Senior Engineer, Software (R6010)

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate tools and platforms that improve the end-to-end Hivemind developer experience
• Advance local development workflows, devcontainers, internal developer platforms, project templates, and other reusable engineering capabilities
• Bring agentic AI capabilities into developer tools and workflows, evaluating opportunities and turning promising ideas into reliable, practical solutions
• Partner with engineering teams to understand developer needs, identify recurring friction, and create paved paths that improve productivity without limiting appropriate flexibility
• Enable co-development and inner-source collaboration through accessible tooling, documentation, standards, and contribution practices
• Drive adoption of developer tools by working closely with engineers, gathering feedback, providing guidance, and clearly communicating their value
• Own solutions through discovery, design, implementation, testing, deployment, operation, and continuous improvement
• Use DORA metrics, developer feedback, adoption data, and other signals to understand outcomes and guide investment

Job requirements

• 4+ years of software engineering experience or equivalent practical experience
• Demonstrated technical judgment in the design and operation of developer tools, platforms, backend services, APIs, distributed systems, or related production software
• Experience owning software from initial design through deployment, operation, adoption, and continuous improvement
• Systems thinking and the ability to turn recurring or ambiguous developer needs into coherent, reusable solutions
• Strong customer orientation toward internal developers and an interest in understanding and improving how engineering work gets done
• Effective collaboration and communication across engineering teams and organizational stakeholders
• Ability to advocate for new tools and practices, incorporate feedback, and build adoption through influence
• Experience with AWS and cloud-native development practices