Staff DevX Engineer: Shape Internal Tools and AI Workflows

Ancestry; United States; Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Equity

Job summary

Ancestry is seeking a Product Engineer to own a developer workflow within the Engineering Productivity group. You will guide discovery, design, build, rollout, and adoption of internal tools and CI/CD enhancements that engineers use daily.

You will balance product scope with practical delivery and ensure measurable impact. You will collaborate with engineers, PMs, and designers, applying AI where it adds value and maintaining high internal tool quality, latency, and accessibility.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Track record of shipping developer-facing software such as CLIs, internal platforms, SDKs, CI/CD tooling, or IDE integrations.
• Strong in at least one area such as TypeScript and React or a backend language (Go, Python, Java, Rust).

Responsibilities

• Own a specific developer workflow, tool, or user problem from discovery to adoption.
• Design flows, states, and error handling; prototype in code or Figma.
• Ship smallest usable version, measure adoption, and iterate with teams.

Skills

5+ years experience

TypeScript & React

Backend languages (Go/Python/Java/Rust

Tools

GitHub Actions

Harness

Buildkite

Job description

Ancestry is seeking a Product Engineer to own a developer workflow within the Engineering Productivity group. You will guide discovery, design, build, rollout, and adoption of internal tools and CI/CD enhancements that engineers use daily.

You will balance product scope with practical delivery and ensure measurable impact. You will collaborate with engineers, PMs, and designers, applying AI where it adds value and maintaining high internal tool quality, latency, and accessibility.