Staff+ Software Engineer, Platform Acceleration

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

We're looking for Staff+ engineers with a strong background in backend or infrastructure who care about developer experience and have built tools other engineers rely on. We prefer candidates who can work from our San Francisco office, and we'll also consider candidates based in Seattle.

What it asks for · 5

• Experience building and operating backend services or infrastructure in production, in Go, Python, Rust, or TypeScript
• Deep experience with developer tooling, CI/CD, test infrastructure, or deployment systems
• Experience leading large, complex technical projects across teams, from an ambiguous problem to a solution developers adopt
• Substantial experience with agents that do engineering or other technical work
• Experience building widely adopted CLI tools, developer-facing services, GitHub automation, or open source developer tools

Also a plus

• Experience at a startup or on a similarly small team, taking a product from zero to one and talking directly to your users
• Substantial experience with agents that do engineering or other technical work
• Experience building widely adopted CLI tools, developer-facing services, GitHub automation, or open source developer tools
• Experience measuring developer productivity and using the data to decide what to build
• A point of view on how software engineering changes as agents write more of the code

What the job covers

• Design, build, and operate the tools that help product teams ship faster
• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for your area, and make sure its hardest problems get solved, by you or through others
• Define what it means to trust a change, especially changes written by Claude, and build the tooling that holds the bar throughout the software development lifecycle
• Build agents that take on repetitive engineering work, such as diagnosing failures, fixing broken tests, and running migrations
• Embed with partner teams to find their biggest sources of friction, validate a solution with them, and turn the fix into a product other teams can adopt
• Move between building new tools and improving the shared systems that teams already depend on, as priorities shift

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• experience9×
• tools6×
• build5×
• changes5×
• developer5×
• product5×
• building4×
• claude4×
• engineers4×
• agents3×
• engineering3×
• infrastructure3×
• technical3×
• adopt2×
• backend2×
• code2×

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