Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience Platform

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

The company is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Developer Experience to shape the technical direction of local and remote development environments, CI pipelines, and pre-production validation. You will guide architecture, reliability, and AI-powered tooling, while mentoring engineers across teams to increase velocity and reduce friction.

You will own metrics, drive multi-quarter initiatives, and partner across organizations to deliver robust, scalable developer experiences in a flexible work

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software development experience.
• Deep, hands-on experience operating CI/CD systems at scale (e.g., Buildkite, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI), including pipeline design, reliability, and performance tuning for large engineering organizations.
• Experience building or operating local/remote development environments or developer platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical direction for the company's local and remote development environments, including ephemeral environments, image-based provisioning, health checks, and the developer-facing ergonomics of the inner development loop.
• Lead the technical direction for our CI pipeline infrastructure and the commit-to-feedback loop, CI reliability, failure diagnostics, flaky-test reduction, and shift-left validation.
• Own the architecture and evolution of our pre-production environments, including staging stability, service-owner accountability models, and environments that let engineers and AI agents validate changes end-to-end in parallel.
• Drive the reliability and resilience of our git infrastructure, git operations at monorepo scale, and implement disaster recovery plans.
• Advance AI-powered developer tooling across the workflow, AI-assisted code review, agentic development workflows, and the platforms that let engineers run many AI sessions in parallel with humans on the loop.
• Design and drive multi-quarter initiatives that measurably improve developer velocity, CI reliability, pre-production health, and the local development loop.
• Own the developer experience metrics for the systems you lead: define what "good" looks like, instrument it, and use the data to prioritize investment.
• Partner with infrastructure, platform, and product engineering teams to roll out platform changes with minimal disruption
• Set the technical bar for the systems you own on reliability, performance, upgrade cadence, and developer ergonomics.
• Mentor engineers in the team and the broader engineering org; grow the community of developer infrastructure experts at the company.
• Represent the team in cross-org technical discussions on local development experience, CI/CD, pre-production, and AI-augmented development.

Skills

Leadership

Mentorship

Hands-on engineering leadership

Tools

Buildkite

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

CircleCI

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

The company is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Developer Experience to shape the technical direction of local and remote development environments, CI pipelines, and pre-production validation. You will guide architecture, reliability, and AI-powered tooling, while mentoring engineers across teams to increase velocity and reduce friction.

You will own metrics, drive multi-quarter initiatives, and partner across organizations to deliver robust, scalable developer experiences in a flexible work