SeniorStaff Full Stack Software Engineer, Federal
Seattle, WA - USA
Job Summary
Trase is the operating system for high-stakes environments providing end-to-end solutions for deploying managing and optimizing AI within industries where security governance and data sovereignty are non-negotiable.
Our HIPAA- and SOC 2-compliant platform bridges the last mile of AI adoption empowering sectors like healthcare and national security to run trustworthy predictable AI agents across any model or environmentwhether in the cloud on-prem or at the edgewith unified policy enforcement continuous monitoring and fully immutable audit trails.
Trases suite of products includes Origin its agentic operating system; Leagues its marketplace for specialized configurable ready-to-deploy agents; and Arena where developers build evaluate and package the agents that run on Origin. The company has repeatedly topped Hugging Faces GAIA Leaderboard for Generalized AI Assistants placing it firmly at the forefront of AI-agent innovation.
As a Senior or Staff Full Stack Software Engineer at Trase you will build and support software for Red Cell Federal (RCF) Red Cell Partners (RCP) and RCP incubations and portfolio companies. You will join Trases dedicated RCF/RCP support team delivering user interfaces backend services APIs and integrations with a strong focus on federal government and national security programs.
Red Cell Partners is an investment and incubation firm that builds and supports technology companies including Trase. Red Cell Federal is our federal-focused partner within that ecosystem. This role helps RCF and other RCP partner companies adopt Trase OS and build secure AI applications for their missions.
This is a hands-on role with ownership from requirements through production support. You will work directly with partner engineers Product the dedicated TPM and DevOps/SRE engineers Trase Platform Engineering and GRC to deliver working solutions across the frontend backend and integration layers.
The level will reflect your experience and demonstrated scope. Senior engineers will independently own complex features and partner integrations end to end. Staff engineers will also lead architecture across engagements establish reusable engineering patterns and mentor engineers.
RCF and RCP companies need software that works within their applications security controls and deployment environments. Success requires intuitive user experiences reliable APIs and agent workflows clear audit trails and dependable integrations.
You will close partner-specific functionality gaps diagnose issues across application and platform boundaries and deliver small validated increments. You will also turn recurring partner needs into reusable improvements with Trases platform team.
- Build full-stack features for RCF/RCP partners from responsive UI interfaces and administrative tools to backend services data models and production integrations.
- Work directly with partner engineers and Product to clarify use cases reproduce issues define acceptance criteria and deliver small increments. Surface scope dependencies and risks with the TPM before committing dates.
- Integrate partner applications and agents with Trase OS APIs and SDKs external APIs MCP tools and model-provider endpoints. Provide working examples and clear integration documentation.
- Build reliable agent and workflow integrations including asynchronous execution event streaming state handling retries timeouts and error recovery. Preserve correctness and data integrity across failures.
- Create usable interfaces for configuring agents managing connections and policies reviewing runs and inspecting logs traces costs and audit history. Make failures and recovery actions understandable to users.
- Implement authentication authorization role-based access secrets integration and audit events across frontend and backend services. Partner with Governance Risk and Compliance on application security findings and engineering evidence for applicable federal requirements.
- Adapt application configuration and dependencies for customer-managed cloud private-network and on-premises environments. Work with DevOps/SRE on packaging deployment prerequisites and end-to-end validation.
- Own quality through code reviews unit and integration tests end-to-end tests representative workflow evaluations and regression coverage. Verify application behavior in the target environment before partner handoff.
- Diagnose and resolve partner-reported defects across the UI APIs SDK data stores and runtime services. Add useful telemetry support incident investigation and validate fixes with partners.
- Support releases upgrades and ongoing application maintenance including federal deployments such as Second Front where applicable. Review and integrate partner contributions maintain API/SDK compatibility and coordinate security fixes with platform and DevOps/SRE owners.
- Document architecture setup known limitations and troubleshooting steps; provide partner walkthroughs and knowledge transfer. Share reusable solutions with the platform team and mentor other engineers.
- U.S. citizenship is required.
- 10 years of software engineering experience with a track record of shipping and supporting production applications; scope and technical leadership appropriate to Senior or Staff level.
- 5 years of hands-on full-stack development spanning modern web frontends backend services APIs and databases.
- Strong frontend skills with TypeScript/JavaScript and React or comparable frameworks including state management API integration and clear accessible user experiences.
- Strong backend engineering skills in Python TypeScript/ Go Java or a similar language including API design service integration validation and error handling.
- Experience designing data models and working with relational databases migrations caching and asynchronous or event-driven processing.
- Experience implementing authentication authorization secure API access secrets handling and audit logging in production applications.
- Hands-on experience with automated testing code review Git containers CI/CD and deploying or troubleshooting applications in cloud or Kubernetes environments.
- Ability to debug across browser service API and data layers using logs metrics and traces and to own issues through validated resolution.
- Strong technical judgment clear written and verbal communication and experience translating ambiguous customer requirements into maintainable solutions and useful documentation.
- Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools to improve implementation testing troubleshooting or code review with careful validation of the resulting changes.
- Prior full-stack software engineering experience supporting national security defense federal agencies or other government programs.
- An active U.S. government security clearance.
- Experience with federal application security and delivery requirements such as STIG hardening NIST controls RMF/ATO evidence FedRAMP or DoD impact-level environments.
- Experience integrating identity providers such as Keycloak using OAuth/OIDC or implementing fine-grained access and sensitive-data controls.
- Experience building AI/LLM applications agent integrations RAG tool/MCP connections evaluations or workflow systems such as Temporal.
- Customer-facing or forward-deployed engineering experience across multiple partner organizations including onboarding technical handoffs and ongoing support.
- Experience adapting applications for government cloud restricted-network or on-premises deployments including Second Front or comparable federal delivery platforms
If you want to be on the cutting edge of technology building AI solutions for the future and are up for a challenge lets talk!
Salary Range: $00. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience skills and other factors.
Some travel to customers may be required.
Our Trase Benefits:
For full-time roles only
- Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement withstrong performanceas the firm grows
- 100% employer paid comprehensive health care including medical dental and vision for you and your family.
- Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees normal pay.
- Unlimited PTO with management approval.
- Opportunities for professional development and continued learning.
- Optional 401K FSA and equity incentives available.
- Mental health benefits are available through Tara Mind.
Were an Equal Opportunity Employer: Youll receive consideration for employment without regard to race sex color religion sexual orientation gender identity national origin protected veteran status or on the basis of disability.
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