Staff Platform Engineer Agentic AI Systems IFS The Loops

Job Description We’re seeking a

Staff Platform Engineer

to help shape the future of

agentic 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 like

Kafka

,

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 like

Kafka

,

Akka (Typed)

,

gRPC . Architect and optimize data pipelines capable of handling

billions of messages/events per day

with low latency and high reliability. Lead efforts in

agentic scaling

– dynamically spawning, routing, and managing autonomous agents (services/functions) in response to workload or demand. Build resilient systems that

self-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: Qualifications 5+ years of experience building

distributed systems

in a high-throughput production environment. Deep expertise with

Kafka

(topics, partitions, consumers, tuning, schema registry, stream processing). Strong experience with

Akka

or other actor-based concurrency models; familiarity with Akka Cluster, Sharding, Persistence, or Typed API. Solid programming skills in

Java

. Understanding of

agentic workloads

and dynamic system orchestration (e.g., microservices that represent intelligent agents). Experience designing

scalable APIs

, message protocols (e.g., Protobuf, Avro), and event-driven architectures. Familiarity with

cloud-native environments

(e.g., Kubernetes, service mesh, container orchestration). Preferred

Qualifications Experience with

serverless compute models

or

function-as-a-service

scaling paradigms. Contributions to open-source projects in the distributed systems ecosystem. Experience with

AI or ML-driven orchestration

or

agentic frameworks . Familiarity with

operational tooling

: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Kafka monitoring tools, etc. Additional Information What We’re Offering Salary Range: $175,000-200,000 total comp Flexible paid time off, including sick and holiday Medical, dental, & vision insurance 401K with Company contribution Flexible spending accounts Life insurance and disability 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: www.ifs.com/about/careers-at-ifs All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. VEVRAA Federal Contractor, Equal Opportunity Employer

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