Artisan · 11 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
6+ years expArtisan is building AI employees, specifically autonomous digital workers that perform real jobs. The Staff Software Engineer will be responsible for developing the backend infrastructure that enables these AI employees, focusing on high-throughput orchestration and platform infrastructure.
Telecom & CommunicationsArtificial Intelligence (AI)SaaSSoftwareInformation TechnologyAgentic AIInternet
Responsibilities
You'll build the backend that makes AI employees possible
High-throughput AI orchestration. Ava processes millions of signals - lead data, email engagement, deliverability metrics, behavioral patterns - to make autonomous decisions. You'll build the services and pipelines that make this fast, reliable, and correct
Platform infrastructure. Artisan replaces an entire sales stack. That means email infrastructure, CRM, lead database, campaign engine, inbox management, and AI coordination - all in one product. You'll own real pieces of this
High ownership, shipping, end to end. Design it, build it, deploy it, monitor it. We don't have separate teams for 'architecture' and 'implementation.' You own the outcome
Moving and iterating very fast. You’ll constantly be shipping. We have a completely flat engineering org, so you won’t run into red tape
Qualification
Required
6+ years of backend experience, ideally at a high-growth startup where you owned systems
A 5x engineer who knows how to leverage Claude Code effectively
You've built and operated data-intensive services at scale - you understand distributed systems, database performance, API design, and what it takes to keep things running
Comfortable with cloud-native infrastructure: containers, orchestration, CI/CD, monitoring. You don't throw code over a wall
Strong opinions on reliability, observability, and testing - but pragmatic about when to move fast
Clear communicator. Can explain a system design to an engineer or a product lead with equal clarity
Preferred
TypeScript/Node preferred. If your background is Python, Go, or similar that's fine if the fundamentals are strong
Benefits
Competitive salary
Meaningful equity
Company
Artisan
At Artisan, we're creating AI Employees, called Artisans, and software which is beautiful, easy to use, and replaces the endless stack of point solutions.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Artisan has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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2025 (2)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$46.1MKey Investors
Alumni Ventures,Glade Brook Capital PartnersOliver JungBayhouse Capital,Oliver Jung
2025-04-09Series A· $25M
2024-09-30Seed· $11.5M
2024-05-13Seed· $7.3M
Leadership Team
Jaspar Carmichael-Jack
Founder & CEO
Sam Stallings
Founder & CPTO
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