Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Oversee and implement extensive modifications to the codebase, such as framework upgrades, language transitions, and dependency updates, ensuring minimal impact on product teams.

• Design and enhance agentic loops for AI agents to conduct engineering tasks safely and reliably.

• Diagnose and address root causes of developer workflow issues, including slow builds, unreliable tests, and unclear abstractions.

• Enhance build tools and continuous integration performance, working with Bazel or a similar build system.

• Create guardrails, tests, and automation that ensure the safety of substantial automated changes.

• Collaborate with product engineering teams to identify pain points and assess the impact of changes.

• Establish technical direction and provide mentorship to engineers regarding migration strategies, tooling, and codebase integrity.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience, typically 7+ years for Senior roles and 10+ for Staff roles, in working with large, intricate codebases.

• Profound knowledge of application or platform frameworks, including their upgrades and managing their evolution over time.

• Proven track record in leading migrations or significant refactors, from the planning stage to rollout.

• Ability to swiftly navigate unfamiliar code and make informed changes across multiple teams’ areas.

• Solid understanding of agentic loops, encompassing tool usage, context management, verification, and failure handling.

• Genuine commitment to continuously invest in and evolve agentic loops as the field progresses.

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to foster trust with teams whose code you are modifying.

• Nice to have: hands-on experience with Bazel or similar build systems such as Buck, Pants, Nx, or Gradle.

• Nice to have: experience with codemods, AST-based tooling, or automated large-scale refactoring.

• Nice to have: background in CI/CD, test infrastructure, or metrics related to developer productivity.

• Nice to have: experience in building or integrating LLM-based coding tools into engineering workflows.

• Nice to have: contributions to open source projects focused on build tools, frameworks, or developer tooling.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote work

• Medical insurance

• Flexible time off

• Retirement savings plans

• Modern family planning