Senior Software Engineer, Platform
Content + Source + Freshness • 11 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Very high value due to exceptional compensation, opportunities for innovation in software engineering, and critical role in scaling AI platforms.
- Salary range: $300K – $415K with equity opportunities
- Direct involvement in the development of AI infrastructure
- Autonomy and responsibility on high-impact projects
- Requires substantial experience and a problem-solving mindset
Pros
- Highly attractive salary range ($300K – $415K) with potential equity
- Opportunity to make significant contributions to high-traffic systems
- Engagement with cutting-edge AI technology
Cons
- Requires extensive experience (4+ years) in specialized technologies
- High expectations with little tolerance for errors
- Potentially limited work-life balance due to project demands
Who it's for
Senior / Lead • On-site
Good fit
- Senior software engineers with AI expertise
- Candidates eager to work on high-scale engineering challenges
- Professionals who thrive in dynamic and autonomous environments
Not recommended for
- Junior developers lacking experience
- Individuals not comfortable with complex problem-solving
- Those preferring strictly defined roles without autonomy
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
About Decagon
Decagon is building the most advanced conversational AI agents for the enterprise. Since starting the company, we've been on a tear, winning over customers like Duolingo, Notion, Rippling, Eventbrite, Webflow, BILT and many more. Our AI agents provide a human-like customer support experience that enables enterprises to better serve their customers and efficiently manage their customer experience organizations.
We've raised $100M in total funding from Bain Capital Ventures, Accel, a16z, BOND Capital, A*, Elad Gil, and notable angels, including the founders of Box, Airtable, Rippling, Okta, Lattice, and Klaviyo.
About the Team
The Platform Engineering team at Decagon designs the proprietary orchestration layer that powers the most advanced conversational AI agents for enterprise customers across voice, chat, email and SMS. Decagon’s leading customer support agents understand context, respond with genuine empathy, and solve complex problems with surgical precision.
Our mission is to deliver magical support experiences — AI agents working alongside human agents to help users resolve their issues.
About the Role
On the Platform Engineering team, you’ll architect and build the lightning-fast infrastructure that powers hundreds of millions of interactions annually. You will develop cutting-edge methods to orchestrate high intelligence models within low-latency constraints.
Engineers here own their work end-to-end and are trusted to make a real impact. This role is for someone who dives deep into complex system challenges, builds elegant solutions that scale to millions of users, and creates automation that prevents problems before they happen.
In this role, you will
Design an AI agent platform that supports executing complex tasks across a wide range of domains precisely
Develop techniques for evaluating state of the art text and audio models
Architect highly asynchronous, multimodal systems that operate on both audio and text-based data
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Build automation that monitors and detects intermittent issues across hundreds of millions of interactions
Your background looks something like this
Have 4+ years of industry experience in software engineering
Proficiency with Typescript, Python and asynchronous programming
A high degree of comfort digging into systems failures within deep technology stacks using any tool necessary
Even better
Prior experience working with multi-modal models
Benefits:
Medical, dental, and vision benefits
Take what you need vacation policy
Daily lunches, dinners and snacks in the office to keep you at your best
Compensation
$300K – $415K + Offers Equity
