Senior Software Engineer, OpenClaw Agent Platform

About the role

Join Commure to build the core platform for our OpenClaw autonomous agents. This role focuses on the infrastructure and runtime environments that enable our growing fleet of AI agents to operate securely and efficiently at scale. You will combine platform engineering principles with practical AI agent development to deliver a robust foundation for healthcare innovation.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Manage the infrastructure and runtime for Commure's OpenClaw agents.
• Build, configure, deploy, and troubleshoot agents on Linux virtual machines.
• Develop Python services, automation, operational tools, and agent integrations.
• Design and operate agent harnesses for tool use, memory, context, permissions, and error handling.
• Create a standardized platform for engineers to develop, test, and deploy agents safely.
• Deploy and manage agent workloads across Linux VMs, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure (GCP or AWS).
• Use Bash and Linux tools for system investigation, environment management, and production issue resolution.
• Build reliable systems for agent scheduling, background execution, queues, and concurrency.
• Develop integrations for agents to interact with internal services, databases, APIs, and communication platforms.
• Implement secure approaches for secrets, credentials, identity, and access control for autonomous agents.
• Establish evaluation frameworks to measure agent reliability, task completion, and cost.
• Implement production observability for agent traces, prompts, infrastructure, and resource use.
• Create dashboards, alerting, and incident response processes for agent and platform health.
• Diagnose failures across application code, model behavior, third-party tools, and cloud infrastructure.
• Improve platform efficiency and resilience as agent usage and complexity increase.
• Collaborate with product engineers to transition agent prototypes into dependable production systems.
• Define best practices for developing and operating autonomous agents across Commure.

Requirements

• Professional experience building and operating production software, infrastructure, or internal platforms.
• Strong proficiency in Python for agent development, platform tooling, and automation.
• Excellent familiarity with Linux environments and hands-on experience deploying and debugging software on virtual machines.
• Strong Bash and command-line skills, including scripting, process management, and networking diagnostics.
• Experience managing software across fleets of virtual machines, including configuration and monitoring.
• Strong hands-on experience building and operating production systems on Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services.
• Experience deploying and managing Linux virtual machines and containerized workloads in cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and containerized production workloads.
• Experience building infrastructure, deployment systems, or distributed application runtimes.
• Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, configuration management, and automated deployments.
• Hands-on experience building with large language models, autonomous agents, or agent harnesses.
• Understanding of agent concepts such as tool calling, memory, context management, and evaluations.
• Experience monitoring and debugging distributed systems using logs, metrics, and alerts.
• Strong understanding of production reliability, including failure recovery and incident response.
• Ability to balance rapid experimentation with production security and reliability.
• Strong ownership and communication skills, including working with product, infrastructure, and security teams.
• A builder mindset and enthusiasm for creating infrastructure for evolving software categories.

Nice to have

• Experience building, extending, deploying, or operating an OpenClaw agent.
• Contribution to OpenClaw or another open-source agent framework.
• Experience operating a fleet of autonomous or long-running AI agents.
• Experience building multi-tenant agent platforms or internal developer platforms.
• Experience with agent evaluation, tracing, replay, or simulation.
• Experience with browser agents or agents interacting with external systems.
• Familiarity with model gateways, inference providers, prompt versioning, and LLM cost optimization.
• Experience securing workloads accessing sensitive data or high-impact production tools.
• Familiarity with Swift and experience supporting native Apple client applications.
• Experience in healthcare, revenue cycle management, or another regulated industry.

Skills & tools

• Python
• Linux
• Bash
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• CI/CD
• Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Autonomous Agents

Practical notes

All official communication will originate from @commure.com email addresses. Employees must adhere to information security policies, protecting assets and reporting any security risks. These requirements will be attested to upon hire and annually.