Staff Backend Engineer, Developer Experience
Core
Lead and grow a team responsible for developer tooling and internal platform capabilities used by engineering teams to build and operate services on Kubernetes.
Role type
Staff Backend Engineer (Developer Experience)
Builds
Internal developer platform, Kubernetes-based service onboarding, deterministic development/test environments, and platform reliability/observability tools.
Domain
Software Engineering / DevOps / Kubernetes
Required skills
Go, Ruby, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Platform Engineering, Technical Leadership, System Design, Automation, Observability
Preferred skills
Operator/Controller development, Helm, Multi-cluster management, DevSecOps
Technologies
Go, Ruby, Kubernetes, Helm, CRDs, Controllers, CI/CD pipelines
Responsibilities
Lead and grow a team responsible for developer tooling and internal platform capabilities; Set and execute a roadmap for Kubernetes-based developer workflows; Guide the design of reusable onboarding and deployment patterns; Make environment bring-up and teardown deterministic; Partner with infrastructure, security, and application teams to simplify Kubernetes capabilities; Establish engineering standards, documentation, automation, and feedback loops; Coach engineers through architectural decisions and incident follow-up.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with team leadership
