Staff Software Engineer - Developer Experience

What You’ll Do

CI/CD Strategy & Platform Ownership

• Define and execute the long-term strategy for CI/CD across the organization, with primary ownership of our GitHub Actions ecosystem.
• Architect reusable workflow templates, composite actions, and standardized deployment pipelines.
• Establish guardrails for secure, compliant, and scalable build and release processes.
• Drive pipeline performance optimization (build times, caching strategies, parallelization, artifact management).

Infrastructure as Code & Self-Service Enablement

• Lead the design and evolution of infrastructure modules and patterns built in Terraform.
• Create opinionated, reusable Terraform modules that abstract complexity and enforce best practices.
• Partner with security to embed policy-as-code and compliance automation into infrastructure workflows.
• Enable self-service infrastructure provisioning through standardized pipelines.

SDLC Optimization & Engineering Productivity

• Instrument the software development lifecycle and use data to drive improvements in deployment frequency, lead time, failure rates, and recovery time.
• Introduce automation that eliminates repetitive developer tasks.
• Improve local-to-cloud parity and streamline branch-to-production workflows.
• Champion trunk-based development, release automation, and progressive delivery practices.

Platform Governance & Cross-Team Leadership

• Set CI/CD and infrastructure standards across multiple product lines.
• Lead multi-team initiatives such as pipeline migrations, CI/CD consolidation, and IaC modernization efforts.
• Publish internal documentation, reference architectures, diagrams, and enablement materials.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to engineering leadership on delivery velocity, platform scalability, and developer productivity.

Reliability & Operational Enablement

• Embed observability, testing, and rollback strategies directly into pipelines.
• Ensure deployments are resilient, repeatable, and auditable.
• Participate in post-incident reviews with a focus on systemic improvements to tooling and delivery processes.

Mentorship & Technical Advocacy

• Mentor senior engineers and DevOps practitioners in CI/CD architecture and infrastructure as code.
• Advocate for an automation-first, developer-first culture.
• Raise the technical bar for pipeline design, testing standards, and release engineering practices.

What You’ll Bring

• 8–10+ years of experience spanning software engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or developer productivity.
• Deep hands-on expertise with CI/CD systems, especially GitHub Actions (enterprise-scale implementation preferred).
• Strong experience building scalable infrastructure using Terraform (modules, workspaces, state management, policy integration).
• Strong experience working within the AWS ecosystem (e.g., VPC, ECS, EC2, S3, IAM, Lambda, CloudWatch).
• Experience designing secure, scalable pipeline architectures (artifact management, secrets handling, OIDC, ephemeral environments).
• Proven track record of improving engineering productivity through automation and tooling.
• Experience embedding observability and quality gates into CI/CD workflows.
• AI-first thinking applied to pipeline optimization, incident analysis, and developer feedback loops.
• Strong experience with monitoring, metrics, and visualization tools (e.g CloudWatch, Grafana).
• Experience influencing technical direction across multiple teams or domains.