Senior DevEx Engineer – AI Tooling & Platform

Bazeta; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 179,000 - 232,000; Full time

Job summary

Thumbtack is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for DevEx to empower 250+ engineers with AI-powered developer workflows and a scalable internal platform. You’ll own CDE tooling, developer CLI, and Backstage integrations, shaping how engineers and AI agents collaborate daily.

Ideal candidates bring 6+ years in software engineering, strong systems thinking, and hands-on experience with Claude/Codex-style tools, Go/Python/TypeScript, and React-based UIs.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of industry software engineering experience.
• Experience building developer infrastructure or platform tools.
• Hands-on with agentic developer tools and modern IDEs.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve the developer experience platforms and pipelines.
• Design self-service surfaces and CLI/IDE integrations for engineers and AI agents.
• Own Cloud Development Environment (CDE) tooling for humans and agents.
• Improve build systems, CI/CD, tests, and observability across the org.
• Evaluate new AI developer tools and scale adoption across teams.

Skills

DevEx tooling

CI/CD pipelines

Systems thinking

UX for engineering

Agentic tooling

Tools

Go

Python

TypeScript

React

MCP servers

Job description

Thumbtack is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for DevEx to empower 250+ engineers with AI-powered developer workflows and a scalable internal platform. You’ll own CDE tooling, developer CLI, and Backstage integrations, shaping how engineers and AI agents collaborate daily.

Ideal candidates bring 6+ years in software engineering, strong systems thinking, and hands-on experience with Claude/Codex-style tools, Go/Python/TypeScript, and React-based UIs.