Staff Backend Engineer, CI/CD
Lead the technical direction and evolution of Fetch’s CI/CD platform, improving build, test, deployment, and developer workflows at scale. The role requires 8+ years of software engineering experience, Staff-level cross-team leadership, and strong expertise in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, automation, and software delivery systems.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction for CI/CD systems and software delivery infrastructure.
- Own a multi-quarter CI/CD roadmap aligned with organizational priorities, cost tradeoffs, and engineering strategy.
- Design, build, and evolve scalable CI pipelines, deployment systems, and developer automation.
- Improve developer feedback on build failures, test results, quality signals, and deployment health.
- Identify and eliminate bottlenecks across build, test, merge, deployment, and release workflows.
- Improve CI performance through caching, parallelization, workload optimization, infrastructure improvements, and strategic test execution.
- Design quality gates and automated safeguards that preserve reliability while enabling rapid delivery.
- Build standardized software delivery platform capabilities while maintaining team autonomy.
- Partner with infrastructure, SRE, security, backend, frontend, and mobile engineering teams.
- Establish CI/CD observability and metrics, including feedback time, pipeline reliability, infrastructure utilization, and deployment performance.
- Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions and introduce technologies that materially improve delivery systems.
- Lead complex cross-team initiatives from problem definition through adoption.
- Drive adoption through documentation, technical guidance, training, and hands-on collaboration.
- Mentor senior and staff engineers and establish practices that raise the technical bar.
- Explore AI and agentic workflows for build, test, review, deployment, and operations.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience with CI/CD, developer infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or related systems.
- Demonstrated Staff-level technical leadership across multiple engineering teams.
- Track record of mentoring engineers and establishing effective technical standards and practices.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals across application and infrastructure boundaries.
- Experience designing and operating modern CI/CD systems at meaningful scale.
- Strong understanding of build systems, testing infrastructure, deployment strategies, artifact management, and release automation.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and modern DevOps practices.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automated provisioning.
- Strong understanding of containers and orchestration technologies.
- Experience diagnosing performance, scalability, and reliability issues in distributed build or deployment systems.
- Ability to assess software delivery tradeoffs involving speed, cost, reliability, developer experience, and operational complexity.
- Ability to write production-quality software and automation.
- Strong communication and cross-team technical influence without direct authority.
- High ownership, agency, and comfort navigating ambiguity.
- Developer-focused mindset and interest in understanding engineering workflows.
Skills
CI/CD, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, Infrastructure As Code, Docker, Kubernetes, Build Systems, Test Automation, Artifact Management, Release Automation, Observability, Deployment Strategies, Software Automation
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