Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

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

📋 Description

• Establish the technical direction and long-term architecture for local development, build tools, shared libraries, and the developer portal.

• Supervise the architecture of testing frameworks and core libraries utilized for developing web services.

• Create, construct, and deliver high-impact, cross-functional platform components.

• Collaborate with Product teams by leveraging data and engineering feedback to pinpoint workflow challenges and develop a prioritized, measurable roadmap.

• Design self-service golden paths and paved roads for product teams to build and enhance services.

• Foster technical alignment with AI, CI/CD, and Cloud Infrastructure partner teams.

• Work alongside customer-facing teams to align developer platform solutions with customer and business requirements.

• Elevate the team's technical standards through design reviews, mentorship, code pairing, and nurturing technical leaders.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of professional software engineering experience.

• Profound expertise in at least one general-purpose programming language, such as Kotlin, Java, Go, or TypeScript.

• Comfort in working with multiple programming languages.

• Extensive experience with build systems and dependency management at scale, like Gradle, Maven, or npm.

• Experience overseeing software migrations across numerous services.

• Proven record of leading technical initiatives across various teams from problem identification through design, delivery, and adoption.

• Experience in designing developer-centric products such as CLIs, SDKs, shared libraries, testing frameworks, or portals.

• Emphasis on usability and adoption.

• Practical experience and strong opinions regarding AI-assisted development tools and agentic development practices.

• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to create clear technical strategy and design documentation, and influence without direct authority.

• Deep empathy for engineers as customers, with a focus on measuring outcomes rather than merely shipping features.

• Experience with internal developer portals or service catalogs, such as Backstage, is preferred.

• Background in building or integrating LLM-powered developer tools, coding agents, or MCP servers is preferred.

• Familiarity with containerized or cloud-based development environments, such as Dev Containers, Docker, Kubernetes, or AWS ECS, is preferred.

• Experience defining and tracking developer productivity metrics, such as DORA, SPACE, or build and test analytics, is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits packages.

• Cash compensation, which may include overtime and bonuses/commissions if applicable.

• Equity options.

• Benefits that promote a healthy lifestyle.

• Flexible benefits to accommodate changing needs.

• Hybrid work model that values individual preferences.

• Reasonable accommodations available for individuals with disabilities.