Senior DevEx Engineer: AI Tools & CDE Platform

Thumbtack; United States; Remote; USD 179,000 - 273,000; Full time

Job summary

Thumbtack’s Developer Experience team is building the AI-native developer infrastructure that powers our engineering org. You will roll out Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, ship the skills and MCP servers, and enhance the developer surfaces through Backstage, the CLI, IDE integrations, and agent framework tooling.

You’ll own and evolve the Cloud Development Environment for both humans and AI agents, improve CI/CD pipelines and observability, and evaluate new AI developer tools to scale across

Qualifications

• 6+ years of industry experience in software engineering, including cross-team projects with measurable impact on engineering productivity.
• Fluency in Go and Python for CLIs, services, MCP servers and Slackbots, plus TypeScript and React for the web UIs.
• Hands-on experience with agentic developer tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex, and opinions on their limits and scaling.
• UX mindset applied to engineering systems focusing on personas, journeys, and end-to-end workflows.

Responsibilities

• Build the platforms behind agentic developer workflows: roll out Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and ship skills, plugins, and MCP servers.
• Design and build product surfaces engineers and AI agents reach for daily: Backstage portal, developer CLI, IDE integrations, and agent framework deployment tools.
• Own and evolve the Cloud Development Environment (CDE) platform for human developers and AI agents.
• Improve build systems, CI/CD pipelines, test infrastructure, and observability across the org.
• Prototype and evaluate new AI developer tools and decide what to adopt, configure, and scale.

Skills

Go

Python

TypeScript

React

CI/CD

DevEx

Systems thinking

Tools

Backstage

MCP servers

Job description

Thumbtack’s Developer Experience team is building the AI-native developer infrastructure that powers our engineering org. You will roll out Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, ship the skills and MCP servers, and enhance the developer surfaces through Backstage, the CLI, IDE integrations, and agent framework tooling.

You’ll own and evolve the Cloud Development Environment for both humans and AI agents, improve CI/CD pipelines and observability, and evaluate new AI developer tools to scale across