Senior Software Engineer, Platform – Developer Experience

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Colorado, +2 more states.

📋 Description

• Develop and enhance the Developer Experience capability within Foundation Engineering.

• Replace shared, slow-to-provision environments with on-demand ephemeral environments.

• Address realistic multi-tenant test data seeding challenges.

• Decrease local build and test durations.

• Create documented golden paths for building, testing, and operating services.

• Facilitate artifact-once builds and their promotion across different environments.

• Establish a reliable feature flag system that distinguishes deployment from release.

• Ensure that dependency scanning, secrets detection, and static analysis are standard steps in every build.

• Unite teams under a shared CI pipeline and assess the adoption of existing tools.

• Write AWS infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code for tools and environments.

• Collaborate with cloud engineers responsible for managing the production footprint.

• Take responsibility for the infrastructure and tools established by this role.

• Advance capabilities for AI-assisted engineering, including deterministic builds, rapid test feedback, sandboxed execution, review gates for agent-authored changes, and MCP platform capabilities.

• Report directly to the Engineering Manager for Developer Experience.

• Define the strategic direction for developer environments and infrastructure-as-code.

• Contribute to production tasks alongside cloud engineers.

⛳️ Requirements

• Production AWS infrastructure defined as code using Terraform, CDK, Pulumi, or CloudFormation.

• Practical experience with configuring networking, IAM, and container workloads.

• Experience in carrying a pager for infrastructure relied upon by other engineers.

• Background in building or significantly revamping a CI/CD system utilized by other engineers.

• Capability to articulate the improvements made to a CI/CD system and the metrics used to measure success.

• Experience in making a real system operational outside of production, such as ephemeral environments, multi-tenant test data, or containerized local development.

• Proven track record of writing a tool or service that is used daily by other engineers.

• Experience creating software for users beyond one’s own team of engineers.

• Ability to discuss both the successful and unsuccessful adoption of an engineering product.

• Familiarity with utilizing AI in engineering tasks and assisting other engineers in AI adoption with suitable human oversight.

• Preferred: experience with feature flag platforms and progressive delivery techniques.

• Preferred: familiarity with Kubernetes or ECS at a production scale.

• Preferred: knowledge of OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, or structured logging, particularly for sensitive data.

• Preferred: experience in HIPAA-regulated or other compliance-sensitive environments.

• Preferred: experience with Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or GitHub Actions.

• Preferred: knowledge of test automation frameworks or contract testing in an event-driven architecture.

• Preferred: experience in working alongside a legacy platform during migration processes.

• Preferred: proficiency in Node and TypeScript, internal developer portals, or MCP servers.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits.

• Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.

• Flexible working hours and remote work options.

• Collaborative and innovative work environment.