Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Role overview Set technical direction for the tools and platforms that help engineers build, test, and understand software. You’ll identify high-impact workflow problems, design solutions that can serve many teams and services, and remain hands-on in delivery. The role also helps define how AI-assisted and agent-based development fit into a cohesive engineering experience.

Responsibilities - Establish architecture and long-term technical direction across local development, build tooling, shared libraries, testing frameworks, and the developer portal. - Personally design and deliver high-impact platform components that improve engineering workflows across teams. - Use usage data and direct engineer feedback to identify friction and shape a measurable, prioritized roadmap. - Create self-service paths that help product teams develop and evolve services with less manual support. - Coordinate with AI, continuous integration, and cloud infrastructure partners to make the developer journey work end to end. - Lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and help grow technical leadership across the team.

Requirements - At least eight years of professional software engineering experience. - Deep expertise in a general-purpose language such as Kotlin, Java, Go, or TypeScript, with the ability to work across languages. - Experience with build systems and dependency management at scale, including migrations across many services. - A record of leading cross-team technical initiatives from problem definition through delivery and adoption. - Experience building developer-facing tools such as command-line interfaces, SDKs, libraries, testing frameworks, or portals, with attention to usability. - Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools and agent-based engineering practices. - Strong written and verbal communication, including technical strategy and design documents, and the ability to influence without direct authority.

Nice to have - Experience with developer portals or service catalogs. - Work on LLM-based developer tools, coding agents, or MCP servers. - Familiarity with containerized or cloud-based development environments and with measuring developer experience outcomes.

Benefits and work setup - US remote roles are available, alongside hybrid options in Boston, New York, and San Francisco. - Compensation varies by geographic zone, with posted base salary ranges of $151,000–$309,000; additional rewards may include cash incentives, equity, and benefits.