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TheLoops, an IFS company, is the first enterprise-grade AI Agent platform built for mission-critical applications and industries. Our AI Agents act as digital coworkers that are governed, secure, always learning, and working 24/7 to drive measurable business outcomes.
As we grow, we’re looking for driven, collaborative and ambitious individuals to help us deliver the future of AI-powered operations
By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of aglobal, diverse environment; you will be joining awinning team with acommitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you canmake a positive impact on the world.
We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can#MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.
If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.
Job Description
We’re seeking aStaff Platform Engineer to help shape the future ofagentic AI systems . In this role you will help design the backbone of our real-time, distributed systems. You’ll be at the forefront of building systems that orchestrate massive data flows, reactive services, and agentic workloads—systems that must adapt dynamically and operate reliably under heavy and unpredictable load. You’ll work with tools likeKafka ,Akka ,stream processing frameworks , and other core distributed technologies, and collaborate across engineering teams to deliver infrastructure that is elastic, fault-tolerant, and observable by design.
If you’re passionate about high-performance computing, resilient architecture, and enabling real-time intelligence at scale, this role is for you.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable, distributed platform components with technologies likeKafka ,Akka (Typed) ,gRPC .
- Architect and optimize data pipelines capable of handlingbillions of messages/events per day with low latency and high reliability.
- Lead efforts inagentic scaling – dynamically spawning, routing, and managing autonomous agents (services/functions) in response to workload or demand.
- Build resilient systems thatself-heal, auto-scale , and degrade gracefully under pressure.
- Define and implement metrics, tracing, and observability for end-to-end system behavior and performance.
- Collaborate closely with infrastructure, SRE, and product teams to ensure platform scalability aligns with growth and reliability goals.
- Drive root-cause analysis of performance bottlenecks and propose long-term architectural improvements.
- Participate in on-call rotations, architecture reviews, and deep technical design sessions.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience buildingdistributed systems in a high-throughput production environment.
- Deep expertise withKafka (topics, partitions, consumers, tuning, schema registry, stream processing).
- Strong experience withAkka or other actor-based concurrency models; familiarity with Akka Cluster, Sharding, Persistence, or Typed API.
- Solid programming skills inJava .
- Understanding ofagentic workloads and dynamic system orchestration (e.g., microservices that represent intelligent agents).
- Experience designingscalable APIs , message protocols (e.g., Protobuf, Avro), and event-driven architectures.
- Familiarity withcloud- environments (e.g., Kubernetes, service mesh, container orchestration).
Qualifications
- Experience withserverless compute models orfunction-as-a-service scaling paradigms.
- Contributions to open-source projects in the distributed systems ecosystem.
- Experience withAI or ML-driven orchestration oragentic frameworks .
- Familiarity withoperational tooling : Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Kafka monitoring tools, etc.
Additional Information
What We’re Offering
- Salary Range: $175,000-200,000total comp
- Flexible paid time off, including sick and holiday
- Medical, dental, & vision insurance
- 401K with Company contribution
- Flexible spending accounts
- Life insurance and benefits
- Tuition assistance
- Community involvement and volunteering events
M/F/Disabled/Vet VEVRAA Federal Contractor. We are a Drug-Free Workplace. Interested candidates should apply at: -at-ifs
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to , , , , , , , , or status as a protected veteran. VEVRAA Federal Contractor, Equal Opportunity Employer
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