Staff Engineer - Developer Productivity

Role Description

This role sits at the center of engineering velocity — responsible for how 50+ engineers build, test, and ship software every day.

• Own the end-to-end developer experience across build, test, and deployment systems for a large engineering organization.
• Lead the evolution of a large JavaScript/TypeScript monorepo used by 50+ engineers.
• Reduce build and CI times through tooling, caching, and architectural improvements.
• Implement and scale modern monorepo tooling (e.g., TurboRepo, Bazel, Nx).
• Improve testing infrastructure, visibility, and reliability across multiple engineering teams.
• Design systems to improve developer iteration speed and reduce cross-team blocking dependencies.
• Own observability and operational excellence across build/test/deploy pipelines.
• Support multi-region and multi-cloud infrastructure used in production systems.
• Partner closely with product engineering teams to identify friction points in development workflows.
• Drive engineering-wide standards for code quality, testing, and release processes.
• Act as a force multiplier for engineering productivity across the org.

Qualifications

• 8–15 years of experience in backend or developer productivity engineering.
• Strong experience in developer tooling, build systems, or monorepo infrastructure.
• Experience working in engineering organizations scaling from ~40 to 100+ engineers.
• Deep expertise in TypeScript / JavaScript ecosystems.
• Strong systems design fundamentals and understanding of distributed system behavior.
• Hands-on experience improving CI/CD pipelines, build performance, or developer workflows.
• Experience implementing or scaling tools like TurboRepo, Bazel, or Nx.
• Strong CS fundamentals (degree in CS/CE preferred from top universities).
• Experience at high-growth startups or top-tier engineering organizations.

Requirements

• Preferred experience at companies like Vercel, Stripe, Databricks, Plaid, Ironclad, etc.
• Background in developer platforms, build systems, or internal tooling teams.
• Experience working on multi-cloud or multi-region distributed systems.
• Exposure to event-driven architectures or large-scale backend systems.
• Prior experience owning engineering productivity across multiple teams.
• Strong ability to influence engineering culture and technical direction.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary: $180,000 – $320,000.
• Meaningful equity package.
• Remote (US & Canada) flexibility.
• High ownership role with org-wide impact.
• Opportunity to define developer productivity for a fast-scaling engineering org.
• Direct visibility with engineering leadership.
• High-impact systems used across the entire engineering organization.