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Datasite

Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Search & Retrieval

Datasite

. Own retrieval for agents working on live deals .

Posted 10/28/2026full-timeUnited StatesLead💰 $170,000 - $297,200 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in building and operating production software with a strong focus on Python, backend services, and large-scale data pipelines. Capable of mentoring engineers and leading complex technical projects while ensuring alignment with product and data science teams.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Python ProgrammingProduction Software DevelopmentLarge-Scale Data PipelinesRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Access Control and Permissions Management

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Hard Skills
Production Software DevelopmentPython ProgrammingBackend ServicesAPIsLarge-Scale Data PipelinesRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)EmbeddingsVector SearchContext ManagementMulti-Tenant Data Management
Soft Skills
Technical JudgmentMentoringCollaboration
Tools & Technologies
Search ToolsDocument Retrieval SystemsData RoomsVector Stores
Industry Keywords
M&A DocumentsDocument ManagementConfidential Document ProcessingHybrid Search

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
Python

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Own retrieval for agents working on live deals
  • Ground answers in the correct documents and data while balancing quality, speed, and cost
  • Scale platform processing for large documents and data tables
  • Shape and evolve agent context for increasingly complex deal workflows
  • Build search tools that agents call, covering indexed and not-yet-indexed content
  • Return trustworthy snippets, citations, and document locations
  • Keep agent context aligned with data-room permissions and user access
  • Determine when models may answer from retrieved context and when product checks are required
  • Mentor engineers and set technical direction for retrieval across teams
  • Partner closely with Product and Data Science while remaining hands-on with technical decisions

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 6+ years of building and operating production software
  • Record of leading complex technical work across teams
  • Strong hands-on Python experience
  • Experience with backend services, APIs, and large-scale data pipelines
  • Experience with production LLM applications that depend on retrieval, including tool calling, RAG, embeddings, vector search, or context management
  • Strong foundations in permissions, multi-tenant data, and access control on what an agent can retrieve
  • Clear product and technical judgment, including balancing answer quality, latency, and cost
  • Nice-to-have: long-running agent workflows that search or read documents
  • Nice-to-have: vector store experience at production scale
  • Nice-to-have: processing large confidential documents and data tables
  • Nice-to-have: hybrid search, citations, and evaluation of retrieval quality
  • Nice-to-have: virtual data rooms, M&A documents, or similar document-heavy work
  • Nice-to-have: tool interfaces that expose search to an agent

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
  • Retirement savings plan
  • Paid time off
  • Other employee benefits
  • Potential eligibility for bonuses, commissions, or overtime if applicable
  • Hybrid work with in-office collaboration on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays