deeply Curious:</strong> You push agentic tools to their limits — probing where they work, where they break, and how to make them better. You're energized by being early in a fundamentally new way of building software.</li>\n\n</ul></ul></ul></ul></ul></ul></ul></ul></ul></ul></div>"
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