Member of Technical Staff
Hands-on technical role building AI-powered tools, infrastructure, and processes to accelerate engineering velocity and product delivery at an AI search company.
Staff Engineer, Agent Productivity
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.
250k – 300kSan Francisco, CADevOps / SREHybrid7+ YOE
About the role
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.
Skills
TypeScriptRustGoPythonDockerCI/CDGitHubCli ToolsCodegenKubernetes
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