Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

About the role

Attentive’s Developer Experience team owns the infrastructure and tooling that 200+ engineers use every day to build and ship software across our Java/Spring Boot Gradle monorepo running on AWS. The team’s charter spans CI/CD, local development tooling, service scaffolding and conventions, CLI tooling, test infrastructure, and the AI integration layer that powers modern software development workflows.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical strategy for Attentive’s AI-assisted developer experience platform, including context systems, orchestration layers, and developer tooling integrations
• Lead architecture decisions and author RFCs/ADRs that shape developer infrastructure and platform standards across the engineering organization
• Build and evolve systems that improve developer productivity, code quality, and engineering velocity across a large-scale monorepo environment
• Improve the reliability, scalability, and usability of local development environments, CI/CD systems, and internal developer tooling
• Partner directly with engineers and teams across the organization to identify bottlenecks, gather feedback, and drive adoption of new tooling and platform capabilities
• Mentor engineers on technical design, architecture, documentation, and platform engineering best practices
• Lead cross-functional collaboration around engineering standards, developer workflows, and AI-assisted development practices

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience building and operating large-scale developer platforms, CI/CD systems, or internal engineering productivity tooling
• 4+ years of experience working with build systems and continuous integration platforms such as Gradle, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Bazel, Buildkite, or similar technologies
• 4+ years of experience designing and scaling developer infrastructure within large monorepo or distributed service environments
• Proficiency in TypeScript and hands-on experience building systems in Java and/or Python
• 1+ years of hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tooling, coding agents, context systems, MCP integrations, or related developer AI workflows
• Strong architectural and systems design skills, including experience authoring RFCs, ADRs, and cross-team technical proposals
• Demonstrated ability to operate in ambiguous problem spaces and independently define technical roadmaps and investment priorities
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence engineers and stakeholders across varying technical domains
• Passion for developer productivity, platform ergonomics, and building systems that scale both technically and organizationally

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Java and/or Python
• Experience with CI/CD platforms such as CircleCI, GitHub Actions, or similar
• Experience with large-scale monorepo or distributed service environments
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools and workflows
• Experience with TypeScript and internal CLI tooling, service scaffolding, deployment tooling, troubleshooting utilities, and local development infrastructure
• Experience with Snowflake, Meltano/Singer pipelines, deterministic ID transformation, PII scrubbing, and referential integrity preservation
• Experience with parallel test execution and distributed build workflows
• Experience with AI-powered PR review workflows and guardrails designed to make AI-assisted development reliable at scale
• Experience with Agile methodologies and DevOps principles

Skills

• Strong technical judgment and architectural leadership
• Experience defining and driving technical strategies
• Experience with RFCs, ADRs, and cross-team technical proposals
• Experience with CI/CD platforms and large-scale monorepo environments
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools and workflows
• Experience with TypeScript and internal CLI tooling, service scaffolding, deployment tooling, troubleshooting utilities, and local development infrastructure
• Experience with Snowflake, Meltano/Singer pipelines, deterministic ID transformation, PII scrubbing, and referential integrity preservation
• Experience with parallel test execution and distributed build workflows
• Experience with AI-powered PR review workflows and guardrails designed to make AI-assisted development reliable at scale
• Experience with Agile methodologies and DevOps principles

Benefits

Competitive perks and benefits, from health & wellness to equity, to help you bring your best self to work. For US Based Applicants, the US base salary range for this full-time position is $180,000 - $240,000 annually + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location.