Staff Software Engineer – Developer Experience

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

📋 Description

• Provide leadership for technical direction in both local and remote development settings, which encompass ephemeral environments, image-based provisioning, health checks, and optimizing the inner development loop.

• Guide the technical direction for CI pipeline infrastructure, focusing on commit-to-feedback loops, CI reliability, failure diagnostics, reduction of flaky tests, and validation through early shifts.

• Take ownership of the architecture and development of pre-production environments, ensuring staging stability, service-owner accountability, and the availability of parallel end-to-end validation environments.

• Enhance the reliability and resilience of git infrastructure at a monorepo scale while implementing disaster recovery strategies.

• Promote the advancement of AI-driven developer tools, AI-assisted code reviews, agentic development workflows, and parallel AI session platforms.

• Conceptualize and lead multi-quarter initiatives aimed at improving developer velocity, CI reliability, pre-production health, and local development practices.

• Own and monitor developer experience metrics to guide investment priorities.

• Collaborate with infrastructure, platform, and product engineering teams to implement platform changes with minimal disruption.

• Establish technical standards related to reliability, performance, upgrade cadence, and developer ergonomics.

• Mentor engineers and foster the growth of the developer infrastructure community.

• Represent the team in technical discussions across the organization.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in software development.

• Extensive hands-on experience managing CI/CD systems at scale, including pipeline design, reliability, and performance optimization.

• Proven experience in building or managing local and remote development environments or developer platforms.

• A history of leading cross-team technical initiatives that have delivered measurable results.

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS.

• Proficient in containerization technologies, specifically Docker.

• Knowledge of orchestration tools such as ECS/Kubernetes or similar solutions.

• Experience with large monorepos and the associated git infrastructure challenges.

• Strong capabilities in technical leadership, mentoring, and influencing others without direct authority.

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field is preferred.

• Experience in owning or evolving a developer environment platform utilized by a substantial engineering organization is preferred.

• Background in stabilizing pre-production or staging environments at scale is preferred.

• Familiarity with AI-driven developer tools is preferred.

• Experience in defining and measuring developer productivity metrics is preferred.

• Experience working in high-growth companies with developer infrastructure is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• New hire equity grant.

• Annual refresh grants.

• Flexible work arrangements: employees can work from home, an office, or their favorite coffee shop.

• Regular in-person events.

• Highly competitive compensation and benefits package.