Staff Software Engineer, ZenBusiness
Developer Platform & AI Tooling
+ Equity
All-in-one business products & service platform
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All-in-one business products & service platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To enable anyone to start, run, and grow their business while avoiding the common pitfalls that derail hopeful entrepreneurs.
Role
Who you are
- Staff-level impact building platform capabilities with clear outcomes in developer velocity, reliability, and/or quality
- Deep experience in one or more of the following and working knowledge of the rest:
- CI/CD systems and reusable pipeline components (e.g., GitHub Actions or similar)
- Kubernetes, Helm, GitOps (e.g., ArgoCD), and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform)
- AI for engineering: prompt design, multi-agent orchestration, safety/guardrails, and integrating LLMs into code and review workflows
- Data and analytics for platform decisions (e.g., Python/Node-based ETL, SQL/warehouses, lightweight dashboards)
- Proficiency in at least two languages used for platform work (e.g., Python, TypeScript/Node.js, Bash); comfortable moving across stacks to ship end-to-end solutions
- Strong security and reliability instincts (secrets, least privilege, dependency hygiene, runtime hardening)
- Clear, concise written communication – from crisp docs and service manuals to guides that accelerate adoption across the team
- Able to communicate effectively with a diverse team and external stakeholders; actively listens and ensures shared understanding
What the job involves
- You'll help shape the future of how engineers build, ship, and operate software. We're hiring a Staff Software Engineer
- To contribute to platform-wide initiatives across CI/CD, Kubernetes, and developer experience – with a strong
- Emphasis on building and integrating AI tooling into everyday engineering workflows
- Design, build, and scale AI-powered developer tooling:
- Agentic coding and review workflows that use LLMs to analyze code, generate changes, and
- Collaborate via chat
- Policy- and guardrail-aware assistants that can comment, propose code changes, and safely
- Automate repetitive tasks
- Prompt libraries, instructions, and service manuals that make AI adoption effective and safe across teams
- Contribute to the evolution of our CI/CD platform to be faster, more observable, and easier to adopt:
- Build analytics and data pipelines to compare platform performance, baselines, and regressions
- Contribute insights that inform team-level improvements and broader platform decisions
- Strengthen platform reliability and security in Kubernetes:
- Improve cluster/app resiliency, rollout strategies, and priority classes for critical services
- Standardize Helm chart patterns, deployment practices, and IaC workflows
- Contribute to incident response playbooks, maintenance modes, and recovery patterns
- Create paved paths and golden templates for developers:
- Self-service software templates, CLI/automation enhancements, and bootstrap flows
- Clear docs, runbooks, and technical blogs that drive adoption and reduce support load
- Mentor and grow:
- Pair with teammates to land complex changes, champion TDD and code review quality, and uplevel practices within the team
- Anticipate and surface blockers, delays, and tradeoffs before they require escalation – keeping stakeholders informed and expectations aligned
- How we'll measure success
- Faster, more reliable delivery pipelines and higher adoption of paved paths
- Measurable improvements to build/test times, failure triage, and developer feedback cycles
- AI tools that engineers choose to use – with clear quality, speed, and safety wins
- Repeatable templates and docs that reduce bespoke work and support burden
- Proactive communication that keeps projects on track and stakeholders aligned without escalation
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions (reusable actions, org-wide workflows), artifact management, quality gates
- Platform: Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD/GitOps, Terraform/IaC, service configuration patterns
- AI: agentic developer tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, etc.), multi-agent workflows, prompt libraries, and guardrail frameworks
- Data: Python or Node.js for ETL and analysis; SQL/warehouse for build/run analytics and reporting
Our take
Many aspiring entrepreneurs have ideas for starting a business, but getting an idea off the ground can be difficult without the right expertise. Bureaucracy and filing prevent many people from starting their business to begin with; while compliance, banking and accounting present further challenges for the business to grow past its initial creation.
ZenBusiness provides an all-in-one business product and service platform, helping entrepreneurs to create an LLC by handling filing options, business registration, and the creation of EINs. Once a business is created, the company supports it by taking care of compliance, business banking, taxes, accounting and domain name registration - helping clients grow their businesses with ease.
Whilst business creation and growth services are nothing new, such solutions are usually fragmented, resulting in entrepreneurs juggling an overwhelming number of services. By providing an all-in-one platform, ZenBusiness aims to eliminate this problem, a worthwhile undertaking which has seen the company rise to a $1.7 billion valuation in five years.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Sep 2022
$2.5m
LATE VC
Dec 2021
$3.5m
LATE VC
Total funding: $281.7m
Company benefits
- A fully-remote company based in Austin, Texas
- Flexible vacation and time off policy
- Paid holidays
- Employee assistance programs
- Stock options
- Medical, dental, vision & disability insurance
Company HQ
Mccarty Triangle, Austin, TX
Leadership
Ross Buhrdorf
(CEO & Co-founder)Experience as CTO and VP of Development of Salion from 2000 to 2004. CTO of HomeAway.com from 2005 to 2015.
Shanaz Hemmati
(Executive Advisor & Co-founder)Experience as Database Architect for Surgient. Database Architect and Global VP of Information System for HomeAway.com from 2006 to 2016.
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