Staff Platform Engineer: CI/CD & Developer Automation

Fetch; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Fetch is hiring a Staff Software Engineer focused on CI/CD engineering to evolve the systems, infrastructure, and developer workflows powering software delivery. You will improve tools and pipelines, surface feedback for developers, and optimize CI performance across backend, mobile, frontend, and platform teams.

This is a generalist platform engineering role with a strong DevOps orientation. At Staff level you’ll drive multi-quarter initiatives impacting hundreds of engineers and establish

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience building or operating CI/CD, developer infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or related systems.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for CI/CD systems and software delivery infrastructure across Fetch.
• Own the CI/CD roadmap over multiple quarters, aligning investment with org priorities, cost tradeoffs, and engineering strategy, and making the case for where to invest and where not to.
• Design, build, and evolve scalable CI pipelines, deployment systems, and developer automation.
• Improve feedback loops by making build failures, test results, quality signals, and deployment health easier for developers to understand and act on.
• Identify and eliminate bottlenecks across build, test, merge, deployment, and release workflows.
• Improve CI performance through caching, parallelization, workload optimization, infrastructure improvements, and thoughtful test execution strategies.
• Design quality gates and automated safeguards that allow teams to move quickly without compromising reliability.
• Build tools and platform capabilities that standardize common software delivery patterns while allowing teams to move independently.
• Partner with infrastructure, SRE, security, backend, frontend, and mobile engineers to improve the reliability and scalability of our software delivery systems.
• Establish metrics and observability for CI/CD systems, including developer feedback time, pipeline reliability, infrastructure utilization, and deployment performance.
• Evaluate build-vs-buy decisions and introduce new technologies when they provide meaningful improvements over existing solutions.
• Lead complex, cross-team technical initiatives from problem definition through adoption.
• Drive adoption of new tools and workflows through documentation, technical guidance, training, and hands-on collaboration.
• Mentor senior and staff-level engineers, and establish feedback loops, review standards, or coaching practices that raise the technical bar for platform, infrastructure, and developer productivity engineering across teams.
• Explore how AI and agentic development workflows can improve build, test, review, deployment, and operational processes.

Skills

CI/CD systems

DevOps

Platform engineering

Cloud infrastructure

IaC

Docker

Kubernetes

Automation

Leadership

Developer tooling

Tools

GitHub Actions

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Fetch is hiring a Staff Software Engineer focused on CI/CD engineering to evolve the systems, infrastructure, and developer workflows powering software delivery. You will improve tools and pipelines, surface feedback for developers, and optimize CI performance across backend, mobile, frontend, and platform teams.

This is a generalist platform engineering role with a strong DevOps orientation. At Staff level you’ll drive multi-quarter initiatives impacting hundreds of engineers and establish