Staff Engineer - Dev Experience & Infra (Remote-Friendly)

Ambience; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 250,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly culture

Equipment provisioning

Parental leave

Team off-sites

Flexible time off

Job summary

Ambience is building AI systems that empower clinicians by providing fast, reliable software infrastructure for agent-assisted development. You will own the developer-productivity substrate, from local dev stacks to verification loops, enabling engineers and AI agents to collaborate effectively.

The role emphasizes strong backend skills in TypeScript/Rust/Go/Python, deep platform experience, and security-minded design, with a hybrid SF-office schedule 3x/week and a base pay range disclosed.

Qualifications

• You have a Bachelors degree and 7+ years of experience.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience with Staff-level impact across teams.
• Deep experience building developer productivity, platform, CI, test, or internal tooling systems that engineers adopted.
• Strong backend/platform fundamentals in TypeScript, Rust, Go, Python, or similar.
• Daily user of Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or equivalent on real production codebases.
• Clear opinions on where agents help, where they fail, and what infrastructure makes them reliable.
• Sound security judgement — can translate risk into practical controls without freezing progress.
• Willing to work from our San Francisco office 3x/week.

Responsibilities

• Own the developer-productivity substrate for Ambience: dev environments, build/test workflows, CI, internal tooling, repo standards, verification systems, and safe tool access for agent-assisted development.
• Build reusable checks for high-risk workflows: frontend flows, migrations, schema changes, integration paths, API contracts, and structured evidence that lets reviewers trust agent-generated code.
• Internal Tooling — Replace bespoke scripts and tribal knowledge with paved-road workflows: CLIs, scaffolds, templates, codegen, migration helpers, and release utilities that make the right workflow the default.
• Agent Tool Access — Create scoped, auditable access to local DBs, browsers, GitHub, CI, logs, and docs while keeping PHI and production-data workflows controlled.

Skills

Backend development

System design

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

TypeScript

Rust

Go

Python

Docker

CI/CD

Job description

Ambience is building AI systems that empower clinicians by providing fast, reliable software infrastructure for agent-assisted development. You will own the developer-productivity substrate, from local dev stacks to verification loops, enabling engineers and AI agents to collaborate effectively.

The role emphasizes strong backend skills in TypeScript/Rust/Go/Python, deep platform experience, and security-minded design, with a hybrid SF-office schedule 3x/week and a base pay range disclosed.