💼 About This Role

You'll lead the team responsible for the runtime and control plane that powers every agent interaction, coordinating model reasoning, tool use, and evaluation in production. You'll own the technical strategy and delivery for Decagon's orchestration engine, ensuring reliable agent behavior across millions of interactions. This is a highly technical player/coach role backed by world-class investors like a16z and Accel.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Build and develop a high-performing engineering team.
• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for the orchestration engine.
• Drive architecture for systems coordinating complex reasoning and action flows.
• Set reliability, testing, and observability standards across the stack.

📋 Requirements

• 2+ years of engineering management experience.
• Strong IC foundation with distributed systems experience.
• Track record of delivering multi-quarter projects through ambiguity.
• Excellent cross-team collaboration skills.

✨ Nice to Have

• Experience with agent frameworks or orchestration systems.
• Experience with evaluation or model quality measurement systems.
• Experience building safety-critical systems.

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 🏖️ Take what you need vacation policy
• 🏥 Medical, Dental, Vision for you and family
• 🍱 Daily lunches and snacks in office
• 👶 Parental Leave and fertility benefits
• 💰 Retirement Plan (e.g., 401K)