As an agentic-first Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the design and delivery of enterprise-grade, agentic-first capabilities within Nexus Repository Manager.
You'll set technical direction for a major product area, orchestrate fleets of agents across parallel workstreams as your primary mode of work.
You'll partner with Principal engineers on the hardest technical decisions and mentor Senior engineers.

What You Will Do:

Architect & Lead With Agents: Drive the technical design of major agentic-first subsystems by running multi-agent workflows.
Own a Product Area: Take major initiatives from ambiguous problem statements through technical design, execution, and rollout.
Verification Over Generation: Define the evals, harnesses, guardrails, and review rituals to confidently ship code no human typed.

Who You Are:

Long-running Agentic Developer: Multi-step, long-running agent workflows are your default way of building software.
Multi-agent Orchestration at Depth: Hands-on experience designing, running, and scaling multi-agent systems.
Verification-first Mindset: You've internalized that the new leverage point is human judgment over machine generation.

Sonatype

Sonatype is the software supply chain security company, providing end-to-end security solutions that combine proactive protection against malicious open source, enterprise-grade SBOM management, and the leading open source dependency management platform. Over 2,000 organizations, including 70% of the Fortune 100 and 15 million software developers, rely on Sonatype, and the company values diversity, inclusivity, and offers flexible working practices.

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