Staff Software Engineer, Developer Tools & Platform

Ironclad; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401K

Wellness reimbursement

Flexible vacation policy

Generous parental leave

Work from home opportunities

Job summary

Ironclad is seeking a hands-on Staff or Senior Staff Engineer to improve how the team builds, tests, and ships software. You will own local tooling, build/test systems, release automation, and Backstage, while mentoring engineers and guiding adoption.

You’ll partner with SRE and other teams to shape the technical roadmap, drive cross-team projects, and ensure reliable, scalable development across the stack including TS/JS, Kubernetes, and cloud CI/CD tooling.

Qualifications

• 8+ years software engineering experience.
• Senior Staff: 12+ years; leadership across teams.
• Strong programming in TypeScript, Go or Python; shell scripting.
• Production experience with Kubernetes and containers on cloud platforms.
• Experience leading cross-team technical projects and migrations.
• Excellent written communication and design documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead improvements to how Ironclad engineers build, test, and ship software.
• Own local development tooling, build/test systems, release automation, and Backstage.
• Mentor engineers and drive adoption of owned tools.
• Set technical direction and roadmap with other teams; drive priorities & tradeoffs.
• Improve webpack/Jest/Vitest builds; migrate NX to Bazel-based workflows.
• Build Kubernetes tooling enabling product teams to make changes independently.
• Own CI path from commit to production, including Kargo, verification, and rollback.
• Extend Backstage with plugins for deployment, monitoring, and incident data.
• Maintain fast, reliable local development environments across engineers' machines.

Skills

JS/TS tooling

SRE/infrastructure

TypeScript

Go

Python

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Backstage

GitOps

Tools

Bazel

Nx

Kargo

Argo CD

Terraform

Pulumi

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

GCP

AWS

Azure

Backstage plugins

Job description

Ironclad is seeking a hands-on Staff or Senior Staff Engineer to improve how the team builds, tests, and ships software. You will own local tooling, build/test systems, release automation, and Backstage, while mentoring engineers and guiding adoption.

You’ll partner with SRE and other teams to shape the technical roadmap, drive cross-team projects, and ensure reliable, scalable development across the stack including TS/JS, Kubernetes, and cloud CI/CD tooling.