Senior Software Engineer, DevX

Velocity Global; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Developer Experience team. This role focuses on enhancing the software development lifecycle and optimizing internal tools to improve developer efficiency. You will collaborate closely with engineering teams to identify pain points and implement solutions that streamline workflows. If you are passionate about creating a better developer experience and have a strong background in software engineering, this opportunity offers a dynamic environment where your contributions will directly impact the success of the engineering team.

Benefits

Health and Dental Insurance

Retirement Savings + Employee Incentive Plan

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on Internal Tools.
• Strong understanding of cloud native architecture and software design patterns.

Responsibilities

• Enhance the software development lifecycle to improve efficiency and satisfaction.
• Build and maintain tools for code building, testing, deployment, and observability.

Skills

Software Engineering

Internal Tools Development

Cloud Native Architecture

Developer Empathy

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Master’s degree in Engineering

Tools

TypeScript

Postgres

AWS

CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Grafana

Prometheus

Datadog

Job description

Velocity Global offers the most unified, tech-enabled, and customer service-driven global workforce management, ensuring smooth, reliable operations across countries, roles, and workforce types so businesses can navigate complexity with confidence, deliver strong results, and stay ahead. We help you expand your business into new markets without the complexity of setting up entities. We hire, pay, and manage your workforce across 185+ countries with our AI-powered global Workforce Technology platform.

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Senior Software Engineer to join our Developer Experience (DevX) team. The ideal candidate is passionate about improving the SDLC process while enhancing the total developer experience here at Velocity Global. You will play a pivotal role in optimizing tools, workflows, and infrastructure to help our engineers ship high quality software faster and with confidence. You’ll work closely with software engineers, DevOps, and product teams to identify friction points in the development process, automate repetitive tasks, and build systems that scale with our growing engineering team.

You will be based in Palo Alto, California, and in-office collaboration is required for at least three days per week.

You Will:

• Analyze and enhance the software development lifecycle (SDLC) to improve developer efficiency and satisfaction
• Build and maintain internal tools and services that streamline code building, testing, deployment, and observability
• Collaborate with engineering teams to understand pain points and develop solutions that improve day-to-day productivity
• Lead initiatives to standardize and improve CI/CD pipelines, development environments, and build systems
• Champion best practices in code quality, automation, and observability
• Instrument metrics and feedback loops to continuously evaluate the effectiveness of developer tooling
• Contribute to documentation and onboarding resources to make development more intuitive for new engineers
• Lead by example in writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code. Contribute to technical discussions, design reviews, and code reviews to maintain high engineering standards.

You Have:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with a strong focus on Internal Tools or Platform Engineering within a cloud native architecture.
• Experience with TypeScript, Postgres, and AWS (Lambda, EKS, DynamoDB , RDS PgSQL, API Gateway, S3, etc.).
• Solid understanding of software design patterns, microservices architecture, and RESTful APIs.
• Experience with CI/CD systems (e.g. GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab CI)
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform, Pulumi) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• A strong sense of developer empathy and a passion for optimizing engineering workflows
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a team-oriented mindset.

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• Successful experience managing the community-to-customer lifecycle across complementary open source and commercial offerings.
• Experience working on platform or internal developer tooling teams
• Familiarity with monorepos or large-scale codebases
• Knowledge of performance profiling, test optimization, or build caching
• Experience with observability tools (e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog)
• Contributions to open-source developer tools

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The base pay depends upon many factors, such as training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified.

Annualized Pay Range

$175,000 — $275,000 USD

We are dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion across our organization, embracing the rich tapestry of cultures, backgrounds, and perspectives that our global team brings together in offices around the world. Velocity Global is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to empowering individuals from all walks of life to achieve their professional goals with us, regardless of race, religion, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, disability, sexual orientation, age, national origin, citizenship status, or genetic information. We actively seek and encourage applications from diverse candidates, including those with disabilities, and offer accommodations throughout the selection process upon request.

Velocity Global offers a range of benefits tailored to the location and type of role. A general benefits overview is below:

• Health and Dental Insurance (where applicable)
• Retirement Savings + Employee Incentive Plan