Trase Systems

You would develop and support full-stack features, backend services, and API integrations for secure AI applications serving federal and national security partners. | The role requires 10+ years of software engineering experience, U.S. citizenship, modern web framework and backend language proficiency, and cloud or Kubernetes experience. | About Us Co-founded in 2023 by Joe Laws and Grant Verstandig, Trase Systems is AI, Uncomplicated. Trase empowers enterprise leaders to harness the full potential of AI without the associated complexity and risks. We are an end-to-end solution for deploying, managing, and optimizing AI in the enterprise. Our platform specializes in bridging the “last mile” of AI adoption, unlocking AI's full potential while driving efficiency and significant cost savings. Trase is at the forefront of AI Agent innovation, topping the Hugging Face GAIA Leaderboard for Generalized AI Assistants, ahead of industry giants such as Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI. We are leveraging our cutting-edge technologies to develop mission-critical agentic applications in complex industries such as Healthcare, Oil & Gas, and National Security. About the Role 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 Trase's 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. Why this Role is Needed 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 Trase's platform team. What You'll Do 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. Required Qualifications 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, Next.js, or comparable frameworks, including state management, API integration, and clear, accessible user experiences. Strong backend engineering skills in Python, TypeScript/Node.js, 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. Strongly Preferred 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, let’s talk! Salary Range: $180,000-240,000. 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 with strong performance as 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. We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer: You’ll 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. Applicant Data Disclosure By submitting an application, you acknowledge that Red Cell Partners, LLC ("Red Cell") uses third-party service providers to facilitate its recruitment and hiring processes. These providers include applicant tracking systems, candidate verification platforms, and fraud detection tools (collectively, "Hiring Platforms"). Your application materials, including your résumé, cover letter, work samples, responses to application questions, and any other information you submit, may be transmitted to and processed by these Hiring Platforms for the following purposes: Managing and administering your application throughout the hiring process; Verifying the accuracy and authenticity of application materials, including by cross-referencing information you provide against publicly available sources and proprietary databases; Identifying indicators of potentially fraudulent, fabricated, or materially misleading application content, including but not limited to discrepancies between submitted materials and publicly available professional profiles, geographic anomalies, and fabricated work histories. Applications that are flagged through this process as containing indicators of fraud or material misrepresentation may be declined from further consideration. If you have questions about the status of your application or the evaluation process, please contact talent@redcellpartners.com. Red Cell requires its Hiring Platform providers to process your information solely for the purposes described above and in accordance with applicable law. Your information will be retained only for as long as necessary to fulfill these purposes and any applicable legal obligations, after which it will be deleted in accordance with Red Cell's data retention policies. For more information about how your data is used, please refer to our Privacy Policy and Applicant Privacy Notice.

Own core execution-model components such as state machines, lifecycle management, and failure semantics while improving platform reliability and scalability and mentoring engineers. | Requires 8+ years in distributed systems, cross-team architecture leadership, and deep expertise in durable execution, security governance, and a modern language such as Go, Rust, Java, or TypeScript. | About Us Co-founded in 2023 by Joe Laws and Grant Verstandig, Trase Systems is AI, Uncomplicated. Trase empowers enterprise leaders to harness the full potential of AI without the associated complexity and risks. We are an end-to-end solution for deploying, managing, and optimizing AI in the enterprise. Our platform specializes in bridging the “last mile” of AI adoption, unlocking AI's full potential while driving efficiency and significant cost savings. Trase is at the forefront of AI Agent innovation, topping the Hugging Face GAIA Leaderboard for Generalized AI Assistants, ahead of industry giants such as Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI. We are leveraging our cutting-edge technologies to develop mission-critical agentic applications in complex industries such as Healthcare, Oil & Gas, and National Security. About The Role As a Senior or Staff Software Engineer, you'll build and own critical parts of Trase OS, the shared platform that powers Trase deployments in regulated environments. You'll work on the distributed systems and platform primitives connecting workflows, agents, tools, and product surfaces, with a particular focus on reliability, scalability, and correctness. You'll take on technically ambiguous problems, design solutions, and drive them through production. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who is comfortable going deep on distributed systems while helping other engineers make sound architectural decisions. Clean abstractions and correctness-under-failure are critical because we operate long-lived agents in healthcare/defense environments where auditability and reliability are non-negotiable. The level will reflect your experience and demonstrated scope. Staff-level candidates will be expected to lead architecture across teams, establish engineering standards, and mentor other engineers. Why This Role is Needed Trase OS is an orchestration-heavy system coordinating long-lived workflows, agents, and tools across multiple services and environments. As the platform evolves, the primary risks shift from implementation to system design quality: Poor abstractions create tight coupling across services Workflow execution becomes difficult to reason about under failure Platform capabilities fragment instead of becoming reusable primitives Scaling introduces complexity instead of leverage This role exists to: Design and implement clean, durable abstractions for the platform execution model Ensure correctness and determinism in workflow execution Translate evolving product requirements into coherent platform architecture Enable teams to build on Trase OS without introducing systemic complexity What Makes This Role Challenging You are designing systems where failure is the norm, not the exception, and correctness must be preserved across retries, restarts, and partial execution You must balance clean abstractions with real-world constraints (performance, security, multi-tenant environments) Decisions made here become foundational primitives used across all products and teams The system must remain understandable and auditable, even as complexity and scale increase Responsibilities Design, build, and own critical components of the core execution model (state machine, lifecycle, resource model, failure semantics) Build reliable distributed systems that behave predictably across retries, restarts, partial failures, and concurrent execution. Develop platform APIs/SDKs connecting workflows, agents, tools, and product surfaces; drive versioning & compatibility Guarantee correctness via idempotency, deterministic replays, compensating actions, and data integrity Engineer reliability at scale: concurrency controls, rate limits, backpressure, sharding/partitioning, and workload isolation Build security & governance into the core: RBAC/ABAC, policy enforcement, fine-grained audit & lineage Deliver observability: distributed tracing, structured logs, metrics, and evaluation hooks; build an “explainable trail” of agent actions Own quality: design reviews, test strategy (unit, property, chaos), performance baselines, SLOs, incident response, and postmortems Mentor engineers, contribute to design reviews, and help establish strong engineering patterns across the platform. Requirements 8+ years of experience building distributed/platform systems, including significant experience defining architecture across teams or domains 4+ years owning mission-critical runtimes or workflow/orchestration systems Deep expertise with durable execution (e.g., state machines, event sourcing, saga/compensation, idempotency, exactly/at-least-once semantics) Proven track record with security & governance in production systems (auth, RBAC, audit, policy) Hands-on with observability (Grafana or equivalent), including trace correlation across async boundaries Strong systems design across storage, queues, schedulers, and evented architectures; performance tuning under load Excellence in a modern language (e.g., Go, Rust, Java, or TypeScript) and cloud-native stacks (containers, CI/CD, IaC) Comfortable operating in regulated or high-assurance environments; bias toward correctness, clarity, and documentation Strong technical judgment and the ability to influence design decisions within a team and across closely related engineering areas. Ability to incorporate advance LLM capabilities into system design and platform architecture decisions where appropriate Nice to Have Prior work on workflow engines (Temporal/Cadence/AWS Step Functions, Argo, Airflow) or serverless runtimes Experience with policy engines (OPA), secrets/KMS, or data-handling controls (PII/PHI) ML/LLM evaluation frameworks, tool/plugin architectures, or embedding model governance into execution Government or healthcare experience (HIPAA, audit readiness) and multi-tenant isolation If you want to be on the cutting edge of technology, building AI solutions for the future, and are up for a challenge, let’s talk! Salary Range: $180,000-240,000. 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 with strong performance as 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. We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer: You’ll 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. Applicant Data Disclosure By submitting an application, you acknowledge that Red Cell Partners, LLC ("Red Cell") uses third-party service providers to facilitate its recruitment and hiring processes. These providers include applicant tracking systems, candidate verification platforms, and fraud detection tools (collectively, "Hiring Platforms"). Your application materials, including your résumé, cover letter, work samples, responses to application questions, and any other information you submit, may be transmitted to and processed by these Hiring Platforms for the following purposes: Managing and administering your application throughout the hiring process; Verifying the accuracy and authenticity of application materials, including by cross-referencing information you provide against publicly available sources and proprietary databases; Identifying indicators of potentially fraudulent, fabricated, or materially misleading application content, including but not limited to discrepancies between submitted materials and publicly available professional profiles, geographic anomalies, and fabricated work histories. Applications that are flagged through this process as containing indicators of fraud or material misrepresentation may be declined from further consideration. If you have questions about the status of your application or the evaluation process, please contact talent@redcellpartners.com. Red Cell requires its Hiring Platform providers to process your information solely for the purposes described above and in accordance with applicable law. Your information will be retained only for as long as necessary to fulfill these purposes and any applicable legal obligations, after which it will be deleted in accordance with Red Cell's data retention policies. For more information about how your data is used, please refer to our Privacy Policy and Applicant Privacy Notice.