SoSafe

Staff Engineer (IT Automation & AI-native Transformation)

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1 month ago
Remote, United Kingdom +8 moreStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Architect, build, and iterate an automation and AI toolchain combining traditional productivity tools, spec-driven design, and agentic workflows.
  • Test automation and AI platforms with IT and Security teams, gather feedback, and improve the platform.
  • Enable teams and departments to adopt automation platforms, self-built AI agents, and standardized engineering practices.
  • Drive the evolution of IT operations toward an infrastructure-as-code model through hands-on architecture and design.
  • Contribute to the IT/Security operating model and support the transition toward build-not-buy teams.
  • Mentor and develop the IT engineering team and provide technical guidance to non-technical citizen builders and stakeholders.
  • Champion cross-departmental adoption of shared automation and AI platforms while reducing operational silos.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated experience operating at Staff Engineer level, ideally in a successful cloud-native hypergrowth SaaS environment.
  • Hands-on coding and systems-thinking experience, ideally from a platform or Site Reliability Engineering team.
  • Track record of adopting AI-native workflows and turning experimental prompts into robust, production-grade automated workflows or agents.
  • Deep technical mastery in some combination of infrastructure-as-code, modern CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions, and enterprise workflow orchestration such as n8n or Zapier.
  • Ability to design hybrid architectures that balance agentic-workflow flexibility with utilization costs and financial efficiency.
  • Strong leadership, stakeholder-management, and communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to citizen coders and executives.

Benefits

  • Flexible hours and 33 vacation days.
  • Access to Open Up and corporate discounts.
  • Virtual events, collaborative team activities, and local meet-ups.
  • Tech equipment, referral bonuses, and a dog-friendly headquarters.
  • Supportive IT and Security team, work-life balance, and mental-health focus.
  • Benefits are for full-time employees and may vary slightly by office location.

Tech Stack

GitHub Actions
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501-1,000 employees
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