Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Developer Platform

Dilectus Workforce Solutions; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Dilectus Workforce Solutions is seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to advance our internal developer platform. You will own developer tooling, CI/CD, and observability capabilities that empower engineers across teams.

You’ll work on scalable infrastructure, automate release processes, and raise operability by default, aligning with product and ML teams to move fast without compromising reliability.

Qualifications

• Production software experience in platform / devtools or SRE/release engineering.
• Strong coding ability in Python and/or TypeScript/JS, plus developer-facing tooling.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems and scalable pipelines.
• Experience with observability in production (metrics/logs/traces).
• Comfort with containers and cloud infrastructure (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Proven track record of improving developer experience with measurable outcomes (faster builds, fewer flakes, safer deploys).

Responsibilities

• Identify workflow bottlenecks (build/test/release/local dev) and build tools to reduce toil.
• Create and maintain golden paths like service templates, CLIs, libraries, and automation.
• Design reusable CI pipelines and deployment workflows adopted across teams.
• Improve reliability of builds and tests, reduce flakes, and drive down cycle time.
• Establish observability primitives and partner with engineers to improve operability.

Skills

Python

TypeScript/JS

CI/CD

Platform / Devtools

Observability

Containers

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Developer Platform

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Job Description:

About the Team

The Infrastructure team builds and operates the foundations that power Us: networking, data, ML serving, developer platform, and real‑time voice. We partner closely with product, data, and ML to deliver high‑scale, low‑latency systems with clear SLOs and great developer ergonomics.

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build and evolve our internal developer platform—everything from CI/CD and release automation to observability standards, platform tooling, and developer workflows that remove friction.

This role is for someone who loves making other engineers faster: reducing build times, eliminating flaky tests, creating paved roads for service creation/deployment, and raising the bar on operability by default. Roles like this often combine builder energy with strong empathy for how engineers actually work.

What you'll do

• Developer productivity & platform tooling
  
  
  
  • Identify workflow bottlenecks (build/test/release/local dev) and build tools that measurably reduce toil.
  
  
  • Create and maintain golden paths like service templates, CLIs, libraries, and automation that teams rely on.
  
  
  
  


• CI/CD & release engineering
  
  
  
  • Design reusable CI pipelines and deployment workflows that are fast, safe, and easy to adopt across teams.
  
  
  • Improve reliability of builds and tests (flake reduction, hermeticity, caching) and drive down cycle time.
  
  
  • Support progressive delivery patterns (canary / blue-green) and safe rollback mechanisms.
  
  
  
  


• Observability & operational excellence
  
  
  
  • Establish shared observability primitives (metrics/logs/traces), standards, and libraries so services are production-ready by default.
  
  
  • Partner with product engineers to improve operability: SLOs, alerting hygiene, dashboards, incident learnings.
  
  
  
  


• Infrastructure foundations
  
  
  
  • Build and improve core platform capabilities that make it easy to run and scale services.
  
  
  
  


• Ownership & reliability
  
  
  
  • Own the systems you build end-to-end and help keep them healthy in production, improving reliability over time.
  
  
  
  

Your background looks something like this

• Experience building production software, with meaningful experience in platform / devtools / infrastructure (or adjacent SRE/release engineering).


• Strong coding ability in at least one systems/productivity language (e.g., Python, TypeScript/JS), and comfort building developer-facing tooling (CLIs, libraries, automation).


• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD systems and designing pipelines that are scalable and reusable across many repos/services.


• Practical experience with observability in production systems (instrumentation, alerting, dashboards, incident response).


• Comfort with containers and modern cloud infrastructure (e.g., Docker/Kubernetes and related tooling).


• A track record of improving developer experience through measurable outcomes (faster builds, fewer flakes, safer deploys, fewer incidents).


• Strong cross‑team collaboration and communication—especially writing clear docs and driving adoption.

Even better if you have

• Experience with monorepos and build systems and/or large‑scale CI performance work.


• Infrastructure-as-code experience (e.g., Terraform) and a security‑minded approach to supply chain (provenance, secrets, least privilege).


• Experience applying AI‑assisted tooling to make engineers dramatically more effective.