Senior Staff Platform Software Engineer – DevEx

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

📋 Description

• Become a member of the DevEx team, improving the productivity, autonomy, and well-being of numerous engineers through platform engineering, intelligent automation, and Agentic Journeys.

• Drive the strategy, architecture, and governance of the Developer Experience ecosystem.

• Act as the principal architect for the platforms and tools that enhance engineers’ productivity, autonomy, and well-being.

• Remove bottlenecks throughout the development lifecycle.

• Advance the Internal Developer Portal (IDP).

• Lead the integration of intelligent automation and Agentic Journeys into everyday engineering workflows.

• Ensure governance, traceability, and quality of automation processes.

• Technically coordinate initiatives across platform, data, and backend teams and disciplines.

• Define and refine the technical vision for the Developer Experience ecosystem, aligning engineering strategy with business goals.

• Design and oversee abstractions, Golden Paths/Paved Roads, service templates, and tools.

• Spearhead the research and implementation of AI/agent tools for code reviews, test generation, diagnostics, and CI/CD automation.

• Establish standards for traceability, auditability, and quality control for agent-generated actions and artifacts.

• Define and monitor SPACE, DORA, and DevEx metrics.

• Lead initiatives focused on infrastructure cost visibility and optimization.

• Mentor Tech Leads and Staff Engineers while promoting best practices in architecture, security, and shift-left FinOps.

• Align stakeholders, spearhead cultural transformation, coordinate multi-squad initiatives, and communicate architectural decisions.

• Synchronize the roadmap and architectural choices with stakeholders and senior leadership.

• Collaborate with SRE, Cloud/FinOps, Security, and Software Engineering teams.

• Address operational matters such as cross-squad ownership, permissions, and troubleshooting of internal tools.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience as a Staff, Principal, or Senior Staff Engineer in Platform Engineering, DevEx, or large-scale distributed system architecture.

• Practical experience in building Internal Developer Portals (e.g., Backstage, Port, or proprietary solutions) and defining Golden Paths.

• Strong expertise with modern CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Argo CD).

• Solid proficiency in infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi).

• Strong understanding of container ecosystems (Kubernetes, Docker).

• Hands-on experience integrating LLMs, autonomous agents, or coding assistants into development workflows.

• Familiarity with governance and auditing mechanisms for automation processes.

• Experience with DORA metrics, the SPACE framework, and continuous feedback loops with the developer community.

• Practical experience with cloud cost visibility and resource optimization initiatives (shift-left FinOps).

• Preferred: hands-on experience adopting, evaluating, or customizing AI development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Amazon Kiro, Claude), including tool migration processes.

• Preferred: demonstrated experience mapping and optimizing engineers’ daily journeys, from onboarding and local development environments to deployment, observability, and production support.

🏝️ Benefits

• Market-competitive compensation.

• Health insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Private pension plan.

• Flexible benefits tailored to your needs.

• Meal allowance.

• Financial counseling.

• Employee discounts and perks club.

• Home office allowance.

• Mobility allowance.

• Childcare allowance.

• Life insurance.

• Extended leave policies.

• Sports, quality-of-life, and well-being incentives.

• Payroll-deducted loans at reduced interest rates.

• Flexible and predominantly remote work model.

• In-person gatherings may take place intentionally.