Staff Engineer, AI Developer Experience

Accountabilities

• Lead the strategy and evolution of AI-powered developer experience, enabling engineering teams to safely and effectively integrate AI throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Evaluate, implement, and govern AI development tools, including code generation, intelligent assistants, and agent-based workflows, while establishing standards and best practices.
• Optimize developer productivity by improving build performance, testing workflows, linting, type checking, task orchestration, and overall engineering efficiency across TypeScript/Node.js and Python environments.
• Maintain and improve local and cloud-based development environments, ensuring consistency, security, scalability, and reproducibility across projects.
• Own and enhance shared developer libraries, internal frameworks, configuration systems, documentation, and onboarding resources.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, software development lifecycle improvements, dependency management, observability, and platform reliability initiatives.
• Mentor engineers, gather continuous feedback, influence engineering practices, and drive long-term improvements across the development organization.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant work in developer tooling, platform engineering, or developer productivity.
• Deep expertise in TypeScript/Node.js and Python ecosystems, including package management, build systems, tooling, and debugging complex development environments.
• Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and maintaining containerized development environments using devcontainers or comparable solutions.
• Practical experience evaluating and integrating AI development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, OpenAI, Cursor, Codex, or similar platforms, with a focus on governance and secure adoption.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and technical leadership skills, with the ability to influence teams and drive cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience with AI workflow automation, Model Context Protocol (MCP), AI security, secure execution environments, cloud-based development platforms, or remote development environments is considered an advantage.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary ranging from $170,000 to $220,000 USD, based on experience, skills, and location.
• An annual target bonus of 15% of base salary.
• A long-term incentive program tied to company performance and growth.
• A fully remote work environment with a home office setup allowance.
• Flexible paid time off with a strong emphasis on work-life balance.
• Parental leave benefits and a family-first workplace culture.
• A comprehensive health and wellness benefits package.
• A 401(k) retirement plan with employer contributions.
• Opportunity to collaborate with a passionate, mission-driven remote engineering team.
• Professional growth opportunities within an innovative, AI-focused engineering environment.