Senior Software Engineer (Python)

Who We Are:

We believe that open-source software, open standards and APIs are the greatest transformational tools for organizations in the modern software development era.

Our mission at Diagrid is to provide developers with APIs and tools that help them focus on their code and not on infrastructure. As online digital services need to handle more load and run on multiple clouds or on-premises environments, programming to higher level abstractions delivers consistent, secure and reliable code that is easily portable and helps organizations de-risk their projects.

Diagrid is founded by the creators of the Dapr and KEDA open-source projects, and who led the user experience, design and development of hyper-scale infrastructure cloud services, serverless platforms and open-source projects at Microsoft. Dapr has now achieved graduated status within the CNCF, joining renowned projects like Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Istio.

We are backed by top VC firms and supported with industry leading investors and advisors including Joe Beda (Kubernetes Co-Founder, former Co-Founder / CTO at Heptio) Matt Klein (Creator of Envoy, Lyft), Mark Russinovich (CTO, Microsoft Azure), William Morgan (Creator of Linkerd, CEO Buoyant), Seth Vargo (Senior Staff Engineer, Google), Adam Gross (Former CEO, Heroku), Sri Viswanath (Former CTO, Atlassian), Adam Frankl (Dev Marketing Expert, Neo4J & JFrog), and Roopak Venkatakrishnan (Head of platforms, Bolt).

About the Team:

We’re seeking a passionate and talented engineer for our AI Engineering team. The position is fully remote with collaboration across The United States and Europe.

Our work in the upstream Dapr repositories is not only consumed by the Community but also serves as functionality to Diagrid’s Catalyst product. Our goal is to ensure stability, reliability and resilient execution of AI agents regardless of the Agent Framework being Dapr Agents, AWS Strands, Microsoft Agent Framework, LangGraph or another. We focus on 2 tracks:

• Dapr Agents (Agentic Framework backed by Dapr Workflows)
https://github.com/dapr/dapr-agents

• Dapr for Agents (facilitating memory (state management) and workflow execution)
https://github.com/dapr/python-sdk/

In the AI Engineering team we value open, transparent and direct communication. We collaborate and uphold ourselves - and each other - to high standards. We’re thorough and ensure that our code is tested, documented and follows our principles for maintainable code. We cherish explorative work and have dedicated time set off to collaborate together on exploring venues and opportunities within our domain.

Our vision is to make Dapr the foundation for reliable execution and orchestration of AI Agents from any Agentic Framework. To complement this, we are expanding Dapr’s own Dapr Agents framework to be the most reliable and scalable framework for building agentic systems. To ensure both of these statements can materialize we will build tooling for LLMs to interact natively with Dapr and its APIs as well as tooling to provide the simplest, most clean and enjoyable developer experience possible.

The AI Engineering team reports to the Team Lead, Casper Nielsen, and is organizationally anchored in the Engineering department under the CTO. As your new manager I’m looking forward to welcoming you to the team! I’m a calm and composed figure with a passion for the intersection between people and technology. I value openness, transparency and direct communication. I’m a schooled software engineer with a background in technical leadership, building platforms & cybersecurity across both pharmaceutical and financial industries. I believe in continuous improvement and growth and thus have an expectation that we, with a joint responsibility, plan, project, and execute on your continued potential.

About the Role:

Your focus in the team is bringing stellar Python experience to increase our ability to deliver best practices and high quality code to Dapr upstream. This role presents a unique opportunity to work directly in one of CNCFs most prominent projects. You’ll partake in setting and implementing the standards of secure and reliable execution of any AI Agent Framework. You’ll do so by extending Dapr and its SDKs to provide bindings for the most popular frameworks as well as extending the Dapr Agents Framework. This role is the definition of bleeding edge, it’s fully remote in a company full of passionate and skilled people happy to welcome you onboard.

Responsibilities:

• You’ll be contributing, reviewing PRs and expanding documentation to and for dapr/dapr-agents, dapr/python-sdk, dapr/durabletask-python and dapr/docs upstream

• Collaborate with partners on integration of Agentic Frameworks into the Dapr ecosystem

• Participate in the Dapr community (on Discord, Community calls, etc.)

• Participate in promoting the Dapr project with Blog posts, recordings and demos

• Assist our Customer Success team on AI & Agentic engagements

At Diagrid we write backend code in Go and you will interface and interact with Go however your focus is Python. Some familiarity with Kubernetes is needed in order to excel at this role.

You’ll enter the team as we’re working towards one of our two major milestone deliveries, Kubecon Europe during spring and Kubecon North America during autumn. You’ll participate in getting Dapr Agents into stable release (v1.x).

Requirements:

• 5+ years of running Python in production

• 3+ years of experience writing tests and testing Python code

• 2+ years of experience with Python package management

• 2+ years of experience with managing SDKs (internal or external)

• Solid understanding of async programming

• Solid track record of writing strongly typed Python code

• Solid understanding of Agentic workflows/systems

• Open Source contribution and/or maintaining is a huge plus

Diagrid Benefits:

• Competitive compensation

• Company equity

• Remote first & flexible work environment

• Flexible paid time off

• Comprehensive healthcare for you and your dependents

• Choice of hardware

• $1000 for home office setup

• Monthly WFH stipend

• Team events & gatherings

• Chance to collaborate with industry-leading figures 

Diagrid, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.