# Staff Software Engineer - Developer Experience

**Company:** [FloQast](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/floqast)
**Location:** San Jose, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** GitHub Actions, Terraform, AWS, CI/CD, Infrastructure As Code, Observability, Grafana, CloudWatch, OIDC, Policy As Code
**Posted:** 2026-02-27

> Staff Software Engineer responsible for elevating developer productivity by owning and evolving the organization's CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions) and Terraform-based infrastructure as code. Designs self-service pipelines, sets standards, optimizes SDLC metrics, and mentors engineers on automation, security, and reliability best practices.

## Job Description

## 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.

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