Staff Software Engineer – Developer Experience

Stellenbeschreibung:

Lead technical direction for local and remote development environments, including ephemer environments, image-based provisioning, health checks, and inner development loop ergonomics
Lead technical direction for CI pipeline infrastructure, commit-to-feedback loops, CI reliability, failure diagnostics, flaky-test reduction, and shift-left validation
Own architecture and evolution of pre-production environments, staging stability, service-owner accountability, and parallel end-to-end validation environments
Drive reliability and resilience of git infrastructure at monorepo scale and implement disaster recovery plans
Advance AI-powered developer tooling, AI-assisted code review, agentic development workflows, and parallel AI session platforms
Design and drive multi-quarter initiatives improving developer velocity, CI reliability, pre-production health, and local development
Own and instrument developer experience metrics to prioritize investment
Partner with infrastructure, platform, and product engineering teams to roll out platform changes with minimal disruption
Set technical standards for reliability, performance, upgrade cadence, and developer ergonomics
Mentor engineers and grow the developer infrastructure community
Represent the team in cross-organization technical discussions

Requirements

10+ years of software development experience
Deep, hands-on experience operating CI/CD systems at scale, including pipeline design, reliability, and performance tuning
Experience building or operating local/remote development environments or developer platforms
Track record of leading cross-team technical initiatives with measurable impact
Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS
Experience with containerization using Docker
Experience with orchestration such as ECS/Kubernetes or equivalent
Experience with large monorepos and related git infrastructure challenges
Strong technical leadership, mentoring, and influence without direct authority
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience preferred
Experience owning or evolving a developer environment platform used by a large engineering organization preferred
Experience stabilizing pre-production/staging environments at scale preferred
Experience with AI-powered developer tooling preferred
Experience defining and instrumenting developer productivity metrics preferred
Experience at high-growth companies operating developer infrastructure preferred

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in leading technical direction for CI/CD systems, local and remote development environments, and AI-powered developer tooling. Proven ability to mentor engineers, drive reliability, and improve developer velocity through strategic initiatives and metrics.