Staff Engineer, Developer

Summary

The job is for a Developer Experience Engineer at Stack, a company focused on AI advancements. The role involves developing and maintaining infrastructure, working with other teams, implementing metrics systems, identifying inefficiencies, documenting solutions, participating in code reviews, staying up-to-date with the latest developments in build systems and devtools, and helping build a culture of software engineering excellence.

Requirements

• Strong customer-oriented development approach
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with software engineers and other stakeholders
• Experience with Bazel is a huge plus
• Experience with CI/CD systems at scale is highly desired
• Fluent in modern programming languages such as Python, C++, Go, Java, or Rust
• Track record of gathering developer pain points and translating to robust developer solutions that improve speed and effectiveness
• Developed and shipped developer-facing products for software engineering efforts
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and optimize our build and devtools infrastructure
• Work side by side with engineers on other teams to understand their needs and to help automate, verify, or accelerate common time-consuming tasks
• Implement and track metrics systems to drive development and to ensure that internal SLAs are met
• Proactively identify and prioritize inefficiencies in the developer experience, and solicit feedback from others across the org
• Document and message out new solutions as they are implemented
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to the development of our software projects
• Stay up to date with the latest developments in build systems and devtools, and help drive the adoption of new technologies that make the team more efficient
• Help build a culture of software engineering excellence and learning