Agility Robotics is a pioneer. Our robot, Digit, is the first to be sold into workplaces across the globe. Our team is differentiated by its expertise in imagining, engineering, and delivering robots with advanced mobility, dexterity, intelligence, and efficiency -- robots specifically designed to work alongside people, in spaces built for people. Every day, we break through engineering challenges and invent new solutions and capabilities that will one day make robots commonplace and approachable. This work is our passion and our responsibility: our mission is to make businesses more productive and people’s lives more fulfilling.
Join the team building the internal platforms and developer experience that power engineering across Agility. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will architect and own the foundational tools and services that make engineers more productive, from company-wide command-line tooling to self-service abstractions of infrastructure, networking, and identity.
You will be one of the first dedicated hires focused on internal services and developer experience, responsible for designing and delivering frameworks that every engineer uses daily. Your work will empower software, data, and robotics teams to focus on building products without wrestling with low-level infrastructure. Projects may range from routing and IAM services that underpin secure and reliable platforms, to services and tooling that connect engineers seamlessly to our fleet of robots and IoT devices.
Key ResponsibilitiesVision: Define the long-term vision for internal tooling, services, and developer experience, ensuring alignment with company goals and engineering best practices.
Strategy: Deliver a roadmap for a company-wide CLI framework, shared tooling, and platform services (e.g., routing, IAM), enabling consistent, secure, and extensible workflows across engineering teams.
Collaboration: Partner with platform, security, application, and robotics engineers to understand needs and translate infrastructure complexity into intuitive workflows.
Execution:
- Design and implement a CLI harness and plugin framework that teams can extend for their own use cases (e.g., onboarding, secrets, robot access).
- Build self-service abstractions for infrastructure and networking (e.g., simplifying Terraform configs into easy-to-use APIs or commands).
- Design and maintain shared services like routing, IAM, and internal API gateways that support reliability and scale.
- Establish standards for tooling ergonomics, security, and reliability.
- Create libraries, SDKs, and automation frameworks to unify workflows across teams.
Leadership:
- Drive adoption of internal tools by treating engineers as your “customers” and iterating based on feedback.
- Mentor engineers and influence the broader developer platform roadmap.
- Champion best practices in developer experience and internal platform design.
What We’re Aiming For
- A company-wide CLI that supports onboarding, secrets, robot access, and everyday workflows.
- An extensible plugin system that allows teams to integrate their own commands without fragmentation.
- Abstractions of infrastructure and networking that make advanced configurations accessible to non-infra engineers.
- Shared services for routing, IAM, and connectivity that underpin the reliability and security of our platforms.
- A set of adopted, standardized internal tools that improve developer velocity and security.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with a demonstrated track record of building developer-facing tools (CLIs, SDKs, APIs, automation frameworks).
- Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or similar languages.
- Experience designing frameworks or extensible systems.
- Ability to gather requirements, communicate trade-offs, and drive adoption of internal solutions.
- Strong collaboration skills and ability to influence without authority across multiple engineering domains.
- Familiarity with infrastructure tooling (Terraform, Kubernetes) or networking concepts (DNS, VPCs, routing).
- Experience with identity and access management (IAM) systems or security-focused platform services.
- Experience with developer onboarding, productivity tooling, or security workflows.
- Background in developer platforms or internal DX initiatives.
- Experience building microservices for IoT or connected devices, particularly where security, reliability, and real-time constraints are important.
- Contributions to open source developer tools.
Why This Role?
- Greenfield/Zero-to-One: Define and build the company-wide CLI and internal services framework from the ground up.
- High Impact: Everything you build will be used by every engineer, every day.
- Collaboration: Work closely with robotics, platform, and application engineers on mission-critical workflows.
- Engineering Culture: Remote-friendly with a strong emphasis on developer experience, mentorship, and technical excellence.
This is a fully remote role with the option to work hybrid if a commutable distance from our Salem, Pittsburgh, or Bay Area offices.
Full-time Employees are eligible for Benefits:
- 401(k) Plan: Includes a 6% company match.
- Equity: Company stock options.
- Insurance Coverage: 100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, and short/long-term disability insurance for employees.
- Benefit Start Date: Eligible for benefits on your first day of employment.
- Well-Being Support: Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Time Off:
- Exempt Employees: Flexible, unlimited PTO and 10 company holidays, including a winter shutdown.
- Non-Exempt Employees: 10 vacation days, paid sick leave, and 10 company holidays, including a winter shutdown, annually.
- On-Site Perks: Catered lunches four times a week and a variety of healthy snacks and refreshments at our Salem and Pittsburgh locations.
- Parental Leave: Generous paid parental leave programs.
- Work Environment: A culture that supports flexible work arrangements.
- Growth Opportunities: Professional development and tuition reimbursement programs.
- Relocation Assistance: Provided for eligible roles.
All of our roles are U.S.-based. Applicants must have current authorization to work in the United States.
Agility Robotics is committed to a work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. Each individual has the right to work in a professional atmosphere that promotes equal employment opportunities and prohibits unlawful discriminatory practices, including harassment. Therefore, it is the policy of Agility Robotics to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, national origin, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Agility Robotics prohibits any such discrimination or harassment.
Agility Robotics does not accept unsolicited referrals from third-party recruiting agencies. We prioritize direct applicants and encourage all qualified candidates to apply directly through our careers page. If you are represented by a third party, your application may not be considered. To ensure full consideration, please apply directly.
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