Staff Software Engineer – Developer Experience

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

📋 Description

• Lead the architecture of innovative validation guardrails and an AI-native developer experience.

• Design engineering workflows that encompass Planning, Design, Build, Test, Deploy, and Maintain into automated closed-loop systems.

• Oversee the creation of intelligent frameworks, AI SDLC playbooks, and deterministic guardrails.

• Foster the bottom-up adoption of AI-native development workflows by mentoring engineers on the orchestration of parallel agentic sessions and subagents.

• Collaborate with platform engineers, R&D teams, and security to eliminate manual handoffs and sign-off cycles through automated artifact triggers and governance boundaries.

• Operationalize markdown-driven artifact pipelines with clear audit trails from conception to production.

• Design deterministic build-time and deployment hooks as safety measures for AI development.

• Integrate AI into pull-request reviews using structured policies and CI runners for multi-pass reviews and autonomous comment-thread resolution.

• Develop verification harnesses and visual feedback loops for AI-agent self-testing and correctness validation.

• Create continuous evaluation suites in CI to regression-test AI steering configurations against actual engineering tasks.

• Implement production monitoring scripts to identify control breaches and establish triage queues for closed-loop enhancements.

• Guide developers and spearhead grassroots technical initiatives across engineering teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without requiring current or future visa sponsorship.

• Must be eligible to start work in the U.S. on the first day of employment.

• Extensive conceptual and practical knowledge of integrating AI into the development lifecycle throughout the entire SDLC.

• Proven track record of improving DORA metrics and framework reliability through detailed data analysis.

• Ability to excel in highly ambiguous environments and proactively identify and address friction points.

• Strong programming proficiency in Python, Java, or JavaScript.

• In-depth hands-on experience with advanced CI/CD orchestration tools such as GitHub Actions and Jenkins.

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform.

• Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

• [Preferred] Experience managing complex software states and mimicking/isolating environments utilizing tools at the enterprise level.

• [Preferred] Previous experience in developing custom internal wrapper applications or developer plugins around Large Language Models (LLMs).

• [Preferred] Demonstrated success in technically leading or closely collaborating across split North American and Indian engineering teams.

• [Preferred] Knowledge of service integration testing, contract testing tools, and developer catalog platforms such as Backstage.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Equity

• Comprehensive benefits

• Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities

• Equal opportunity and inclusive workplace