Staff Engineer (IT Automation & AI-native Transformation)

In this Staff Engineer role, you will help build the foundation for SoSafe's AI-native future by architecting and delivering a cross-company automation platform. You’ll lead the evolution of IT operations toward an as-code infrastructure, mentor teams, and champion platform adoption across departments. This role blends hands-on building with strategic guidance to scale innovative automation and AI-driven workflows. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to turn experimentation into production-grade solutions that reduce risk and boost efficiency.

• flexible hours
• 33 vacation days
• Open Up wellbeing support
• corporate discounts
• virtual events and team activities
• dog-friendly HQ

• Architect and implement a toolchain that blends traditional automation with spec-driven design and agentic working
• Mentor and enable early adopter teams to derive value and iterate the platform
• Standardise cultural practices and scale the platform across the organisation
• Drive IT operations evolution toward an as-code infrastructure model through hands-on architecture and design
• Contribute to the IT/Sec Operating System as the org shifts to build-not-buy models
• Mentor and elevate the IT engineering team and broader departments to accelerate skills transfer
• Champion automation/AI platforms and drive cross-department adoption to reduce silos

• Staff or Principal Engineer level experience in a cloud-native SaaS environment
• Hands-on coding background in a platform or SRE context; IT experience secondary
• Proven AI-native adoption with production-grade automated workflows or agents
• Deep mastery of infrastructure-as-code
• Experience with modern CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions)
• Experience with enterprise-grade workflow orchestration (n8n, Zapier)
• Pragmatic engineering mindset and ability to design hybrid architectures balancing speed and cost
• Strong leadership and communication skills for diverse audiences

• leadership
• clear communication to non-technical stakeholders
• cross-functional collaboration
• infrastructure-as-code
• GitHub Actions
• n8n