Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Productivity
Leads technical strategy and builds scalable developer infrastructure including build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and tooling for large monorepo environments. Requires 3+ years leading complex projects, proficiency in Python/Rust/Go, and experience with container orchestration.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own the technical strategy and roadmap for your area, translating team-level goals into concrete execution plans
- Define infrastructure architecture, ensuring the hardest problems get solved — whether by you directly or by working through others
- Design and build scalable, reliable distributed infrastructure and shared libraries that support high-volume workloads across all engineering teams
- Own and evolve build environments, package management, and dependency systems to enable fast, reproducible builds
- Define and implement language ecosystem standards, tooling, and frameworks that drive developer productivity across research and production workloads
Requirements
- 3+ years (not including internships or co-ops) of experience leading large scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead
- Deep experience with build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and/or developer tooling in a large monorepo environment
- Strong proficiency in Python, Rust and/or Go
- Obsessed with developer productivity and reducing friction in the software development lifecycle
- Experience with container orchestration and infrastructure at scale
- Excellent communication skills and enjoy supporting internal partners to improve their development experience
- Excited about designing foundational systems and comfortable working independently on ambiguous, high-impact technical challenges
Nice-to-Haves
- 15+ years (not including internships or co-ops) of experience in a Software Engineer role, building and operating large-scale developer infrastructure
- Experience with CI orchestration tools (Buildkite, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar) and merge queue management at scale
- Experience building or operating remote build execution systems (Bazel Remote Execution API, BuildBarn, BuildBuddy, or similar)
- Experience with Nix/NixOS/Docker and managing large image / package sets at scale
- Experience building CLI tools, developer-facing services, and GitHub API and automation workflows
Skills
Python, Rust, Go, CI/CD, Build Systems, Bazel, Buildkite, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Nix, Docker, Kubernetes, Monorepo, Remote Build Execution
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