Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

What you'll do

• Set architecture and technical direction for local development, build tooling, shared libraries, testing frameworks, and the developer portal.
• Design and ship high-impact platform capabilities and self-service golden paths, using engineer feedback and data to prioritize workflow improvements.
• Align with partner teams and mentor engineers through design reviews, mentorship, and code-pairing.

What they ask for

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Deep expertise in at least one general-purpose language and comfort across several.
• Strong experience with build systems and dependency management at scale, including software migrations across hundreds of services.
• Track record leading multi-team technical initiatives and designing usable developer-facing products; hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools and agentic practices.

Nice to have

• Experience with internal developer portals or service catalogs, such as Backstage.
• Experience building or integrating LLM-powered developer tools, coding agents, or MCP servers; containerized or cloud-based development environments; or developer productivity metrics.

Pay

$193,000 — $309,000 USD (base salary); $168,000 — $269,000 USD (base salary); $151,000 — $242,000 USD (base salary)

Tools

Kotlin, Java, Go, TypeScript, Gradle, Maven, npm, Backstage

AI focus

Contribute to AI developer workflows and define an AI-native developer experience; use AI-assisted development tools and agentic practices, potentially including LLM-powered developer tools, coding agents, or MCP servers.