Software Engineer, Developer

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Location: New York, NY;
San Francisco, CA; or Remote (U.S.)

Company Stage of Funding: Growth-Stage, Venture-Backed

Office Type: Remote or Hybrid (with occasional travel)

Salary: $170,000 – $220,000 USD

Equity: Included

We’re representing a venture-backed AI company building a global product network that enables governments and enterprises to create a more resilient, secure, and transparent global trade ecosystem. Their platform combines large-scale data, AI systems, and cloud-native infrastructure to power mission-critical workflows across commercial and government environments.

As the company scales, developer productivity and platform reliability are strategic priorities. The Developer Experience team plays a central role in ensuring engineers can move quickly, build confidently, and ship reliably across a complex, multi-cloud environment.

As a Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience
, you will own and evolve the infrastructure and tooling that powers the engineering organization’s daily workflows—from cloning the monorepo to deploying to production.

• Optimize build performance and CI/CD pipelines, reducing build times and improving reliability.
• Design and implement improvements to pre-commit checks, PR workflows, and code review processes.
• Architect and build internal tooling, CLIs, and automation that streamline developer workflows.
• Design patterns and abstractions that work consistently across multi-cloud environments, including deployments with heightened security constraints.
• Improve local development environments to enable fast iteration with minimal friction.
• Instrument and monitor developer workflows to identify bottlenecks and drive measurable improvements.
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams to understand pain points and translate them into platform capabilities.
• Contribute to the evolution of monorepo strategy, including dependency management, testing patterns, and code organization.
• Evaluate and integrate new technologies that improve developer productivity and operational efficiency.

Success in this role means faster feedback loops, higher build reliability, and engineers who spend more time solving customer problems rather than fighting infrastructure.

The ideal candidate blends strong software engineering fundamentals with deep infrastructure and platform experience, and has genuine empathy for developers.

• 5+ years of experience across software engineering and infrastructure, platform engineering, or Dev Ops.
• Strong architectural skills—able to design robust systems beyond simple automation scripts.
• Deep experience with CI/CD platforms (e.g., Git Hub Actions, Buildkite, Jenkins, Circle
  
  CI, Git Lab CI).
• Proficiency in Golang and/or Python for tooling and automation development.
• Experience working within large-scale monorepos and understanding their operational challenges.
• Production experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and cloud-native patterns.
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Deep understanding of build systems, dependency management, and performance optimization strategies.
• Strong debugging skills across application and infrastructure layers.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills with cross-team collaboration experience.
• High ownership and ability to operate independently in evolving environments.

• Experience with Buildkite specifically.
• Familiarity with Git Hub Enterprise Cloud administration and Git Hub Apps.
• Experience implementing build caching strategies (remote caching, incremental builds).
• Experience measuring and improving developer…