Staff Software Engineer - Developer Experience

This is a high-impact technical leadership role focused on transforming the software development lifecycle through AI-native engineering workflows. You will architect intelligent automation, validation guardrails, and closed-loop systems that help AI agents accelerate development while keeping engineers and product managers in control of critical decisions. Working across planning, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance, you will help establish scalable practices that improve engineering productivity and software quality. You will champion adoption across teams, mentor developers, and collaborate with platform, research, and security stakeholders to modernize how software is built and maintained. The role offers significant autonomy and the opportunity to shape the future of developer experience in a complex, data-driven engineering environment.

• Deep conceptual and hands-on expertise in integrating AI into the software development lifecycle, from planning through production maintenance.

• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, JavaScript, or similar languages, with a focus on clean, maintainable, production-grade tools.

• Extensive practical experience with modern CI/CD orchestration platforms such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins.

• Strong knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and containerization technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.

• Demonstrated ability to use data and engineering metrics, particularly DORA metrics, to improve delivery performance and framework reliability.

• High autonomy, initiative, and comfort navigating ambiguity, identifying engineering friction, and developing practical solutions without waiting for assigned tasks.

• Excellent technical leadership, communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills across multidisciplinary engineering teams.

• Preferred: Experience managing complex software states and isolating or reproducing environments at enterprise scale.

• Preferred: Experience building internal applications, wrappers, or developer plugins around large language models (LLMs).

• Preferred: Technical leadership or close collaboration across distributed engineering teams in North America and India.

• Preferred: Familiarity with service integration and contract testing tools, as well as developer catalog platforms such as Backstage.

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future visa sponsorship and able to begin employment in the U.S. on the first day.