Senior Software Engineer, Agent Infrastructure and Reliability
About the role
What we're building
Enterprise marketing still runs through agencies because launching one campaign means coordinating specialists across Marketo, HubSpot, Meta, LinkedIn, CMSs, and a dozen other systems. It takes weeks.
CharacterQuilt uses computer-use agents to do that work inside the software companies already use. A campaign that took three months can now ship in two days. We raised $13M and were one of the fastest-growing companies in YC's P26 batch.
The role
You'll set the architecture and reliability bar for the infrastructure that runs every CharacterQuilt agent.
This is not a narrow platform role. You'll own the system from Postgres and the filesystem through workers, sandboxes, authenticated browsers, and the product state customers see.
What you'll own
- Worker and sandbox orchestration that stays correct through crashes, retries, and timeouts.
- Durable execution, idempotency, recovery, and observability for consequential agent actions.
- Browser profiles, credentials, tenant isolation, and authenticated session reliability.
- The API, CLI, and MCP surfaces around our agent runtime.
- A simpler system and a higher engineering bar as the team grows.
You might be a fit if
- You've owned production distributed systems, developer infrastructure, or browser automation.
- You can debug across application code, databases, queues, networks, and filesystems.
- You want staff-level scope without staff-level distance from the work.
Five days a week in Nomad NYC. $175K to $250K base plus 0.5% to 2% equity. We do not sponsor US visas.
About CharacterQuilt
Computer use agents to deploy enterprise marketing campaigns
Required skills
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Job details
Salary
$175,000 - $200,000
Equity
0.5% - 2%
Location
New York, NY
Experience
6+ years
Funding
Total raised
$13M
Last stage
Series A
Investors
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.
