Senior Engineer, Developer Platforms, Generative AI

Jobtailor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior software engineer to design and build GenAI-powered developer tooling, including prompts, IDE integrations, and telemetry. You will help power the GenAI developer platform with tools, services, and integrations leveraging LiteLLM for local and background agents, with robust auth and routing.

You will own guardrails and observability for agentic workflows, integrate with Datadog, Jira, GitHub, and internal platforms, and collaborate across Product Engineering to fit

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 2+ years of experience improving developer experience through workflows, documentation, and platform capabilities.
• Golang programming experience.
• Hands-on experience with GenAI tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code).

Responsibilities

• Design and build GenAI-powered developer tooling: prompts, IDE integrations, Cursor/Claude rules, and telemetry.
• Build and run the GenAI developer platform: Tools, services, and integrations leveraging LiteLLM to power agents with auth, configuration, and LLM routing.
• Own guardrails and observability for agentic workflows with Datadog, DX, FinOut; ensure safe auditing with Jira, GitHub, and internal platforms.
• Collaborate with engineers and managers across Product Engineering to fit how teams currently build software.
• Support our mission and values, including journalistic independence, and keep ethics and safety central to AI usage in workflows.
• Limited on-call responsibilities; schedule set on join; demonstrate commitment to our mission.

Tools

Datadog

Cursor

Claude

GitHub

Internal Platforms

Job description

• Design and build GenAI-powered developer tooling: prompts, IDE integrations, Cursor/Claude rules, and telemetry to understand how they’re used.
• Build and run the GenAI developer platform: Tools, services, and integrations leveraging LiteLLM to power both local and background/long-running agents, providing auth, configuration, and LLM routing.
• Own guardrails and observability for agentic workflows: integrate with Datadog, DX, and FinOut, define sensible standards, and make sure agents interact with Jira, GitHub, and internal platforms in a safe, auditable way.
• Work closely with engineers and managers across Product Engineering to understand how they build software today and to design solutions that actually fit the way they work.
• Support our mission and values, including journalistic independence, and keep ethics and safety central to how we use AI in developer workflows.
• This role includes limited on-call responsibilities; the schedule will be set when you join. Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.
• You will report to the Engineering Manager of the DevEx Platforms team

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 2+ years of experience improving developer experience through workflows, documentation, and capabilities of the internal platform
• Experience designing and building cloud native applications. We use Golang
• Hands-on experience building software using GenAI tools, like GitHub's Copilot, Cursor or Claude Code

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in designing and building GenAI-powered developer tooling and cloud native applications, with a strong focus on improving developer experience and ensuring ethical AI usage in workflows.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Golang Programming
• GenAI Tool Development
• Cloud Native Application Design
• Developer Experience Improvement
• Integration with Jira and GitHub

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Software Engineering
• GenAI Tools
• Cloud Native Applications
• Telemetry Implementation
• Agentic Workflows

Soft Skills

• Collaboration
• Ethical Decision-Making
• Commitment to Mission

Industry Keywords

• Developer Tooling
• Observability
• Workflows
• Documentation
• AI Ethics

Tools & Technologies

• Datadog
• Cursor
• Claude
• GitHub
• Internal Platforms