Senior/Staff Software Engineer (Platform and Execution Model)
Venture studio that launches, operates, and scales technology companies across healthcare, cyber, and national security.
About Red Cell Partners
Red Cell Partners is an active McLean, Virginia-based venture studio founded in 2020. It creates, incubates, operates, and scales mission-critical technology companies across healthcare, cyber, and national security, with both incubation and investment activities.
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About the Role
You will build and own critical parts of Trase OS, the shared platform for regulated environments. You will design the execution model including state machine, lifecycle and failure semantics, build distributed systems that behave predictably under failure, develop platform APIs and SDKs, ensure correctness via idempotency and deterministic replays, and build security, governance and observability into the core. You will also mentor engineers.
Requirements
- 8+ years building distributed/platform systems
- 4+ years owning mission-critical runtimes or orchestration systems
- Deep expertise with durable execution
- Security and governance experience in production systems
- Observability experience such as Grafana
- Strong systems design across storage, queues and schedulers
- Excellence in Go, Rust, Java or TypeScript and cloud-native stacks
- Comfortable in regulated or high-assurance environments
- Strong technical judgment
- Ability to incorporate LLM capabilities into system design
Responsibilities
- Design, build and own core execution model components
- Build reliable distributed systems across retries, restarts and partial failures
- Develop platform APIs/SDKs and drive versioning and compatibility
- Guarantee correctness via idempotency, deterministic replays and compensating actions
- Engineer reliability at scale with concurrency controls, rate limits, backpressure and sharding
- Build security and governance including RBAC/ABAC, policy enforcement and audit
- Deliver observability with tracing, logs and metrics
- Own quality through design reviews, testing, SLOs, incident response and postmortems
- Mentor engineers and establish engineering patterns
Benefits
- 100% employer paid health care including medical, dental and vision for you and your family
- Paid maternity and paternity leave for 14 weeks
- Unlimited PTO with management approval
- Optional 401K, FSA and equity incentives
- Mental health benefits through Tara Mind
- GLP-1 solutions through Crux
