Staff Infrastructure Software Engineer - AI Platform

Who We Are

Addepar is a global data and AI platform empowering investment professionals to turn complex financial information into actionable intelligence. Addepar unifies portfolio, market and client data in a total portfolio view and delivers AI-powered insights within investment and client workflows. More than 1,400 firms in nearly 60 countries use Addepar to manage and advise on nearly $9 trillion in assets. Its open platform integrates with nearly 650 software, data and consulting partners to power end-to-end investment operations across firms of all sizes and complexity. Addepar supports clients worldwide with offices in New York City, Salt Lake City, London, Edinburgh, Pune, Dubai, Geneva and São Paulo. 

The Role

We are currently seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the AI Platform team to drive the design, architecture, and production posture of Addepar’s AI Platform and our products and solutions. This team is at the center of Addepar's mission to integrate AI across our product suite and is growing quickly.

This role focuses on building a scalable platform and infrastructure to power deep, rich AI capabilities and products. As the AI platform expands, you will be a central architect of the "Core Platform" layer – building the managed services, serving infrastructure, observability, and cross-platform integrations that turn experimental AI capabilities into scalable production software. This includes productionizing the cutting edge of the latest AI developments like agents, MCP, computer use, etc; alongside designing and automating the operational backbone of Addepar's AI stack. 

The ideal candidate will play a staff, leading role in defining, implementing, and strategically evolving Addepar’s AI Production infrastructure and the products it delivers. This includes designing, deploying, monitoring, automating, and optimizing all operational aspects of Addepar's AI platform with a focus on reliability, scalability, and efficiency.

Addepar takes a market-based approach to pay. A successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on the role, job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target base salary for roles in Canada.

The current range for this role is $155,000 - $198,000 (base salary) + bonus + equity + benefits. 

Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range during the hiring process. Additionally, these ranges reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.

Applicants must have legal authorization to work in the country where this role is based on the first day of employment. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. Applicants must be based in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, or Ontario

What You’ll Do
- Design and build the production runtime for LLM-based agents and products, creating the services and infrastructure that serve autonomous agents.
- Develop deep application-level knowledge to proactively inform and influence requirements, constraints and best practices for implementing composable, complex AI systems.
- Lead the design, implementation, and automation of production infrastructure on a variety of cloud environments (Kubernetes/Databricks), to enable us to ship and scale AI features instantly.
- Evangelize and promote disciplined, best engineering practices to enforce strong production hygiene and culture.
- Initiate and lead collaborations with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve complex application or infrastructure issues, serving as a technical subject matter expert.
- Architect, build, and maintain advanced, automated CI/CD pipelines e.g. using Jenkins, ArgoCD, AWS CodeBuild/Pipeline, GitHub Actions, or similar, establishing best practices for deployment strategies (e.g., blue/green, canary).
- Develop systems and best practices monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting of our probabilistic and AI-driven systems and broader software stack.
Who You Are
- Extensive experience as a Software/Backend Engineer, with a track record of taking on increasing responsibility.
- Experience across the full product lifecycle: designing, implementing, shipping, scaling, operationalizing, and maintaining technology/SaaS products.
- Exceptional Programming skills and fundamentals in Python/Go/Java, with a proven track record of building large scale production systems. 
- Proficient experience with diverse compute environments including microservices (K8s), Databricks and serverless architectures (e.g. AWS Lambda).
- Demonstrable experience leading initiatives with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform in complex, multi-account environments.
- Proficient experience with comprehensive monitoring and alerting stacks (e.g. Prometheus/Grafana/Sentry/cloud-native tools), with a focus on observability strategy.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to effectively collaborate with multi-functional teams, articulate complex technical concepts, and influence outcomes.

- Bonus points/Nice to haves: 
- Extensive experience with Databricks (Unity Catalog, Model Serving, Jobs).
- Demonstrable experience writing and contributing to significant systems automation tooling or open-source projects is a strong plus.
- Specific experience with LLMs and agentic systems and associated technologies such as Langchain, Vector DBs, or MLFlow.
- Exposure to industry practices in financial services or other highly regulated data environments is a plus.

Our Values 

- Act Like an Owner - Think and operate with intention, purpose and care. Own outcomes.
- Build Together - Collaborate to unlock the best solutions. Deliver lasting value. 
- Champion Our Clients - Exceed client expectations. Our clients’ success is our success. 
- Drive Innovation - Be bold and unconstrained in problem solving. Transform the industry. 
- Embrace Learning - Engage our community to broaden our perspective. Bring a growth mindset. 

In addition to our core values, Addepar is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We seek to bring together diverse ideas, experiences, skill sets, perspectives, backgrounds and identities to drive innovative solutions. We commit to promoting a welcoming environment where inclusion and belonging are held as a shared responsibility.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

PHISHING SCAM WARNING: Addepar is among several companies recently made aware of a phishing scam involving con artists posing as hiring managers recruiting via email, text and social media. The imposters are creating misleading email accounts, conducting remote “interviews,” and making fake job offers in order to collect personal and financial information from unsuspecting individuals. Please be aware that no job offers will be made from Addepar without a formal interview process. Additionally, Addepar will not ask you to purchase equipment or supplies as part of your onboarding process. If you have any questions, please reach out to ta-operations@addepar.com.