Staff Software Engineer - Developer Productivity
Leads cross-team initiatives that improve developer productivity through internal platforms, self-service tooling, cloud automation, observability, and AI-assisted workflows. The role requires strong Python or Go experience, cloud-platform expertise, and a record of delivering ambiguous technical projects.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end projects that improve developer tooling, environments, and operational workflows for speed, reliability, and safety.
- Design and operate internal tooling and services in Python and/or Go.
- Build tooling for the internal developer platform, including self-service workflows, shared patterns, and developer-facing interfaces.
- Enable developer workflows across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
- Develop AI-based workflows that improve developer experience and reduce repetitive manual work, including infrastructure-operations efficiency.
- Improve developer feedback loops through observability using metrics, logs, and traces.
- Design, build, and document paved paths and self-service capabilities.
- Improve reliability through automation and observability, and drive incident follow-ups to reduce recurrence.
- Set technical direction through design documents, tradeoff analysis, and sequencing; drive delivery across stakeholders.
- Mentor engineers through design and code reviews.
Requirements
- Strong experience building and operating production services in Python and/or Go.
- Experience with at least one cloud provider—AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud—and core primitives such as IAM, networking, and compute.
- Experience building developer productivity tooling, including CI systems, build tooling, developer portals, or workflow automation.
- Track record leading ambiguous, cross-team technical projects to completion.
- Strong communication and engineering judgment.
Nice to Have
- Kubernetes or platform-abstraction experience.
- Infrastructure as code with Terraform or OpenTofu, including reusable modules, safe state practices, and modernization of shared platform foundations.
- Experience building internal developer platforms, developer portals, or self-service tooling.
Perks and Benefits
- Employer-paid medical insurance.
- Paid time off, paid sick time, inclusive parental leave, holidays, and volunteer days.
- RSU stock grants.
- Professional development and training opportunities.
- Virtual happy hours, free food, and team-building activities.
- Monthly cell phone stipend.
- Mental health support platform with therapy, coaching, and mindfulness resources.
Skills
Python, Go, AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, IAM, Kubernetes, Terraform, Opentofu, CI/CD, Developer Portals, Observability, Infrastructure Automation, Networking, Compute
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