Senior Developer Productivity Engineer

Together; 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 looking for an experienced engineer to own the production systems and tooling that keep our engineers shipping quickly and reliably in San Francisco. You’ll build release services with deployment orchestration, frame testing infrastructure, and local dev environments to speed iteration.

You'll work across the org to reduce friction, define problems, and ship self-service capabilities. This role emphasizes building systems, not QA, with a focus on reliability and performance for

Qualifications

• 5+ years building software in production, with a strong track record of owning systems end to end.
• Production-quality code and real services experience, not just scripts.
• Deep experience with CI/CD systems and scalable pipelines.

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.

Skills

End-to-end ownership

Production software

CI/CD systems

GitHub Actions

Containerized workflows

Debugging and performance

Builder's mindset

Tools

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Skaffold

Terraform

Pulumi

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

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.
• 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.

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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