Build the platforms behind agentic developer workflows: roll out the tools the org builds on (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) and ship the skills, plugins, and MCP servers that run across them.

Design and build the product surfaces engineers and AI agents reach for daily: self-service workflows in our Backstage developer portal, our developer CLI, IDE integrations, and the framework engineers use to build and deploy their own agents.

Own and evolve our Cloud Development Environment (CDE) platform for both human developers and AI agents.

Improve the build systems, CI/CD pipelines, test infrastructure, and observability the whole org depends on.

Prototype and evaluate new AI developer tools as they land, and decide what to adopt, configure, and scale across the engineering org.

In order to be successful, you must bring

Demonstrated experience building developer infrastructure, DevEx, or platform tools that other engineers depend on, from CDE rollouts and internal CLIs to MCP servers and build/CI at 100+ engineer scale.

Strong systems thinking: you reason about build pipelines, CI/CD, dev environments, and test infrastructure as interconnected systems, not isolated tools.

A UX mindset applied to engineering systems: you think in personas, journeys, and end-to-end workflows, and design for the people and agents who use what you build.

Hands-on experience with agentic developer tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex, and considered opinions about their limits, where they help, and how to scale their use.

Fluency in the languages our tooling is built in: Go and Python for CLIs, services, MCP servers, and Slackbots, plus TypeScript and React for the web UIs.

6+ years of industry experience in software engineering, including cross-team projects with measurable impact on engineering productivity.

Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Responsibilities

Qualification

Required

Company

Thumbtack

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