Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience

💼 Full-time💰 $180,200–$180,200🗓 2026-06-03 → 2026-09-26

Core

Build internal developer platforms, AI-powered developer workflows, and cloud development environments to increase productivity for 250+ engineers.

Role type

Senior IC developer experience engineer (platform & AI tools)

Builds

Internal developer platform, agentic developer tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor), Cloud Development Environments (CDE), and developer CLI/IDE integrations

Domain

Software Engineering Infrastructure / Developer Productivity / AI Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Developer infrastructure design, systems thinking for CI/CD and build pipelines, UX design for engineering tools, agentic AI tool evaluation, Go, Python, TypeScript, React

Preferred skills

Experience scaling tools for 100+ engineers, MCP server development, Backstage platform usage

Technologies

Go, Python, TypeScript, React, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Backstage, MCP, CI/CD pipelines

Responsibilities

Build platforms for agentic developer workflows, design product surfaces for engineers and AI agents, own and evolve the Cloud Development Environment, improve build systems and observability, prototype and evaluate new AI developer tools

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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