Software Engineer, Open Source
CrewAI is an enterprise agent build-and-runtime platform, with an open-source framework for building multi-agent systems and commercial controls for deployment, governance, and observability.
About CrewAI
CrewAI provides tools to design agents, orchestrate crews, automate flows, and operate production agentic workflows. Its current enterprise platform offers a centrally governed control plane, while its open-source offering provides the underlying multi-agent framework.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will serve as a core maintainer of the open-source framework, developing the Crews and Flows APIs used by a large developer community. You will design and maintain framework capabilities, review community contributions, document API decisions, uphold Python engineering quality, and turn community feedback into roadmap input.
Requirements
- 7+ years of Python engineering experience
- Experience shipping and maintaining library or framework code
- API design and developer-experience expertise
- Open-source project contribution or maintenance experience
- Experience reviewing external pull requests, managing issue backlogs, and communicating decisions publicly
- Familiarity with uv, pytest, type hints, pre-commit, and well-tested code
- Working knowledge of LLMs and agent concepts, or ability to learn quickly
- Existing authorization to work in the United States
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain core framework capabilities for agent orchestration, Flows, task execution, tools, memory, MCP, A2A, and public APIs
- Own the contributor experience by triaging and reviewing community pull requests and issues and mentoring contributors
- Document API and developer-experience decisions with backward compatibility and migration paths in mind
- Maintain clean, well-tested Python code, strong typing, and green CI
- Write and improve documentation, examples, and guides
- Partner with runtime and platform engineers on framework versioning and OSS-to-enterprise compatibility
- Engage with the community through GitHub Discussions, forums, Discord, and other channels