Koch Industries

Sr. Software Engineer

Koch Industries$120K — $145K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in software engineering and AI solutions
  • Strong leadership in technical design and large-scale projects
  • Proficient in mentoring engineers through reviews and pair programming
  • Skilled in Python and SQL for application development
  • Experience with AWS for cloud-native solutions
  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and development of AI, data, and software solutions
  • Utilize AI-DLC practices for quality and scalability
  • Work with teams to translate business needs into technical solutions
  • Design generative AI and RAG capabilities using modern standards
  • Make informed technical decisions considering multiple factors
  • Mentor engineering teams through design and coding processes
  • Assess new AI frameworks and models to enhance solutions

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life insurance and disability coverage
  • Retirement plan options
  • Paid vacation and time off
  • Educational assistance
  • Paid parental leave and adoption assistance
Full Job Description
Your Job

Koch Technology Data Solutions (KTDS) is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and support secure, scalable data, software, and AI-enabled solutions. This role combines hands-on engineering with solution architecture, leading complex initiatives and applying AI-DLC practices to deliver reusable solutions that create measurable business value. The ideal candidate is a technically strong engineer who enjoys solving complex problems, shaping solution strategy, and leveraging emerging AI capabilities to accelerate delivery and drive impact.

Location: This role can be located in Wichita, KS / Atlanta, GA / Plano, TX and requires an in-office presence with flexibility.

This role is not eligible for VISA sponsorship

What You Will Do

  • Lead the design and delivery of AI, data, and software solutions across multiple systems, including data pipelines, APIs, applications, agents, automations, and AI-enabled workflows.
  • Apply AI-DLC practices to accelerate development while ensuring solution quality, security, scalability, and operational readiness.
  • Partner with architects, capability leaders, SMEs, and users to translate business needs into supportable technical solutions.
  • Design and operationalize generative AI, agentic AI, semantic layer, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capabilities using modern integration standards such as MCP.
  • Drive sound technical decisions by balancing architecture, delivery timelines, risk, operational support, and long-term maintainability.
  • Mentor engineers through technical leadership, design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on coaching while contributing directly to solution delivery.
  • Continuously evaluate emerging AI models, frameworks, and engineering practices to improve solution outcomes.


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • Demonstrated experience designing, building, deploying, and supporting production software, data, and AI-enabled solutions.
  • Experience leading technical design, architecture, or implementation efforts across large-scale, multi-team initiatives.
  • Experience mentoring engineers through design reviews, code reviews, technical guidance, or pair programming.
  • Demonstrated experience using Python and SQL to develop production applications, including source control, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and orchestration practices.
  • Experience building and supporting cloud-native solutions on AWS, including serverless, event-driven, and containerized applications.
  • Experience communicating technical concepts and solution trade-offs to technical and business stakeholders.


What Will Put You Ahead

  • Experience implementing AI-enabled solutions using graph databases, graph query languages, large language models, embeddings, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and MCP or similar agent integration standards.
  • Experience designing verification systems for AI-assisted and AI-generated output, spanning automated testing, evaluation harnesses, observability, and review gates that hold AI-accelerated delivery to production standards
  • Experience designing and operating distributed, API-driven systems using modular architecture patterns such as microservices, event-driven architecture, and hexagonal architecture, with sound judgment about when each pattern is appropriate
  • Experience applying production engineering and DevSecOps practices, including infrastructure as code, automated security controls, feature flags, secrets management, and progressive deployment strategies such as blue-green, canary, and rolling deployments
  • Experience with Microsoft Fabric (including Fabric IQ), Snowflake, Azure AI Foundry, Databricks or other enterprise data/AI platforms, useful for engineers who may support data solutions across multiple KTDS domains
  • Experience designing and deploying agentic AI for conversational or action-oriented use cases
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.


At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

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About Koch Industries

Koch Industries, Inc. is an American privately-held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing. Koch owns Infor, Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, i360, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. The company is the largest non-Canadian landowner in the Athabasca oil sands. With annual revenues of $110 billion by 2014, the company is the largest privately held company in the United States. In 2007, it was ranked as the largest privately held company. If Koch Industries had been a public company in 2013, it would have ranked 17th in the Fortune 500. The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons. In June 1983, after a bitter legal and boardroom battle, the stakes of Frederick R. Koch and William "Bill" Koch were bought out for $1.1 billion and Charles Koch and David Koch became majority owners in the company. Charles owns 42% of the company; trusts for the benefit of Elaine Tettemer Marshall and Elaine's children, Preston Marshall and E. Pierce Marshall Jr., own 16% of the company. The heirs of David Koch, who died on August 23, 2019, own the balance, 42%, of the corporation.
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