--- title: 'Sr. Software Engineer - Workflows at Standard Template Labs' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/sr-software-engineer-workflows-standard-template-labs-new-york-eqrjtx2nggph' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-05' --- # Sr. Software Engineer - Workflows at Standard Template Labs - **Company:** Standard Template Labs - **Location:** New York, NY - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-07-22 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/st-labs/87bb0c0e-e8f6-44ae-acf0-df83851d7292 ## Job description ## ABOUT STLABS Standard Template Labs is building the next generation of IT Service Management. Our AI-native platform combines graph technology, intelligent workflows, and modern software architecture to help enterprises automate complex operational work. We're rethinking how work gets done—replacing manual processes with intelligent, scalable automation. ## ABOUT THE ROLE We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Workflows team. You'll build the platform that powers workflow automation across our product—from employee onboarding and access requests to incident response, approvals, and infrastructure operations. Working closely with Product and Design, you'll help create a flexible workflow engine that enables customers to automate complex business processes while integrating AI where it adds meaningful value. This is a highly collaborative, hands-on backend engineering role with significant ownership and technical influence. ## WHAT YOU'LL DO - Design and build scalable backend services that power workflow execution and orchestration. - Develop reusable workflow components and APIs used across the platform. - Build reliable, event-driven systems that coordinate long-running business processes. - Partner with Product and Design to deliver intuitive workflow experiences. - Help define engineering best practices around scalability, reliability, and observability. ## WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - 5+ years of professional software engineering experience. - Strong backend development skills in Go, Python, Java, or a similar language. - Experience designing distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-native applications. - Strong understanding of asynchronous processing and event-driven architectures. - Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative startup environment. ## NICE TO HAVE Experience with technologies such as: - Workflow orchestration platforms (Temporal, Cadence, Camunda, Argo, Airflow, Dagster, or similar) - Kubernetes and AWS - PostgreSQL, Kafka, or Redis - AI/LLM applications or agentic systems - Enterprise automation or integration platforms WHY STLABS? You'll join a small, experienced engineering team building one of the core pillars of our product. You'll have meaningful ownership, work on technically challenging problems, and help shape how enterprises automate work in an AI-first world. ## Why You’ll Love This Role - Build core systems for an AI-native enterprise platform—where AI isn’t an add-on, it’s the foundation. - Work in a team that uses AI as a development accelerator—pairing human expertise with machine intelligence to move fast and build better. - Help define modern best practices for AI-augmented software engineering. - Join a focused, collaborative team in Midtown Manhattan—moving quickly, experimenting boldly, and building together. ## What We Offer - Build foundational product features for an AI-first enterprise platform - The opportunity to take ownership of critical systems that scale to millions of users - A culture that values craftsmanship, autonomy, and technical excellence - Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits package - Work from our Flatiron District, Manhattan office, where you’ll be side-by-side with the founding team in a supportive, collaborative setting. Our team works on-site five days a week, growing and building together, and the location is easy to reach with plenty of public transportation options. As an equal opportunity employer, we don’t tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. Whether that’s based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws. The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at is: $160,000—$250,000 USD. ## About Standard Template Labs ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Enterprise IT Service Management (ITSM), AI-powered operations - **Target customers**: B2B – IT operations, HR/people ops, engineering teams at mid-market and enterprise organizations - **Mission or purpose**: Reinvent IT service management from the ground up – modern, efficient, and built for the way companies work today, without legacy baggage. ## Products & Services - **Self-Service**: AI agents that resolve employee requests (password resets, access requests, device issues) through natural conversation, enforcing policy and provisioning automatically. - **Operator Intelligence**: Enriches incoming tickets with live context, clusters them by root cause, and suggests automations so one fix resolves hundreds of incidents. - **Axiom™**: A real-time, self-maintaining graph of every person, device, app, and infrastructure relationship. Enables impact analysis, blast radius mapping, and dependency tracing without manual CMDB. - **Workflow Engine**: AI generates auditable, version-controlled code for workflows; deterministic execution with human-in-the-loop escalation and policy guardrails. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available - **Key Metric**: Total Funding – not disclosed; backed by prominent investors (see below) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Board Director **Matt Jacobson** (General Partner at ICONIQ Capital, board member of Datadog, GitLab, etc.); other investors include Murat Bicer (likely from ICONIQ). Partners: 100+ integrations with identity providers, ticketing systems, cloud infrastructure, and communication tools. - **Growth Signals**: Founded in 2025, already 25 total employees (15 product+tech), 16 open roles as of mid-2025. In-office 5 days a week in Midtown Manhattan, indicating rapid team scaling. ## Competitive Advantages - **AI-native architecture** – built from scratch for the AI era, not bolted onto legacy systems. - **Live graph (Axiom)** – reasons over real-time relationships, not stale snapshots, enabling accurate root cause and impact analysis. - **Deterministic execution** – every action is auditable, versioned, and reproducible; no black-box magic. - **Self-maintaining** – integrations adapt when APIs change; no manual CMDB. - **Policy guardrails** – natural language policies that AI interprets directly, ensuring compliance. ## Strategic Focus - **Current priorities**: Building the platform modules (self-service, operator intelligence, Axiom) and expanding integration ecosystem. Hiring aggressively across engineering, product, and operations to accelerate product development and go-to-market. - **Direction for growth**: Displacing legacy ITSM tools (ServiceNow, etc.) with a modern, AI-driven alternative that reduces ticket volume and automates complex workflows. ## Why Work Here - **Culture highlights**: High ownership, low process – ship meaningful work every week. Technical depth (graph databases, LLM orchestration, self-healing integrations). Real impact on a massive, broken market. - **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: On-site only – work from Midtown Manhattan office alongside the founding team, five days a week. Collaborative, focused environment. - **Notable perks**: Offers company equity; Unlimited PTO policy; healthcare benefits. Early-stage startup with strong backing – opportunity to grow with the company. ## Sources 1. [stlabs.com](https://stlabs.com) 2. [stlabs.com/about](https://stlabs.com/about) 3. [stlabs.com/careers](https://stlabs.com/careers) 4. [builtin.com/company/standard-template-labs-0](https://builtin.com/company/standard-template-labs-0) 5. 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