# Staff Software Engineer - Agentic First at Sonatype

- Company: Sonatype
- What the company does: Sonatype provides intelligence & automated governance to help you build faster & safer with open source and AI. From the creators of Nexus Repository. Backed by Accel and NEA.
- Company website: http://www.sonatype.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Atlanta, GA - Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-04-27
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/sonatype/ffebffdc-776a-4c8f-8106-7a8e8331c02d
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/sonatype-staff-software-engineer-agentic-first/

## About the role

As an agentic-first Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the design and delivery of enterprise-grade, agentic-first capabilities within Nexus Repository Manager. You'll set technical direction for a major product area, orchestrate fleets of agents across parallel workstreams as your primary mode of work, and define the agentic engineering practices that other teams will learn from.

## What they're looking for

- You reside in the Atlanta area and are flexible for future hybrid work
- Product Engineering Mindset: Half product, half engineering. You make product decisions independently and drive scope, trade-offs, and sequencing without constant PM hand-holding
- F ocused on What Matters: You want to build mission-critical products that drive revenue and transform how customers build software
- Staff-level Engineering Skills: 7+ years of professional software development, with a track record of leading multi-quarter technical initiatives that span multiple teams or services
- Deep Technical Foundation: Strong experience with Java, Cloud (AWS / Azure / GCP), and large-scale distributed systems — including performance tuning, data-intensive services, and production operability at scale
- Deeply Curious: You push agentic tools to their limits — probing where they work, where they break, and how to make them better. You're energized by being early in a fundamentally new way of building software

Tags: Engineering - Nexus