Sr. Staff Software Engineer (Agentic AI)
UKG · Seattle, WA
$145,600–$240,695from the description
Jul 15, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor engineering role focused on defining and building enterprise-scale agentic AI systems, primarily on Google's Agent Development Kit alongside other platforms. The work spans architecting multi-agent frameworks, setting safety and governance standards, integrating agents with a large HCM product ecosystem, and influencing technical direction across multiple engineering organizations. Best suited to a seasoned engineer with deep production experience in agentic AI and a track record of cross-organizational technical leadership.
Staff level · 10+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,300 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 790–2,350
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (10)
No specific work location is stated in the posting; the role appears to be remote-eligible based on UKG's general flexibility language, but no explicit 'remote' designation is given — treated as remote given the absence of any location requirement.
The title is 'Sr. Staff Software Engineer', which UKG appears to use as a level above Staff; advertised seniority is mapped to Staff (the closest standard band), and the actual requirements — org-wide technical strategy, cross-divisional influence, 10+ years experience with 3+ years in agentic AI — also support Staff.
Degree requirement is None: the JD explicitly accepts 'equivalent experience' in lieu of a Bachelor's or Master's degree.
The primary programming language requirement lists Python, Java, C#, JavaScript, and TypeScript as alternatives — Python is named first and is the dominant language in the agentic AI space, so it is used as the primary with the others as alternatives.
GCP (Vertex AI, Google ADK), Azure (Azure OpenAI), and AWS (Bedrock) are listed as a group with 'or' — one cloud platform is required; GCP is named first and is the focus of the role (Google ADK is central), so it is the primary with Azure and AWS as alternatives. Vertex AI, Azure OpenAI, and AWS Bedrock are also listed separately as preferred sub-products given the role's deep GCP focus.
Prompt engineering and multi-agent systems are named as required competencies in the qualifications section with firm language ('expert-level understanding', 'proven experience'); no single canonical tool name applies, so they are retained as named skill concepts.
MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers are mentioned in the responsibilities section as part of the platform integration work, not in the qualifications — listed as preferred.
LangChain and LangGraph appear both as alternatives to Google ADK in the required agentic platform skill and again as a separate preferred entry reflecting their distinct use in the stack; the required entry captures the gate, the preferred entry is omitted to avoid duplication — LangChain/LangGraph are captured as alternatives on the Google ADK skill.
Compensation includes base pay plus eligibility for a performance bonus and RSU awards; only the stated base pay range is captured.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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