Senior Software Engineer; Python

Senior Software Engineer (Python)

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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 r 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, Matt Klein, Mark Russinovich, William Morgan, Seth Vargo, Adam Gross, Sri Viswanath, Adam Frankl and Roopak Venkatakrishnan.

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, Lang Graph or another. We focus on two tracks:
Dapr Agents and Dapr for Agents. In the AI Engineering team we value open, transparent and direct communication, collaborate and uphold ourselves to high standards, test, document and follow principles for maintainable code, and cherish explorative work with dedicated time to explore domain opportunities.

Your focus 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 CNCF’s 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 bleeding edge, fully remote and in a company full of passionate and skilled people.

• You’ll be contributing, reviewing PRs and expanding documentation 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 to excel at this role.

We’re working towards delivering Dapr Agents into stable release (v1.x) with Kubecon Europe and Kubecon North America milestones.

• 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 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

• Competitive compensation
• Company equity
• Remote first & flexible work environment
• Flexible paid time off
• Comprehensive healthcare for you and your dependents
• Choice of hardware
• $1,000 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.