Software Engineer, Dev Velocity
Build internal developer platform, tooling, and automation to accelerate engineering velocity. Focus on CI/CD pipelines, test infrastructure, build systems, and metrics to help engineers ship faster and more reliably.
About the job
What You'll Do
- Improve speed and reliability of early change feedback
- Invest in build and dependency tooling, caching, incremental builds, and monorepo ergonomics
- Accelerate CI/CD pipelines - cutting build, test, and deploy times while keeping the path to production safe and reversible
- Make test suites fast and trustworthy: parallelization, smart test selection, flaky-test detection, and better local/preview environments
- Design and build tools to support concurrent agent execution
- Make test feedback fast enough to live inside an agent's loop
- Get agents the right context (codebase conventions, service ownership, recent changes, environment state)
- Simplify and establish repeatable patterns
- Reduce toil through automation, paving over repetitive workflows and manual steps
- Instrument the engineering org with meaningful signals (deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, time to restore)
- Build and participate in an on-call rotation
What We're Looking For
- Experience building and operating developer-facing tooling, CI/CD systems, or internal platforms that other engineers depend on every day
- Experience driving cultural and process changes to make engineering teams more effective
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and a track record of shipping, maintaining, and debugging production systems
- Proficiency in Go (or a strong willingness to ramp quickly)
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes or similar container orchestration
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform)
- A bias toward measurement: instrument what you build and let data tell you whether you actually made things faster
- Empathy with engineers, fixing developer pain points in an elegant and sustainable manner
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience improving build systems, test infrastructure, or developer experience at meaningful scale (Bazel, Concourse, GitHub workflows)
- Familiarity with observability tools like Datadog, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
- Comfort working close to the metal - Linux, containers, kubernetes
- Security-minded instincts, especially around supply chain and the path from commit to deploy
- Understanding of where to use AI as an accelerant, and where human context must come first
Benefits
- 4 weeks of paid vacation
- 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave
- Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans
- 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage
- FSAs and HSAs available
- Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies
- Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy
- Commuter benefits for Bay Area, home office stipends for remote
- Continuous learning benefits & related support
Skills
Go, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, Bazel, Concourse, GitHub Actions, Datadog, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
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