Senior Developer Productivity Engineer

Together AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Startup equity

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Together AI is seeking an engineer to own the systems and tooling that enable fast, reliable shipping. You will build production release services, CI/CD pipelines, and self-service tooling used by the engineering team.

You will also stand up testing infrastructure, local dev environments, and starter templates to accelerate new services. This role emphasizes end-to-end ownership and scalable tooling to reduce toil and bugs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building software in production with ownership of systems or services.
• Production-quality code and operating real services, not just scripts.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, and JavaScript/TypeScript for tooling.

Responsibilities

• Build and own release services with deployment orchestration and reusable pipelines.
• Develop testing infrastructure to speed up and stabilize tests.
• Create local dev environments and containerized workflows for fast iteration.
• Develop starter templates and tooling to enable quick service creation.
• Be the go-to engineer for GitHub Actions and GitOps workflows.

Skills

Ownership mindset

End-to-end system ownership

Strong fundamentals

Builder mindset

Problem solving

Tools

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes (EKS, etc.)

Skaffold

Job description

About The Role

At Together AI, you'll own the systems and tooling that let our engineers ship quickly and reliably: CI/CD pipelines, release infrastructure, local dev environments, and the testing systems the whole engineering team depends on.

This is a high-leverage, build-heavy role. You'll take on big projects and drive them end to end: building a full-stack release service with deployment orchestration, rebuilding the front-end build pipeline, standing up testing infrastructure that kills flaky builds. The goal is straightforward: engineers should spend their time building products, not fighting their tooling.

This is an engineering role focused on building systems, not a QA or manual testing role. You build the infrastructure that makes manual effort unnecessary.

Responsibilities

• Build and own the production systems engineers rely on: release services with deployment orchestration (canary, blue/green), reusable CI/CD pipelines, and self-service tooling.
• Build testing infrastructure: the frameworks and harnesses that make tests fast and reliable, and track down flaky tests and slow builds at the systems level.
• Build and maintain local dev environments and containerized workflows so engineers can spin up and iterate fast.
• Create starter templates and shared tooling (CLIs, codegen, IDE integrations) so teams can stand up new services in minutes.
• Be the go-to engineer for GitHub Actions and GitOps: defining problems, untangling pipeline issues, and improving how the org works with them.
• Improve front-end build tooling and developer workflows alongside product engineers.
• Work across the org to find the biggest sources of friction and fix them at the root. Document what you build so others can use it.

Requirements

• 5+ years building software in production, with a strong track record of owning systems or services end to end, from design through operation.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals. You write production-quality code and have built and operated real services, not just scripts or test automation.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, and JavaScript/TypeScript for tooling, automation, and enablement.
• Deep experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, GitOps) and building scalable, reusable pipelines.
• Experience with containerized development workflows and local dev tooling (e.g., Skaffold).
• Experience building starter templates and scaffolding, with engineering teams, to accelerate new service creation.
• Hands-on experience with AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) and a habit of using them to move faster and ship more.
• A builder's mindset and strong ownership. You like creating the tools and systems other people depend on.
• Rigor in diagnosing systemic issues: flaky tests, build latency, deployment failures.

Nice to have

• Kubernetes expertise (EKS, K3s) and experience optimizing containerized builds.
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi).
• Front-end tooling familiarity (React, Next.js, Jest) to optimize front-end dev workflows.
• Monitoring and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Honeycomb) to debug bottlenecks.

Compensation

We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance and other competitive benefits. The US base salary range for this full-time position is: $180,000 - $250,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by location, level and role. Individual compensation will be determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.

Equal Opportunity

Together AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more.

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