Staff Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of essential developer infrastructure platforms, such as CI/build systems and deployment orchestration, overseeing them from the design phase to production operation.

• Recognize high-impact issues and convert ambiguous challenges into well-defined technical roadmaps.

• Foster alignment among interdependent teams.

• Enhance build and CI wall time, deployment speed and safety, as well as reduce developer feedback latency.

• Lead strategic initiatives that cut across various teams, including major platform migrations.

• Execute initiatives in collaboration with multiple teams, working alongside the engineers responsible for implementation.

• Manage SLOs, observability, and on-call responsibilities for developer infrastructure.

• Design systems that ensure quick recovery and prevent company-wide incidents.

• Collaborate with engineering customers, engineering managers, and leadership to define the technical strategy.

• Promote organization-wide adoption of developed systems.

• Mentor engineers through design reviews, collaborative coding, and shared ownership.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of experience in building and operating production distributed systems.

• Hands-on expertise in Go or a similar systems programming language.

• Direct involvement in CI/CD, build systems, or deployment tooling.

• Proven history of designing and delivering high-impact backend or platform systems utilized by numerous engineers and services.

• Experience in owning systems from vague problem statements to long-term production management.

• Demonstrated technical leadership in cross-team projects.

• Experience in setting architectural direction and driving organization-wide consensus.

• Extensive operational knowledge of production systems where downtime has significant consequences.

• Experience in designing for reliability, observability, and rapid recovery.

• Ability to facilitate alignment on ambiguous, cross-functional challenges.

• Capacity to elevate the technical standards through mentorship and design reviews.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Responsible utilization of generative AI with human oversight to produce business-ready outputs and measurable workflow enhancements.

• Must reside in the USA.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for equity.

• Bonus eligibility.

• Medical insurance coverage.

• Dental insurance coverage.

• Vision insurance coverage.

• 401(k) plan.

• Quarterly in-person working sessions (“surges”).

• Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.

• Free compatible screen reader available for applicants requiring screen reading technology.