Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

Team Matching: Team matching is determined after the interview process based on interview performance, interests, and business priorities. Please note we may also consider you for different Infrastructure teams.

What it asks for · 6

• Have deep experience with build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and/or developer tooling in a large monorepo environment
• Have strong proficiency in Python, Rust and/or Go
• Are obsessed with developer productivity and reducing friction in the software development lifecycle
• Have experience with container orchestration and infrastructure at scale
• Have excellent communication skills and enjoy supporting internal partners to improve their development experience
• Are excited about designing foundational systems and are comfortable working independently on ambiguous, high-impact technical challenges

Also a plus

• 15+ years (not including internships or co-ops) of experience in a Software Engineer role, building and operating large-scale developer infrastructure
• 3+ years (not including internships or co-ops) of experience leading large scale complex projects or teams as a tech lead
• Experience with CI orchestration tools (Buildkite, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar) and merge queue management at scale
• Experience building or operating remote build execution systems (Bazel Remote Execution API, BuildBarn, BuildBuddy, or similar)
• Experience with Nix/NixOS/Docker and managing large image / package sets at scale
• Experience building CLI tools, developer-facing services, and GitHub API and automation workflows

What the job covers

• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for your area, translating team-level goals into concrete execution plans
• Define infrastructure architecture, ensuring the hardest problems get solved — whether by you directly or by working through others
• Design and build scalable, reliable distributed infrastructure and shared libraries that support high-volume workloads across all engineering teams
• Own and evolve build environments, package management, and dependency systems to enable fast, reproducible builds
• Define and implement language ecosystem standards, tooling, and frameworks that drive developer productivity across research and production workloads

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• experience10×
• build9×
• infrastructure8×
• developer6×
• scale6×
• systems6×
• developer productivity3×
• execution3×
• large3×
• reliable3×
• tooling3×
• and/or2×
• api2×
• claude2×
• co-ops experience2×
• define2×

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