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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.

405k – 625k/yr
HybridDevOps / SRE

About the role

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

PythonRustGoCI/CDBuild SystemsBazelBuildkiteJenkinsGitHub ActionsNixDockerKubernetesMonorepoRemote Build Execution

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