Developer Experience Engineer, AI Infra Platform

Volta; Iowa; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity in Volta

Retirement/pension contributions

Comprehensive health benefits

Generous vacation days

Job summary

Volta is building a next‑gen AI infrastructure platform and developer experience team. You will shape the roadmap for engineering tools, environments, and AI-enabled workflows that accelerate code quality and delivery.

You will own the development platform, security-conscious tooling, and integration of agentic workflows across CI/CD, source control, and observability to reduce toil and move features from concept to production.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in software, platform, infrastructure, AI, or developer tooling.
• Experience making tooling secure by default (supply chain security, secrets management).
• Experience building test clusters and cluster management for dev environments.
• Expert knowledge of SOTA AI-assisted software engineering across harnesses, evals, verification loops, and observability.
• An ear to emerging industry learnings and ability to respond quickly to innovations.
• Judgment to balance exploration of new tech with exploitation of proven ones.
• Experience turning prototypes into reliable tools used by engineers.
• Strong candidates with deep experience in some areas may grow into the rest.

Responsibilities

• Defining and executing Volta’s developer experience roadmap for software engineering, including AI enablement.
• Building the development platform, including build systems, dependency management, and test environments.
• Working with SOTA AI-assisted software engineering across harnesses, evals, verification loops, and observability.
• Integrating agentic workflows into developer environments, source control, CI/CD, observability, and incident response.
• Building agent infrastructure, including MCP servers, tool APIs, context and retrieval systems, permissions, auditability, and human approval paths.
• Collaborating with Security Engineering to establish secure practices across governance and data handling.
• Continuously improving the entire system based on engineer feedback.

Skills

Software engineering

Platform/infrastructure

AI tooling experience

Security by default

Test cluster infrastructure

Observability

Prototype to production

Tools

MCP servers

Tool APIs

Context & retrieval systems

Job description

Volta is building a next‑gen AI infrastructure platform and developer experience team. You will shape the roadmap for engineering tools, environments, and AI-enabled workflows that accelerate code quality and delivery.

You will own the development platform, security-conscious tooling, and integration of agentic workflows across CI/CD, source control, and observability to reduce toil and move features from concept to production.