Staff Software Engineer - AI-First Delivery Platform

CircleCI Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

CircleCI is expanding its Delivery Engineering team to advance the agentic software development lifecycle. We design and build shared tooling that enables engineers to work with AI agents at the core of how we develop, test, and deploy software.

The team is small, senior, and focused on practical, scalable improvements that ripple across CircleCI. You will shape workflows, influence tooling choices, and mentor engineers in adopting agentic practices.

Qualifications

• Direct experience driving agentic developer experience efforts. You've driven an initiative that changed how an engineering organization builds software with AI agents.

Responsibilities

• Build AI-natively. AI is how we work. It's not a productivity layer on top of engineering, but the default starting point for how problems get approached and solved.
• Shape how CircleCI builds software with agents. Help define the end-to-end agentic SDLC, from identifying a change through planning, execution, pull request, merge, and measuring impact afterward. Evaluate shared tooling and patterns, and help decide what teams standardize on.
• Start from how our teams actually work. Spend time with engineering teams to understand their workflows and where they get stuck. Use what you learn to drive decisions and direction that teams adopt because the work fits how they operate.
• Build platforms, not one-offs. Build and support shared tooling that other teams depend on, and own its adoption as much as its delivery. A tool nobody uses isn't done.
• Measure what matters. Instrument agent usage and outcomes so we know what improves throughput and quality and what just burns tokens. Treat cost, model choice, and reliability as design concerns.
• Make build-vs-buy calls. Evaluate models, vendors, and open-source tools against our needs, and choose the path that gets engineers the most leverage.
• Lead through influence. Write the design docs, lead technical discussions across teams, and mentor engineers across the org as they adopt agentic workflows.

Job description

CircleCI is expanding its Delivery Engineering team to advance the agentic software development lifecycle. We design and build shared tooling that enables engineers to work with AI agents at the core of how we develop, test, and deploy software.

The team is small, senior, and focused on practical, scalable improvements that ripple across CircleCI. You will shape workflows, influence tooling choices, and mentor engineers in adopting agentic practices.