Principal Software Engineer (Platform Architecture & Execution Model)

12-15+ years of experience building distributed/platform systems, including significant experience defining architecture across teams or domains

10+ years owning mission-critical runtimes or workflow/orchestration systems

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)

$240,000-290,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience, skills, and other factors.

#LI-RCP

Our Red Cell Partners Benefits:

For full-time roles

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.

, you’ll own the core execution model and platform architecture of Trase OS - the shared platform (“agentic operating system”) that powers all Trase deployments in regulated environments.

You’ll define the abstractions and APIs that connect workflows, agents, tools, and product surfaces, and ensure the correctness, scalability, and extensibility of the system.

This is a company-critical role: you are responsible for how the system behaves under real-world conditions, including failure, scale, and security constraints.

Your work sets the technical direction for the platform and acts as a force multiplier across all engineering teams.

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.

Architect & lead the core execution model (state machine, lifecycle, resource model, failure semantics)

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