# Staff Engineer, Agent Productivity

**Company:** [Ambience Healthcare](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/ambience-healthcare)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $250k – $300k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, Rust, Go, Python, Docker, CI/CD, GitHub, Cli Tools, Codegen, Kubernetes
**Posted:** 2026-05-14

> Owns developer productivity infrastructure including dev environments, CI workflows, verification systems, internal tooling, and secure agent tool access to enable efficient engineering and AI agent development. Requires 7+ years experience with strong backend skills in TypeScript, Rust, Go, or Python.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Own

- **Developer Environments** — Own the local dev experience: devboxes, local DBs, Docker workflows, dependencies, secrets, and agent ergonomics.
- **Build, Test, and CI** — Make feedback loops faster and more reliable. Reduce flaky tests, improve CI failure modes, and align local validation with CI.
- **Verification Infrastructure** — Build reusable checks for high-risk workflows: frontend flows, migrations, schema changes, integration paths, API contracts, and structured evidence that lets reviewers trust agent-generated code.
- **Internal Tooling** — Replace bespoke scripts and tribal knowledge with paved-road workflows: CLIs, scaffolds, templates, codegen, migration helpers, and release utilities that make the right workflow the default.
- **Agent Tool Access** — Create scoped, auditable access to local DBs, browsers, GitHub, CI, logs, and docs while keeping PHI and production-data workflows controlled.

## Who You Are

- 7+ years of software engineering experience with Staff-level impact across teams.
- Deep experience building developer productivity, platform, CI, test, or internal tooling systems that engineers adopted.
- Strong backend/platform fundamentals in **TypeScript**, **Rust**, **Go**, **Python**, or similar.
- Daily user of Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or equivalent on real production codebases.
- Clear opinions on where agents help, where they fail, and what infrastructure makes them reliable.
- Sound security judgment — can translate risk into practical controls without freezing progress.
- Willing to work from our San Francisco office 3x/week.

## Pay Transparency

Base compensation range of approximately **$250,000–$300,000** per year, exclusive of equity.

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