Staff Engineer - Developer Productivity
About The Position
Our client is a high-growth B2B SaaS company that is building a modern data activation and AI-driven decisioning platform. This platform is utilized by hundreds of enterprise customers globally, powering large-scale marketing, data, and AI workflows. The company operates at a massive scale with a rapidly expanding engineering organization of over 50 engineers who continuously ship into production. The engineering team is recognized for its high talent density, strong ownership culture, and dedication to building performant, scalable systems across distributed cloud environments. Having achieved over $100M+ ARR, the company is rapidly scaling across various product lines and geographies. This Staff Engineer role is pivotal to engineering velocity, directly responsible for how 50+ engineers build, test, and ship software daily.
Requirements
- 8–15 years of experience in backend or developer productivity engineering
- Strong experience in developer tooling, build systems, or monorepo infrastructure
- Experience working in engineering organizations scaling from ~40 to 100+ engineers
- Deep expertise in TypeScript / JavaScript ecosystems
- Strong systems design fundamentals and understanding of distributed system behavior
- Hands-on experience improving CI/CD pipelines, build performance, or developer workflows
- Experience implementing or scaling tools like TurboRepo, Bazel, or Nx
- Strong CS fundamentals (degree in CS/CE preferred from top universities)
- Experience at high-growth startups or top-tier engineering organizations
Nice To Haves
- Experience at companies like Vercel, Stripe, Databricks, Plaid, Ironclad, etc.
- Background in developer platforms, build systems, or internal tooling teams
- Experience working on multi-cloud or multi-region distributed systems
- Exposure to event-driven architectures or large-scale backend systems
- Prior experience owning engineering productivity across multiple teams
- Strong ability to influence engineering culture and technical direction
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end developer experience across build, test, and deployment systems for a large engineering organization
- Lead the evolution of a large JavaScript/TypeScript monorepo used by 50+ engineers
- Reduce build and CI times through tooling, caching, and architectural improvements
- Implement and scale modern monorepo tooling (e.g., TurboRepo, Bazel, Nx)
- Improve testing infrastructure, visibility, and reliability across multiple engineering teams
- Design systems to improve developer iteration speed and reduce cross-team blocking dependencies
- Own observability and operational excellence across build/test/deploy pipelines
- Support multi-region and multi-cloud infrastructure used in production systems
- Partner closely with product engineering teams to identify friction points in development workflows
- Drive engineering-wide standards for code quality, testing, and release processes
- Act as a force multiplier for engineering productivity across the org
Benefits
- Competitive base salary: $180,000 – $320,000
- Meaningful equity package
- Remote (US & Canada) flexibility
- High ownership role with org-wide impact
- Opportunity to define developer productivity for a fast-scaling engineering org
- Direct visibility with engineering leadership
- High-impact systems used across the entire engineering organization
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Number of Employees
1-10 employees
