Staff Developer Experience Engineer — Fast CI/CD for Edge

Atoms; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 224,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k)

Equity

Parental Leave

Unlimited PTO

Commuter Benefits

Job summary

Atoms seeks a foundational Developer Experience Engineer to build scalable developer infrastructure powering our autonomous transport initiative. You will be the first dedicated engineer optimizing developer workflows across large-scale C++, Python, Go, Rust and embedded firmware codebases.

You will eliminate build friction, prevent dependency hell, and architect secure OTA update mechanisms to safely deploy software to our edge vehicle fleet.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience in Developer Experience, Build Engineering, or Infrastructure supporting large-scale engineering teams.
• Strong programming proficiency in Python, C++, Go, or similar, with knowledge of modern build systems and package managers (e.g., Bazel, CMake, UV).
• Hands-on experience scaling CI/CD systems, monorepo architectures, and automated testing pipelines for complex codebases.
• Familiarity with embedded systems, firmware builds, or containerized IoT operating systems (Balena Linux or Yocto).
• Foundational understanding of secure, fail-safe OTA deployment pipelines for edge hardware/robotics.
• Proven ability to reduce build/test cycle times and untangle complex dependency graphs.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Own CI/CD pipelines for large, multi-language repos (C++, Python, firmware).
• Cut build times and ensure reproducible builds with Bazel or similar tooling.
• Automate building and testing embedded firmware and vehicle OS (Balena/Yocto).
• Design and implement OTA deployment pipelines with staged rollouts, redundancy, and rollback.
• Decide repository architecture (mono- vs multi-repo) and artifact versioning for scale.
• Wire hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) automation into release validation to catch regressions.
• Track build health and test flakiness; drive data-informed improvements.

Skills

Python

C++

Go

CI/CD

Build systems

Embedded systems

Monorepo architectures

Tools

Bazel

CMake

Balena Linux

Yocto

Job description

Atoms seeks a foundational Developer Experience Engineer to build scalable developer infrastructure powering our autonomous transport initiative. You will be the first dedicated engineer optimizing developer workflows across large-scale C++, Python, Go, Rust and embedded firmware codebases.

You will eliminate build friction, prevent dependency hell, and architect secure OTA update mechanisms to safely deploy software to our edge vehicle fleet.