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# Staff Software Engineer, Platform at Gradial

- **Company:** Gradial
- **Location:** Seattle, WA
- **Posted:** 2026-10-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gradial/jobs/4443881009

## Job description

Gradial is building the AI-native system of work for enterprise marketing. Our agents turn ideas into live campaigns by executing across the tools, teams, and workflows enterprises already use—from content authoring and campaign assembly to quality assurance and brand compliance. We give marketers and creatives more time to shape brands, understand customers, and create work that moves people.

We’re tackling some of the hardest problems in applied AI: building agent harnesses, sandboxed execution environments, and orchestration that enable agents to plan, act, and verify their work reliably at enterprise scale. We’re growing rapidly, winning Fortune 500 and enterprise customers including AWS, T-Mobile, and Prudential. Our $65 million Series C led by Insight Partners is accelerating that momentum.

Join us to help define how people and AI agents work together. We move with urgency, reason from first principles, and take ownership from idea to customer impact. You’ll shape the product, own consequential problems, and build systems that some of the world’s leading brands depend on every day.

## The Role

Gradial is looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Platform to serve as a technical leader for the systems and infrastructure our product runs on. You’ll set direction for the platform, lead critical infrastructure initiatives and build the foundations that allow our engineering team to ship quickly and operate reliably as Gradial scales.

This is a highly hands-on IC role with significant technical leadership responsibility. You’ll work closely with the CTO and engineering team to identify the highest-leverage platform investments, make key architectural decisions and lead their execution. You’ll help define what great platform engineering looks like at Gradial while building systems that make every engineer more effective.

## What You’ll Own

- Lead the technical direction of Gradial’s platform across infrastructure, reliability, developer experience, security, performance and cost
- Own the reliability, scalability and operational health of our production platform
- Lead major platform initiatives from problem definition and architecture through hands-on implementation and production
- Evolve our Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability and infrastructure as code foundations as the product and engineering organization scale
- Build tooling, abstractions and automation that make it easier for engineers to develop, deploy and operate production systems
- Set engineering standards for reliability, service readiness, deployment and operational ownership across the organization
- Drive improvements in monitoring, alerting, incident response and observability while turning operational learnings into durable platform improvements
- Partner with engineers across the company to identify infrastructure bottlenecks and scaling risks, then prioritize and lead solutions before they become constraints
- Provide technical leadership to other engineers through architecture, design reviews, mentorship and hands-on collaboration

## What We Need

- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with significant experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, SRE, DevOps or related areas
- Proven ability to serve as a technical lead for complex platform initiatives while remaining deeply hands-on in implementation
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes, cloud-native architecture, container orchestration and production infrastructure
- Strong experience with infrastructure as code, GitOps, CI/CD workflows and modern deployment practices
- Strong command of observability and reliability fundamentals across metrics, logging, tracing, alerting and incident response
- Experience designing and operating production infrastructure for rapidly growing products and engineering teams
- Ability to identify the highest-leverage platform problems, establish technical direction and drive execution across multiple engineers
- Strong technical judgment with a track record of making pragmatic architectural decisions around reliability, scalability, performance and cost
- Ability to lead through influence, create alignment and raise the technical bar without relying on formal authority

## Nice to Have

- Experience with AI or ML infrastructure, including GPU provisioning, model deployment or compute-intensive workloads
- Experience supporting cloud or multi-cloud environments with demanding reliability and scaling requirements
- Proficiency with TypeScript or Python for internal tooling and operational automation

The salary range for this position is $200,000 – $240,000 annually. Final compensation will be determined based on factors such as experience, skills, and qualifications.

## What we offer

- Performance-based annual bonus
- Meaningful equity awards
- Medical, dental & vision (fully covered for employees with 75% for dependents)
- Fertility & family-planning support
- 401k plan
- Unlimited PTO
- A beautiful Seattle office with a gym, sauna, and bike parking
- Free lunch three days a week in our HQ
- A front-row seat to building category-defining AI infrastructure

You'll thrive here if you

- Learn quickly, actively seek out new challenges, and regularly reconsider “how it’s always been done.”
- Want to have real impact with zero bureaucracy.
- Have an innate drive for being 1% better than the day before, building towards greatness.
- Embrace AI as a core tool for problem-solving, innovation, and scale.
- Show customer-obsession (internal or external), high ownership/accountability, and bias for action.
- Communicate clearly, directly, with curiosity, and assuming good intentions.
- Thrive in fast-paced, hyper-growth environments where building better > maintaining status quo.

AI Literacy & Interviewing Tools

As an AI-first company, we prioritize AI literacy as a core competency in our hiring decisions. We’re excited by candidates who thoughtfully apply AI tools in their work, but during interviews we’re focused on you. This is your opportunity to show how you think, communicate, and solve problems. Over-reliance on AI-generated responses during the interview process (especially when it obscures your own voice) will result in disqualification. We want to understand your unique perspective and how you approach challenges, both with and without AI.

Gradial is dedicated to creating an environment where diverse perspectives are valued and all team members can grow. We offer competitive compensation, equity, flexible work hours, comprehensive benefits, and a collaborative culture focused on learning and impact.

## About Gradial

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Gradial provides an agentic marketing operations platform that automates campaign execution, content assembly, and brand governance for large enterprises.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, last funding $65M)
- **Headquarters**: Seattle, Washington, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise marketing technology (MarTech)
- **Target customers**: Large enterprises (B2B, B2C) – examples include T-Mobile, AWS, Prudential, Avalara
- **Mission/purpose**: “Enable marketing at the speed of thought” – turning fragmented marketing execution into a governed operating system so enterprise teams can move from strategy to live work with speed, visibility, and control.

## Products & Services
- **Gradial Platform**: An agentic operating system for marketing operations. Agents handle authoring, QA, tagging, assembly, and execution of campaigns (landing pages, PDPs, emails, etc.). Includes built-in brand compliance, accessibility checks, and governance. Supports personalization at scale and optimization.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Latest funding round – $65M Series C (raised in 2026). Prior total funding reported as $53.4M (likely including earlier rounds).
- **Notable Investors**: Madrona Venture Group, PruVen Capital, VMG Partners, Insight Partners, General Advance, and six others.
- **Growth Signals**: Strong enterprise customer logos (T-Mobile, AWS, Prudential, Avalara); 24 open job postings across Engineering, Product, Revenue, and Delivery teams; named a leader in a competitive landscape including Braze, Zeta Global, and Jasper.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Agentic execution layer** that automates high-volume, high-risk marketing work without requiring a full stack rebuild.
- **Governance-first design** – brand compliance and accessibility checks run automatically on every execution.
- **Trusted by top-tier enterprises** – AWS uses it as a “control tower”; T-Mobile modernized campaign launches; Prudential enables personalization at scale.
- **Speed and scalability** – teams increase throughput without adding headcount.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale adoption among large enterprises by deepening integrations and expanding agent capabilities for performance marketing, content updates, and asset management.
- Continue building the “system of work” that makes marketing execution faster, cleaner, and more governable.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture values**: Pragmatic AI, care for craft (quality and intentionality), end-to-end ownership, clarity under pressure, execution first, and systems that compound.
- **Work model**: Hybrid (Seattle office at 2505 2nd Avenue) and remote roles available across the US. Many engineering roles are Seattle-based; some Forward Deployed and Sales roles are remote.
- **Engineering culture**: Building “frontier systems for enterprise execution” – emphasis on product craft, applied AI, and solving complex workflow problems at scale.
- **Team structure**: Small-but-growing company – 24 open roles span Applied AI, Platform, Infrastructure, Forward Deployed, and Product Design. Opportunity for high ownership and impact.
- **Notable perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the focus on “clarity under pressure” and “compounding systems” suggests a structured, high-autonomy environment.

## Sources
1. [Gradial Website](https://www.gradial.com/)
2. [Gradial About Page](https://www.gradial.com/about)
3. [CBInsights Company Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/gradial)
4. [Gradial Greenhouse Job Board](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gradial/jobs/4260900009)

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