Position Details

Type Full-Time

Experience senior

Exp. Years 8+ years

Category Software Engineering

About this role

Staff Software Engineer leading AI developer tooling initiatives, defining next-generation tooling and frameworks, and mentoring engineers across multi-location teams.

Key Responsibilities

Define next-generation AI development tooling and frameworks
Drive architecture, design, and implementation of local development process, build, test, CI/CD systems
Mentor software engineers
Identify opportunities and drive improvements to tooling and processes
Present technical information to teams and stakeholders

Technical Overview

Deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud platforms (AWS), AI tooling (Cursor, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, MS Copilot), and modern web stacks (Node.js, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript); strong CI/CD and deployment practices.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a senior staff software engineer with 8+ years building AI developer tooling, strong distributed systems experience, and deep expertise in CI/CD and cloud platforms (AWS preferred).

Must-Have Skills

8+ years of full-time engineering experienceExperience in buildtestor CI/CD systemsExtensive experience defining and evangelizing best-practices for AI development toolsExperience with distributed systems and public cloud platforms (AWS preferred)Experience configuringtestingand enabling MCP serversAI agentsIndependent ownership of successful engineering projectsStrong communication and collaboration skillsExperience with TerraformDockerKubernetesNodeJSNextJSTypeScriptJavaScriptFluent with modern web frameworks

Nice-to-Have Skills

Experience scaling products at hyper-growth startupsExperience with modern build systems like BazelBuckPants

Tools & Platforms

CursorClaude CodeOpenAI CodexMicrosoft CopilotNodeJSNextJSJavaScriptTypeScriptPythonDockerKubernetesTerraformCircleCIArgoCDAWSAmazon Web Services

Required Skills

staff software engineerai developer toolingnodejsnextjsjavascripttypescriptpythonci/cdcircleciargocdkubernetesdockerterraformamazon web servicesawsopenai codexclaude codecursormicrosoft copilot

Hard Skills

CursorClaude CodeOpenAI CodexMicrosoft CopilotNodeJSNextJSJavaScriptTypeScriptPythonDockerKubernetesTerraformCircleCIArgoCDCI/CDAWSAmazon Web ServicesAmazon Web ServicesOpenAIDistributed systems

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationleadershipownershipproblem-solving

Industry & Role

Industry SaaS

Job Function Lead AI developer tooling and platform engineering for scalable AI-enabled software

Role Subtype Automation Engineer

Tech Domains Node.js, Next.js, TypeScript, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Amazon Web Services, OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, CI/CD

Keywords for Your Resume

Staff Software EngineerAI Developer ToolingCursorClaude CodeOpenAI CodexMicrosoft CopilotNodeJSNextJSJavaScriptTypeScriptPythonCI/CDCircleCIArgoCDKubernetesDockerTerraformAmazon Web ServicesAWSDistributed systemsNode.jsNext.js

Deal Breakers

8+ years of engineering experience, Lack of AI development tooling experience, Lack of distributed systems experience, Inability to work with multi-location teams

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