Staff Software Engineer, Internal Services

Agility Robotics•Salem, OR

31d•Remote

About The Position

Join the team building the internal platforms and developer experience that power engineering across Agility. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will architect and own the foundational tools and services that make engineers more productive, from company-wide command-line tooling to self-service abstractions of infrastructure, networking, and identity. You will be one of the first dedicated hires focused on internal services and developer experience, responsible for designing and delivering frameworks that every engineer uses daily. Your work will empower software, data, and robotics teams to focus on building products without wrestling with low-level infrastructure. Projects may range from routing and IAM services that underpin secure and reliable platforms, to services and tooling that connect engineers seamlessly to our fleet of robots and IoT devices.

Requirements

8+ years of software engineering experience, with a demonstrated track record of building developer-facing tools (CLIs, SDKs, APIs, automation frameworks).
Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or similar languages.
Experience designing frameworks or extensible systems.
Ability to gather requirements, communicate trade-offs, and drive adoption of internal solutions.
Strong collaboration skills and ability to influence without authority across multiple engineering domains.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with infrastructure tooling (Terraform, Kubernetes) or networking concepts (DNS, VPCs, routing).
Experience with identity and access management (IAM) systems or security-focused platform services.
Experience with developer onboarding, productivity tooling, or security workflows.
Background in developer platforms or internal DX initiatives.
Experience building microservices for IoT or connected devices, particularly where security, reliability, and real-time constraints are important.
Contributions to open source developer tools.

Responsibilities

Define the long-term vision for internal tooling, services, and developer experience, ensuring alignment with company goals and engineering best practices.
Deliver a roadmap for a company-wide CLI framework, shared tooling, and platform services (e.g., routing, IAM), enabling consistent, secure, and extensible workflows across engineering teams.
Partner with platform, security, application, and robotics engineers to understand needs and translate infrastructure complexity into intuitive workflows.
Design and implement a CLI harness and plugin framework that teams can extend for their own use cases (e.g., onboarding, secrets, robot access).
Build self-service abstractions for infrastructure and networking (e.g., simplifying Terraform configs into easy-to-use APIs or commands).
Design and maintain shared services like routing, IAM, and internal API gateways that support reliability and scale.
Establish standards for tooling ergonomics, security, and reliability.
Create libraries, SDKs, and automation frameworks to unify workflows across teams.
Drive adoption of internal tools by treating engineers as your "customers" and iterating based on feedback.
Mentor engineers and influence the broader developer platform roadmap.
Champion best practices in developer experience and internal platform design.