Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

About the role

We're seeking a Senior/Staff Engineer to build and maintain the automation infrastructure that powers the development cycles of our North platform. This role sits at the intersection of infrastructure and standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement automation pipelines that support comprehensive testing across multiple environments with varying feature flags and realistic customer data profiles
• Create intelligent testing agents that simulate real user behavior to validate different configuration combinations
• Develop and maintain GitHub workflows and actions to automate testing, deployment, and validation processes
• Manage and optimize Helm charts for deployment consistency across environments
• Implement and maintain ArgoCD workflows for continuous deployment and environment management
• Establish best practices for testing methodologies and ensure adoption across engineering teams
• Build scalable infrastructure that supports parallel test execution across diverse configurations
• Create infrastructure-as-code templates and configurations for reproducible test environments
• Implement containerization strategies for test environments and dependencies
• Create benchmarking frameworks to measure performance and reliability across different configurations
• Monitor and improve test coverage and reliability metrics
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to understand testing requirements and translate them into automated solutions
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex testing infrastructure issues

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on automation and testing infrastructure
• Expert proficiency in Python and TypeScript
• Extensive experience with GitHub workflows and actions
• Deep understanding of testing methodologies and best practices
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Containerization experience (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Benchmarking experience and performance testing methodologies
• Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Background in developer tools or platform engineering
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with LLMs in production environments
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code principles
• Experience with container orchestration and management
• Knowledge of performance testing tools and frameworks
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools
• Experience with test framework development
• Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar)