Lead Platform Engineer — AI-Powered DevEx Tools

Nucleus Security; Town of Florida (NY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Generous 401k contributions

Flexible PTO + holidays

Parental leave

Vibrant culture

Job summary

Nucleus is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to architect and deliver AI-powered developer tools that accelerate software delivery and improve daily developer experience. You will own the technical direction for AI-enabled tooling, while ensuring reliability, security, and broad adoption across internal workflows.

You will build automated PR reviewers, code-quality gates, test-generation capabilities, and codebase-aware agents, integrating them into Slack, Git, CI/CD, IDEs, and more.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with ownership of architecture and reliability.
• Strong Python proficiency and working knowledge of TypeScript/JavaScript or Go.
• Experience building CI/CD integrations, PR bots, status checks, CLIs, and code-analysis pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Build and launch AI-powered developer tooling integrated into Slack, Git, CI/CD, IDEs, and internal workflows.
• Drive adoption, measure metrics like cycle time and defects, and improve developer experience.
• Define technical direction for AI-enabled tooling and ensure reliability and security.

Skills

Lead-level engineering

System design

Python

TypeScript/JavaScript

Go

CI/CD integrations

AI/LLM tooling

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub/GitLab APIs

Code review tooling

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub APIs

GitLab APIs

SonarQube

Semgrep

CodeQL

ESLint

Ruff

Job description

Nucleus is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to architect and deliver AI-powered developer tools that accelerate software delivery and improve daily developer experience. You will own the technical direction for AI-enabled tooling, while ensuring reliability, security, and broad adoption across internal workflows.

You will build automated PR reviewers, code-quality gates, test-generation capabilities, and codebase-aware agents, integrating them into Slack, Git, CI/CD, IDEs, and more.