Staff Engineer - Developer Productivity

Platform EngineerPlatform EngineerFull TimeRemote

Location

United States + 1 moreAll locations: United States, Canada

Posted

2 days ago

Salary

$180K - $320K / year

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Job Description

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Role Description

As a Staff Engineer focused on Developer Productivity, you will play a critical role in shaping the engineering experience for a fast-growing team of 50+ engineers operating in a large monorepo with continuous deployment to production. You will focus on improving the entire path-to-production—from local development environments and build systems to testing frameworks and deployment workflows—ensuring engineers can ship high-quality software quickly and reliably.

  • Own the developer experience:
    • Take end-to-end ownership of the build, test, and deployment workflows used across the engineering organization.
  • Improve monorepo productivity:
    • Optimize build pipelines and developer workflows within a large JavaScript/TypeScript monorepo to reduce friction and increase iteration speed.
  • Implement modern build tooling:
    • Evaluate and implement tools such as TurboRepo, Bazel, Nx, or similar technologies to improve build times and modularize dependencies.
  • Drive engineering productivity initiatives:
    • Identify bottlenecks across teams and implement solutions that improve development velocity and reliability.
  • Enhance testing visibility:
    • Improve test coverage insights and build frameworks that allow teams to confidently ship changes at high velocity.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally:
    • Work closely with multiple product and platform teams to understand development pain points and implement scalable solutions.
  • Support a global platform:
    • Contribute to systems that operate across multi-cloud and multi-region infrastructure supporting customers worldwide.
  • Lead technical initiatives:
    • Drive projects from concept through implementation while influencing engineering best practices across the organization.

Qualifications

  • 8–15 years of software engineering experience, primarily in backend or platform engineering roles.
  • Experience improving build systems, testing frameworks, and deployment workflows for large engineering teams.
  • Strong proficiency in TypeScript or JavaScript, with solid computer science fundamentals.
  • Experience working in large monorepos and improving developer productivity within complex codebases.
  • A track record of owning cross-team infrastructure projects that impact many engineers.
  • Experience supporting high-growth engineering organizations (40+ engineers) where dependency management and coordination become complex.
  • Strong systems design and distributed systems knowledge.
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence technical decisions across teams.

Requirements

  • Experience implementing build orchestration tools such as TurboRepo, Bazel, Nx, or similar.
  • Background working on developer tooling, build systems, CI/CD platforms, or internal engineering infrastructure.
  • Experience working within high-growth startups or scaling engineering organizations.
  • Familiarity with Go or backend services alongside TypeScript systems.
  • Experience operating distributed systems across multi-cloud or multi-region environments.
  • Previous experience leading developer productivity or platform initiatives.

Benefits

  • Base Salary: $180,000 – $320,000
  • Equity: Competitive equity package
  • Remote Work: Fully remote within the United States or Canada
  • Visa Sponsorship: Available for most transfers (subject to eligibility)
  • Ownership & Impact: Opportunity to lead critical engineering initiatives in a high-growth company
  • Career Growth: Work alongside experienced engineering leadership and help shape the future of the platform
  • Collaborative Culture: A high-trust environment that values ownership, curiosity, and strong communication

Job Requirements

  • 8–15 years of software engineering experience, primarily in backend or platform engineering roles.
  • Experience improving build systems, testing frameworks, and deployment workflows for large engineering teams.
  • Strong proficiency in TypeScript or JavaScript, with solid computer science fundamentals.
  • Experience working in large monorepos and improving developer productivity within complex codebases.
  • A track record of owning cross-team infrastructure projects that impact many engineers.
  • Experience supporting high-growth engineering organizations (40+ engineers) where dependency management and coordination become complex.
  • Strong systems design and distributed systems knowledge.
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence technical decisions across teams.
  • Experience implementing build orchestration tools such as TurboRepo, Bazel, Nx, or similar.
  • Background working on developer tooling, build systems, CI/CD platforms, or internal engineering infrastructure.
  • Experience working within high-growth startups or scaling engineering organizations.
  • Familiarity with Go or backend services alongside TypeScript systems.
  • Experience operating distributed systems across multi-cloud or multi-region environments.
  • Previous experience leading developer productivity or platform initiatives.

Benefits

  • Base Salary: $180,000 – $320,000
  • Equity: Competitive equity package
  • Remote Work: Fully remote within the United States or Canada
  • Visa Sponsorship: Available for most transfers (subject to eligibility)
  • Ownership & Impact: Opportunity to lead critical engineering initiatives in a high-growth company
  • Career Growth: Work alongside experienced engineering leadership and help shape the future of the platform
  • Collaborative Culture: A high-trust environment that values ownership, curiosity, and strong communication

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