Software Development Engineer Staff

Job Summary

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to own the inner loop of our developer platform the scaffolding environment bootstrap and shared library systems that determine how fast and confidently engineers go from idea to first commit. This role is foundational: the composable scaffolding engine declarative service schemas and template lifecycle systems you build will directly determine whether developers experience a golden path or a maze of tribal knowledge and configuration drift.

You will design and ship opinionated production-grade tooling that generates repositories CI pipelines baseline tests and infrastructure hooks from a single schema declaration and maintain those templates safely over time as the platform evolves. This is not a role for someone who has used golden-path systems; its for someone who has built and operated them at scale.

Responsibilities

Composable Scaffolding Engine

• Design and build the engine that generates repositories CI/CD pipelines baseline tests configuration and platform integrations from declarative service schemas with opinionated defaults and extensibility hooks

• Own the full scaffolding surface: repo generator CI/CD pipeline generator config manager secrets/env var wiring and integration layer into GitHub and cloud providers

• Ensure generated scaffolds are immediately functional wired to CI observability and infra hooks from day one with no blank-page setup required

Declarative Service & Workload Schemas

• Define and maintain the schema specification that captures application type runtime dependencies testing defaults and infrastructure intent in a standardized versioned format

• Build validation tooling (CLI and CI-integrated) to enforce schema correctness and surface errors early

• Reduce time-to-first-commit from the current 1840 day range to under one week

Template Lifecycle Management

• Build the versioning validation and upgrade system that evolves scaffolds over time while preserving backward compatibility for downstream projects

• Implement three-way merge logic (template old template new customized service) with rollback safety and customization detection so teams can adopt template updates without breaking builds

Local Dev & Environment Bootstrap

• Build and maintain standardized local and ephemeral development environment descriptors (devcontainers Docker Compose golden images) with parity validation against CI and target runtimes

• Implement environment automation: just-in-time provisioning triggered by pull request configuration injection for secrets and service discovery and tear-down automation

• Implement environment health and drift detection to catch works on my machine failures before they reach CI

Reusable Shared Libraries

• Build and maintain versioned shared libraries for cross-cutting concerns logging encryption auto-configuration trace propagation and Docker base images as consumable consistent building blocks for all application teams

• Ensure libraries are secure from inception and reduce fragmentation in security posture and reliability across the service ecosystem

Technical

• Production experience building developer platform tooling repo generators CI/CD scaffolding frameworks devcontainer or ephemeral environment automation not just consuming them

• Strong in Go or Python; deep fluency with GitHub Actions for CI/CD pipeline generation and automation

• Hands-on Terraform experience for infrastructure generation and self-service provisioning patterns

• Experience with OPA or equivalent policy-as-code engines integrated into build and deploy workflows

• Strong understanding of container runtimes base image management and environment parity patterns (devcontainers Docker Compose Kubernetes)

• Experience designing and maintaining template lifecycle systems: versioning migration paths backward compatibility rollback safety

• Familiarity with schema validation tooling and CLI-first developer experience design

• Comfortable working across the stack from schema design through to CI integration and portal plugin surfaces

Qualifications

• 7 years of software engineering experience with at least 3 years in a platform engineering or developer experience role at a mid-to-large engineering organization

• Has designed and operated opinionated golden-path systems at scale the kind that hundreds of engineers depend on daily. Background from companies with strong platform cultures (e.g. Spotify Netflix Stripe Uber Airbnb) is strongly preferred

• Track record of reducing developer toil through automation not just documentation or guidelines

• Strong written communication skills this role produces tooling that must be self-explanatory and documentation is part of the deliverable

• Able to work cross-functionally with security CI/CD and application engineering teams to align on standards without creating bottlenecks

• Experience with Backstage or similar developer portal frameworks is a plus

• Familiarity with enterprise compliance requirements (audit trails change evidence vulnerability scanning integration) is a plus