Staff AI/ML Engineer — Developer Productivity & Tooling Lead

Jobtailor; California (MO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior software engineer to design, build, and operate scalable production systems in the cloud. You will influence the technical roadmap, evaluate new tools, and ship improvements that measurably boost engineering productivity and core metrics.

The role focuses on best practices, tooling, and balancing delivery with technical debt while mentoring engineers and shaping the team culture to achieve high accountability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing, building and operating production systems at scale
• Experience designing highly scalable, reliable, and maintainable services
• Experience writing in Go, Python, or other languages at production scale
• Ability to lead and influence others, both internal and external to the team

Responsibilities

• Identify engineering pain points and propose/design/implement solutions that are reliable, scalable, and maintainable
• Influence the team’s technical roadmap
• Evaluate new tools and technologies through PoCs
• Ship improvements to our AV development toolchains and services which have a measurable and direct impact on engineering productivity and our core company metrics
• Drive software engineering best practices within your team, and create tooling which encourages these
• Help steer the engineering culture on the team
• Guide the team to find the right balance between delivering impact and addressing technical debt
• Mentor and grow engineers on the team
• Set the example for high levels of accountability
• Execute and deliver impact both individually and through the team
• Set strong boundaries when selecting external requests and pushing back on requests that do not align with our team vision

Skills

Cloud architecture

Go

Python

Unix/Linux

Networking

Leadership

Mentoring

Engineering productivity

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Go

Python

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a senior software engineer to design, build, and operate scalable production systems in the cloud. You will influence the technical roadmap, evaluate new tools, and ship improvements that measurably boost engineering productivity and core metrics.

The role focuses on best practices, tooling, and balancing delivery with technical debt while mentoring engineers and shaping the team culture to achieve high accountability.