# Software Engineer, Developer Tooling

**Company:** [Watershed](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/watershed)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $174k – $230k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** JavaScript, TypeScript, GCP, GitHub Actions, Playwright, Temporal, Terraform, Cli Development, CI/CD, Developer Tooling
**Posted:** 2026-06-05

> Software engineer building developer tooling, AI automation, and test infrastructure to improve productivity and reliability for Watershed engineering teams.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build and improve the tools that make local development delightful at Watershed
- Help establish the tools, patterns, and guardrails that enable teams to adopt AI tooling to accelerate their work responsibly
- Build and iterate on developer-facing AI automation & tools that plug into our codebase and workflows
- Own and evolve our testing experience end-to-end: test frameworks and infrastructure, test reliability and performance, making it easy to add checks and diagnose failures
- Ship improvements that all engineers feel day-to-day

## Requirements
- 3+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience building internal tools, developer platforms, or productivity systems that scale across an engineering org
- Passion for enabling other engineers to move quickly and safely
- Product sense for “internal products”: translate fuzzy pain points into clear problems, ship iteratively, and measure impact
- Comfort working across the stack (CLI/tools, services, CI config, developer workflows) and debugging complex systems
- Familiarity with some portions of our stack: Javascript/Typescript, GCP (or similar cloud providers), GitHub Actions, Playwright, Temporal, Terraform

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with AI development tooling and automation

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