Staff Software Engineer, Altana

• 5+ years of experience spanning software engineering and infrastructure, with a focus on developer tooling, platform engineering, or DevOps
• Strong software engineering fundamentals—you can design well-architected systems, not just scripts and glue code
• Deep experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab CI, or similar) and understanding of how to scale them
• Proficiency in Golang and/or Python for automation and tooling development
• Experience working with monorepo architectures and the challenges they present at scale
• Production experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and understanding of cloud-native patterns
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Ability to design patterns that work consistently across multiple environments with varying constraints
• Deep understanding of build systems, dependency management, and strategies for optimizing build performance
• Developer empathy—you understand that fast feedback loops drive productivity and you're motivated by making other engineers more effective
• Self-directed and independent, thriving in fast-moving environments with evolving requirements
• Excellent problem-solving skills and comfort debugging complex systems across application and infrastructure layers
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, comfortable working with technical teams to understand requirements and design solutions

Desirable

• The Developer Experience team owns the infrastructure and tooling that our engineering organization uses every day: our monorepo, our CI/CD platform, and the day-to-day experience of working within our codebase
• As a Staff Software Engineer on this team, you'll be responsible for ensuring developers have fast, reliable, and frictionless workflows—from the moment they clone the repo to when their code ships to production
• Altana operates across a multi-cloud environment that's evolving rapidly, with deployments spanning commercial and government-compliant contexts. You'll design patterns and tooling that work consistently across these varied environments while maintaining the flexibility to move quickly
• This role sits at the intersection of software engineering and infrastructure—you'll need to think like an application developer, reason about distributed systems, and understand cloud platforms deeply
• You'll work closely with engineering teams across Altana to understand their pain points, identify opportunities for improvement, and build tooling that multiplies developer productivity
• Success in this role means faster builds, tighter feedback loops, and engineers who can focus on solving problems rather than fighting their tools
• Optimize build performance and CI/CD pipeline efficiency, reducing build times and improving reliability
• Design and implement improvements to pre-commit testing, PR status checks, and code review workflows in our monorepo
• Architect and build internal tooling, CLIs, and automation that streamline common developer tasks—with attention to maintainability and extensibility
• Design patterns and abstractions that work consistently across our multi-cloud environment, including deployments with heightened security requirements
• Improve local development environments, ensuring engineers can iterate quickly with minimal friction
• Instrument and monitor developer workflows to identify bottlenecks, then drive measurable improvements
• Collaborate with engineering teams to understand their needs and translate them into platform capabilities
• Document best practices, create onboarding materials, and support engineers in adopting new tools and workflows
• Evaluate and integrate new technologies that improve developer productivity, build reliability, or operational efficiency
• Contribute to the evolution of our monorepo strategy, including code organization, dependency management, and testing patterns
• Technologies We Love:
• Languages: Python, TypeScript, Go
• CI/CD: Buildkite, GitHub Actions
• Source Control: GitHub Enterprise Cloud, monorepo tooling
• Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform
• Observability: Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana