Staff Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction and architecture of large-scale continuous integration services and infrastructure.
• Design, build, and operate distributed systems for reliable software delivery.
• Develop CI capabilities that improve build reliability, test execution, developer productivity, and release velocity.
• Drive architectural decisions across build systems, test orchestration, resource scheduling, workflow execution, and developer tooling.
• Identify and resolve systemic software delivery bottlenecks at scale.
• Define technical roadmaps and lead complex initiatives involving multiple teams.
• Establish standards for design, code quality, testing, observability, reliability, and operational readiness.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, technical guidance, and collaborative problem-solving.
• Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and long-term reliability improvements.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and industry practices for developer platform scalability.

Requirements

• 7+ years of industry experience designing and building production software systems.
• Demonstrated technical leadership across complex, multi-team engineering initiatives.
• Deep experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale.
• Experience building or significantly evolving enterprise-grade continuous integration or continuous delivery systems.
• Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and systems design.
• Proficiency in one or more of Java, C++, Python, or Go.
• Experience making architectural decisions involving scalability, reliability, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Understanding of developer productivity and the software development lifecycle.
• Experience with CI/CD and build systems such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Bazel, or ArgoCD is preferred.
• Experience with build optimization, caching, parallel execution, incremental builds, or distributed test scheduling is preferred.
• Experience with multi-tenant systems, Kubernetes, containers, AWS, Azure, or GCP is preferred.
• Experience operating developer platforms, engineering infrastructure, observability systems, or production operations is preferred.
• Experience authoring technical roadmaps, architecture documents, project plans, postmortems, and root-cause analyses is preferred.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, collaboration, mentoring, and technical-influence skills.

Benefits

• Base salary range is $236,000–$354,000 USD, with a target bonus, equity eligibility, and total target compensation also described in the posting.
• Benefits include medical, dental, vision, 401(k), ESPP, paid time off, parental leave, disability coverage, and company-paid life insurance.