Staff Software Engineer

About the role

ZenRows provides web data infrastructure for AI and offers an API to render, extract and structure data from websites at scale. This is a Staff Software Engineer role focused on owning a customer-facing product end to end, including system design, testing, and setting technical direction across teams.

What you'll do

• Own a customer-facing product end to end from concept to shipping and impact analysis.
• Design high-load systems that handle millions of requests daily and stay ahead of anti-bot defences.
• Build tests, evaluations, and guardrails to verify agent outputs and trusted work.
• Shape engineering practices and scale processes across teams to standardize workflows with agents.
• Collaborate across the company, including with non-technical stakeholders, to translate problems into shipped solutions.
• Work in an IC capacity with hands-on coding using Go, AWS, Terraform and related tools, while remaining open to new languages.

What they're looking for

• Experience building high-load, complex production systems and setting technical direction.
• Strong product mindset with ability to articulate business impact of technical work.
• Proficiency with AI-native engineering, agents, verification, testing and ownership of outputs.
• Experience shipping products that use LLMs or agents in production is a bonus.
• Excellent written communication and ability to work with non-technical teams to drive outcomes.
• Comfort with ambiguity, ownership, and collaboration across multiple teams.

For applicants in Nigeria

• The listing specifies a remote role within Europe, EMEA; Nigeria is not explicitly excluded, but timezone alignment is noted as EMEA hours. Confirm timezone expectations before interviewing.
• Availability to work EMEA hours is required.
• Contract type and pay currency are not stated; the listing does not specify whether this is contractor or employee or the currency. The listing does not provide a Nigeria-specific pay range.
• The listing does not specify visa or work-authorization requirements for Nigeria.