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Thumbtack

Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience

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2 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
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Base Salary

$179k - $273k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and deploy agentic developer workflows using Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, skills, plugins, and MCP servers.
  • Develop self-service workflows in the Backstage developer portal, developer CLI, IDE integrations, and an agent development framework.
  • Own and evolve the Cloud Development Environment platform for human developers and AI agents.
  • Improve organization-wide build systems, CI/CD pipelines, test infrastructure, and observability.
  • Evaluate emerging AI developer tools and determine how to adopt, configure, and scale them across the engineering organization.

Requirements

  • Experience building developer infrastructure, Developer Experience, or platform tools used by other engineers at 100-plus-engineer scale.
  • Strong systems thinking across build pipelines, CI/CD, development environments, and test infrastructure.
  • A UX mindset focused on personas, journeys, and end-to-end workflows for human and AI users.
  • Hands-on experience with agentic developer tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex, including opinions on their limitations and scalability.
  • Fluency in Go and Python for CLIs, services, MCP servers, and Slackbots, plus TypeScript and React for web interfaces.
  • Six or more years of industry software engineering experience, including cross-team projects with measurable engineering productivity impact.