Staff Runtime Engineer

Summary

Join Netlify as a Framework Runtime Engineer and contribute to our open-source projects, including the Next.js runtime and Netlify CLI. You will bridge the gap between the developer community and our platform, collaborating with framework maintainers and internal teams. Your responsibilities include diving into our codebase, driving innovation in frontend framework support, performing complex debugging, and engaging with other teams. You will also advocate for best practices, collaborate with the developer community, and deliver product features. This role requires strong frontend framework expertise, TypeScript/JavaScript skills, and experience with developer tools. The position offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• Strong expertise in frontend frameworks and their ecosystems is essential, with several years of experience in developing production-level TypeScript / JavaScript-centered projects
• Experience in building solid developer tools using JavaScript runtimes such as Node, Deno, or Bun and TypeScript and an interest in building tooling that makes the lives of millions of developers and enterprises easier
• Experience or significant interest in interacting with open-source communities, triaging issues, and contributing to open-source projects
• An extensive history of delivering product features & deploying services with a high level of comfort iterating on a system while it is constantly serving traffic
• Familiarity with build systems, CI, and open source metrics
• Ability to analyze logs, follow traces, debug complex systems
• Demonstrated pattern of delivering high-quality, reliable, testable, and performant code
• Curiosity and openness to learning new technologies and best practices
• Passion for working in a collaborative environment, where you enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different expertise working across distributed locations around the world and a deep appreciation for documentation and asynchronous communication practices
• A desire to reduce complexity, increasing efficiency and supportability of our software
• Strong, proactive communication skills, both in technical explanation and sharing of work, with a passion for teaching and helping others learn
• Proactive and solution-oriented mindset, with a bias for action

Responsibilities

• Dive deeply into our codebase and become familiar with our framework runtimes. You’ll be using your extensive TypeScript knowledge and technical breadth to ship clean, quality code and follow modern TypeScript conventions
• Drive innovation to provide the best possible support of frontend frameworks on our platform
• Perform deep investigations and complex debugging on external codebases, digging into complex interactions between frameworks and our platform
• Participate in research into the functionality of frontend frameworks, seeking to understand use cases in order to better support our users
• Regularly engage with other teams, working to drive the roadmap across the organization to enable frameworks on our platform to leverage platform primitives like caching and cloud storage
• Be an advocate for development best practices, helping the team to iterate on our framework testing strategies
• Collaborate with framework authors and the developer community and actively participate in discussions to improve our developer tools
• Consistently deliver product features within your team and own the systems from beginning to end, including expanding functionality, testing and debugging, investigating production issues, and shipping code that directly impacts important user experience and business metrics
• With over 10% of Internet users visiting at least one site hosted by Netlify every 30 days, you’ll be well-versed in designing for scale to enable the performance of our systems
• You’ll be partnering closely with other cross-functional peers, including Product Managers, Designers, Documentation, and Support to broaden your connections across the organization and enable significant organizational impact
• Establish strong async communication rhythms with your peers and leaders, practicing transparency and visibility in your progress against areas of focus
• Join the on-call rotation and help the team pay down technical debt and improve reliability

Preferred Qualifications

• Bonus but not required - experience in Go and/or Ruby
• An interest in reverse engineering, and a strong drive to discover how things work. You’ll have a strong appetite for learning

Benefits

• Our base compensation for this role is targeted at £100,000 - £136,000 for most UK-based locations
• Robust benefits
• Participation in Netlify’s equity plan