Senior Software Engineer, Agent Infrastructure and Reliability

New York, NY
Full-time
Visa Sponsorship

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

Distributed Systems

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Job details

Salary

$175,000 - $200,000

Equity

0.5% - 2%

Location

New York, NY

Experience

6+ years

Company

NameCharacterQuilt
IndustryMarketing
Team Size4

Funding

Total raised

$13M

Last stage

Series A

Investors

Y Combinator
Moment Ventures
AAnalog Ventures
NNOMO Ventures
Palm Drive Capital

Founders

Clint Burgess

Clint Burgess

Co-Founder & CMO

LinkedIn
Bhairav Mehta

Bhairav Mehta

Co-Founder & CEO

LinkedIn

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.