Staff Engineer – Builder Enablement

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

📋 Description

• Recognize shared design and implementation requirements among application engineering teams, and convert them into clear, reusable paved paths that minimize friction and expedite delivery.

• Develop and uphold high-quality documentation, reference architectures, and implementation guides that assist engineers in quickly grasping how to build on enterprise platforms and services.

• Create reusable artifacts such as Terraform or similar modules, code templates, and example implementations that encapsulate best practices and offer solid starting points for new systems.

• Collaborate with enterprise platform and foundation teams to understand existing capabilities and limitations, integrating them into cohesive, developer-friendly patterns.

• Work with architects to translate architectural principles and system insights into practical guidance and functional implementations.

• Contribute to and enhance AI-assisted developer workflows, such as agent-based tools, prompt patterns, or skill definitions, that assist engineers in designing, scaffolding, and operating systems more efficiently.

• Assess and select the most effective medium for enablement—whether documentation, code, templates, or AI-assisted interfaces—based on what will be most beneficial and adoptable for builders.

• Collect feedback from application teams and refine paved paths based on real-world use, enhancing usability, clarity, and adoption over time.

• Assist in identifying gaps in platform capabilities or developer experience, collaborating with foundation teams to drive improvements or the creation of new services as necessary.

• Promote a developer-centric approach to platform adoption, ensuring that enterprise capabilities are accessible, comprehensible, and practical to use.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Over 6 years of relevant experience.

• Strong hands-on experience in building and operating production software systems, with a solid grasp of the tools, workflows, and challenges encountered by application engineers.

• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern infrastructure practices, including infrastructure-as-code (CFT, Terraform, Pulumi, or similar).

• Proven ability to create clear, practical technical guidance—such as documentation, examples, or templates—that other engineers can successfully adopt.

• Experience in translating complex systems or platform capabilities into usable patterns and abstractions for other developers.

• Familiarity with developer workflows and tooling (CI/CD, local development, deployment patterns) and ways to enhance them.

• Ability to collaborate effectively across teams, especially with platform, infrastructure, and application engineers.

• Excellent communication skills, capable of meeting developers where they are and presenting solutions in an approachable and actionable manner.

• A pragmatic mindset, emphasizing usability, adoption, and real-world effectiveness over theoretical elegance.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• 401(k).

• Paid leave.

• Tuition reimbursement.

• A variety of other discounts and perks.