As a Technical Lead on Zooxs internal agentic platform you will own end-to-end integration of a tool-centric agent runtime with external and internal agent clients line of business backends scheduled and interactive agent workloads and cloud operations (Kubernetes observability secrets management). You will translate architecture and security intent into stable tool contracts testable integration milestones and repeatable releases and you will be the primary engineer when issues sit at the boundary between product surfaces platform services and upstream systems.
This role is platform and service integration for an agentic framework that mediates tools (discovery invocation policy and telemetry). Success is measured by reliable tool call paths over HTTP correct authentication and scoping environment parity from dev through production and clear ownership across partner engineering security and infrastructure teams.
In this role you will:
Own and lead integration strategy and execution across hosted services shared libraries standardized tool protocols (e.g. JSON-RPC over HTTP) REST APIs and diverse callers (vendor agents consoles automation workers).
Drive cross-functional delivery with backend API teams partner agent owners security SRE/platform and program management ensuring formal sign-off where required.
Debug and root-cause complex failures using structured logs distributed traces metrics and gateway/session-token behavior documenting durable mitigations and runbooks.
Define and review all integration artifacts (contracts allowlists registry config environment matrices and interface assumptions) that upstream and downstream teams implement against.
Contribute to release gating by ensuring container image promotion configuration/secrets posture smoke path execution for high-traffic flows and disciplined branching/tagging for production intent
Qualifications:
BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field with 7 years of software engineering experience strong in integration platform or backend roles.
Strong Python (production services async I/O automated testing) and comfort in a large monorepo with CI-driven delivery.
Deep experience with HTTP integration (REST/JSON-RPC TLS debugging under load) and shipping services on Kubernetes (deployments health checks troubleshooting).
Auth integration experience: bearer tokens JWT validation OAuth2/OIDC or enterprise SSO concepts and least-privilege scoping
Bonus Qualifications
Exposure to Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar agent tool-calling and orchestration models used in industry or internal platforms.
Observability-led integration habits: metrics traces structured logging and basic SLO or dashboard thinking for integration health.
Background in security-sensitive integrations (data minimization external partner access review cycles with security or compliance).
$225000 - $249000 a year
Base Salary Range
There are three major components to compensation for this position: salary Amazon Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights. A sign-on bonus may be offered as part of the compensation package. The listed range applies only to the base salary. Compensation will vary based on geographic location and level. Leveling as well as positioning within a level is determined by a range of factors including but not limited to a candidates relevant years of experience domain knowledge and interview performance. The salary range listed in this posting is representative of the range of levels Zoox is considering for this position.
Zoox also offers a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (e.g. sick leave vacation bereavement) unpaid time off Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights Amazon RSUs health insurance long-term care insurance long-term and short-term disability insurance and life insurance.
About Zoox
Zoox is developing the first ground-up fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem required to bring this technology to market. Sitting at the intersection of robotics machine learning and design Zoox aims to provide the next generation of mobility-as-a-service in urban environments. Were looking for top talent that shares our passion and wants to be part of a fast-moving and highly execution-oriented team.
Accommodations
A Final Note:
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
As a Technical Lead on Zooxs internal agentic platform you will own end-to-end integration of a tool-centric agent runtime with external and internal agent clients line of business backends scheduled and interactive agent workloads and cloud operations (Kubernetes observability secrets management). ...
As a Technical Lead on Zooxs internal agentic platform you will own end-to-end integration of a tool-centric agent runtime with external and internal agent clients line of business backends scheduled and interactive agent workloads and cloud operations (Kubernetes observability secrets management). You will translate architecture and security intent into stable tool contracts testable integration milestones and repeatable releases and you will be the primary engineer when issues sit at the boundary between product surfaces platform services and upstream systems.
This role is platform and service integration for an agentic framework that mediates tools (discovery invocation policy and telemetry). Success is measured by reliable tool call paths over HTTP correct authentication and scoping environment parity from dev through production and clear ownership across partner engineering security and infrastructure teams.
In this role you will:
Own and lead integration strategy and execution across hosted services shared libraries standardized tool protocols (e.g. JSON-RPC over HTTP) REST APIs and diverse callers (vendor agents consoles automation workers).
Drive cross-functional delivery with backend API teams partner agent owners security SRE/platform and program management ensuring formal sign-off where required.
Debug and root-cause complex failures using structured logs distributed traces metrics and gateway/session-token behavior documenting durable mitigations and runbooks.
Define and review all integration artifacts (contracts allowlists registry config environment matrices and interface assumptions) that upstream and downstream teams implement against.
Contribute to release gating by ensuring container image promotion configuration/secrets posture smoke path execution for high-traffic flows and disciplined branching/tagging for production intent
Qualifications:
BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field with 7 years of software engineering experience strong in integration platform or backend roles.
Strong Python (production services async I/O automated testing) and comfort in a large monorepo with CI-driven delivery.
Deep experience with HTTP integration (REST/JSON-RPC TLS debugging under load) and shipping services on Kubernetes (deployments health checks troubleshooting).
Auth integration experience: bearer tokens JWT validation OAuth2/OIDC or enterprise SSO concepts and least-privilege scoping
Bonus Qualifications
Exposure to Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar agent tool-calling and orchestration models used in industry or internal platforms.
Observability-led integration habits: metrics traces structured logging and basic SLO or dashboard thinking for integration health.
Background in security-sensitive integrations (data minimization external partner access review cycles with security or compliance).
$225000 - $249000 a year
Base Salary Range
There are three major components to compensation for this position: salary Amazon Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights. A sign-on bonus may be offered as part of the compensation package. The listed range applies only to the base salary. Compensation will vary based on geographic location and level. Leveling as well as positioning within a level is determined by a range of factors including but not limited to a candidates relevant years of experience domain knowledge and interview performance. The salary range listed in this posting is representative of the range of levels Zoox is considering for this position.
Zoox also offers a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (e.g. sick leave vacation bereavement) unpaid time off Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights Amazon RSUs health insurance long-term care insurance long-term and short-term disability insurance and life insurance.
About Zoox
Zoox is developing the first ground-up fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem required to bring this technology to market. Sitting at the intersection of robotics machine learning and design Zoox aims to provide the next generation of mobility-as-a-service in urban environments. Were looking for top talent that shares our passion and wants to be part of a fast-moving and highly execution-oriented team.
Accommodations
A Final Note:
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
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