Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

The Developer Experience team owns the infrastructure and tooling that our engineering organization uses every day: our monorepo, our CI/CD platform, and the day-to-day experience of working within our codebase. As a Staff Software Engineer on this team, you'll be responsible for ensuring developers have fast, reliable, and frictionless workflows—from the moment they clone the repo to when their code ships to production.

Altana operates across a multi-cloud environment that's evolving rapidly, with deployments spanning commercial and government-compliant contexts. You'll design patterns and tooling that work consistently across these varied environments while maintaining the flexibility to move quickly. This role sits at the intersection of software engineering and infrastructure—you'll need to think like an application developer, reason about distributed systems, and understand cloud platforms deeply.

You'll work closely with engineering teams across Altana to understand their pain points, identify opportunities for improvement, and build tooling that multiplies developer productivity. Success in this role means faster builds, tighter feedback loops, and engineers who can focus on solving problems rather than fighting their tools.

• →Optimize build performance and CI/CD pipeline efficiency, reducing build times and improving reliability
• →Design and implement improvements to pre-commit testing, PR status checks, and code review workflows in our monorepo
• →Architect and build internal tooling, CLIs, and automation that streamline common developer tasks—with attention to maintainability and extensibility
• →Design patterns and abstractions that work consistently across our multi-cloud environment, including deployments with heightened security requirements
• →Improve local development environments, ensuring engineers can iterate quickly with minimal friction
• →Instrument and monitor developer workflows to identify bottlenecks, then drive measurable improvements
• →Collaborate with engineering teams to understand their needs and translate them into platform capabilities
• →Document best practices, create onboarding materials, and support engineers in adopting new tools and workflows
• →Evaluate and integrate new technologies that improve developer productivity, build reliability, or operational efficiency
• →Contribute to the evolution of our monorepo strategy, including code organization, dependency management, and testing patterns

• 5+ years of experience spanning software engineering and infrastructure, with a focus on developer tooling, platform engineering, or DevOps
• Strong software engineering fundamentals—you can design well-architected systems, not just scripts and glue code
• Deep experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab CI, or similar) and understanding of how to scale them
• Proficiency in Golang and/or Python for automation and tooling development
• Experience working with monorepo architectures and the challenges they present at scale
• Production experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and understanding of cloud-native patterns
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Ability to design patterns that work consistently across multiple environments with varying constraints
• Deep understanding of build systems, dependency management, and strategies for optimizing build performance
• Developer empathy—you understand that fast feedback loops drive productivity and you're motivated by making other engineers more effective
• Self-directed and independent, thriving in fast-moving environments with evolving requirements
• Excellent problem-solving skills and comfort debugging complex systems across application and infrastructure layers
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, comfortable working with technical teams to understand requirements and design solutions

• Experience with Buildkite specifically
• Familiarity with GitHub Enterprise Cloud administration and GitHub Apps
• Experience with build caching strategies (remote caching, incremental builds)
• Background in developer productivity metrics and measurement
• Experience with containerized development environments or remote development solutions
• Experience designing tooling that works across multiple cloud providers or isolated environments
• Understanding of software supply chain security and secure CI/CD practices

• Languages: Python, TypeScript, Go
• CI/CD: Buildkite, GitHub Actions
• Source Control: GitHub Enterprise Cloud, monorepo tooling
• Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform
• Observability: Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana

This role can remote or based in New York City, or the San Francisco Bay Area with an expectation of occasional travel as needed.

Our values are the core beliefs that shape who we are, what we stand for, and how we behave.They form the foundation of Altana’s culture and integrity and guide how we hire, design, build, and connect with each other and our customers.

• Trust: Our customers and partners entrust us with missions of the highest importance. We honor that by keeping our word, meeting commitments, and ensuring every action we take reinforces confidence in us. We rely on each other to deliver, to speak openly, and to hold ourselves accountable.
• Resilience: In a world of uncertainty and complexity, our work must withstand challenges, evolve with conditions, and ensure reliability over time. Resilience is both how we operate and what we deliver. It’s how we respond when things don’t go to plan –– we adapt, we support each other, and we keep moving forward.
• Stewardship: We are stewards of every mission we touch. Because our work impacts lives and futures, we hold ourselves accountable to delivering mission impact and never compromising. Our responsibility extends beyond individual projects to the broader system of global trade. We believe that stewardship starts from within so that we can bring focus, creativity, and excellence to our work. Each of us is personally responsible for fostering a workplace where people can thrive. And we are stewards of the greater good of the company. By holding ourselves and each other accountable, we build a culture of innovation and collective success that reflects the scale of our mission.
• Courage: Courage is what unlocks the seemingly impossible for our customers. It’s the core value that drives us make bold moves and take on big, complicated network problems—the ones others avoid. We know success isn't guaranteed, but we have the audacious vision to believe a solution is possible and to build it. Courage fuels our growth mindset. It means embracing challenges that make us stronger, and it’s demonstrated by how we approach hard conversations and complex projects.

At Altana, we believe that a diverse workforce enables greater creativity, performance, and adaptability. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome you to join us as you are. Our employment opportunities and decisions are based on business needs and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, family care or medical leave status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the laws or regulations in the areas in which we operate. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, in any situation.

Offers related to employment at Altana will come from an Altana.ai email address. We will never ask for payment as part of the interview or onboarding process.