Developer Experience Engineer (AI Tooling)

VOLTA CHARGING; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

Retirement contributions

Health benefits

Generous vacation days

Job summary

Volta, Palo Alto, seeks a software engineer for the new Developer Experience team to build tools, workflows, and agents that help engineers use AI across the product lifecycle—from development environments to CI/CD and testing infrastructure.

Success is measured by faster feedback, higher quality software, and reduced toil as engineering moves safely from idea to production. Collaboration with Security Engineering and continuous improvement are core expectations.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in software, platform, infrastructure, AI, or developer tooling.
• Experience making tooling secure by default, e.g. with supply chain security, secrets management, and least-privilege access.
• Experience building test clusters and cluster management infrastructure to support developer environments.
• Expert knowledge of SOTA AI-assisted software engineering across harnesses, evals, verification loops, and observability.
• An ear to the ground on emerging industry learnings and a track record of responding quickly to promising innovations.
• The judgment and discipline to achieve a balance between exploration of emerging technology and exploitation of proven ones.
• Experience turning prototypes into reliable tools used by other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Defining and executing Volta’s developer experience roadmap for software engineering, including AI enablement.
• Building the development platform, which may span build systems, dependency management, integration and test environments, etc.
• 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 systems.
• 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, model access, data handling, etc.
• Continuously improving the entire system based on engineer feedback.

Skills

Software engineering

Platform infrastructure

AI tooling

Developer tooling

Security by default

AI-assisted software engineering

Tools

MCP servers

Tool APIs

CI/CD tooling

Development environments

Job description

Volta, Palo Alto, seeks a software engineer for the new Developer Experience team to build tools, workflows, and agents that help engineers use AI across the product lifecycle—from development environments to CI/CD and testing infrastructure.

Success is measured by faster feedback, higher quality software, and reduced toil as engineering moves safely from idea to production. Collaboration with Security Engineering and continuous improvement are core expectations.