Senior/Lead Software Engineer, Developer Productivity (AI Tooling)
InformaticaBase Salary
$149k - $286k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical design and delivery of cross-cutting developer-productivity capabilities across desktop applications, backend services, data and analytics platforms, governance workflows, and AI coding tool integrations.
- Build backend APIs, data models, ingestion flows, dashboards, and user experiences connecting AI tool usage to actionable engineering outcomes.
- Set technical direction, translate ambiguous requirements into design and delivery plans, and partner with product and engineering stakeholders on priorities and feasibility.
- Establish telemetry, SLIs and SLOs, controlled rollouts, playbooks, and long-term ownership practices while leading incident investigation and root-cause analysis when needed.
- Build and ship secure, optimized, production-grade software while using AI development tools and designing systems where AI agents support human workflows.
- Improve team technical quality through design and code reviews, coaching, pairing, delegation, and accountability for technical outcomes.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience designing and building production software, including full-stack applications, backend services, developer tools, or internal platforms.
- Strong programming experience across frontend, backend, APIs, data stores, and distributed system boundaries.
- Experience taking ambiguous product or platform requirements through design, implementation, testing, rollout, and production ownership.
- Ability to communicate designs clearly, make technical tradeoffs, influence stakeholders, and lead complex cross-team work.
- Demonstrated AI-first engineering approach using tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, or Cursor.
- Advanced prompt engineering skills and the ability to create precise prompts and reliable system context for secure, production-ready AI outputs.
- A related technical degree is required.
- Preferred experience includes developer tools, AI coding integrations, internal platforms, telemetry systems, enterprise desktop applications, React, TypeScript, Go, service APIs, event pipelines, analytics systems, and cloud or Kubernetes-based services.
Benefits
- Benefits include time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.
- The stated base salary range is $148,500–$260,100 annually, or $178,900–$285,800 annually in select San Francisco and New York City metropolitan areas; bonus, equity, and benefits may be separate.
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About Informatica
Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, helps businesses unlock the full value of their data and AI. As data grows in complexity and volume, Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ delivers a complete, end-to-end platform with a suite of industry-leading, integrated solutions to connect, manage and unify data across any cloud, hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Powered by CLAIRE® AI, Informatica’s platform integrates natively with all major cloud providers, data warehouses and analytics tools— giving organizations the freedom of choice, avoiding vendor lock-in and delivering better ROI by enabling access to governed data, simplifying operations and scaling with confidence. Trusted by approximately 5,000 customers in nearly 100 countries—including over 80 of the Fortune 100—Informatica is the backbone of platform-agnostic, cloud data-driven transformation. Informatica. Where data and AI come to life.™ Contact: PR@informatica.com