
Staff Software Engineer – Developer Experience
FloQast
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Jose • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $164,000 - $246,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Define and execute the long-term strategy for CI/CD across the organization, with primary ownership of our GitHub Actions ecosystem.
- Architect reusable workflow templates, composite actions, and standardized deployment pipelines.
- Establish guardrails for secure, compliant, and scalable build and release processes.
- Drive pipeline performance optimization (build times, caching strategies, parallelization, artifact management).
- Lead the design and evolution of infrastructure modules and patterns built in Terraform.
- Create opinionated, reusable Terraform modules that abstract complexity and enforce best practices.
- Partner with security to embed policy-as-code and compliance automation into infrastructure workflows.
- Enable self-service infrastructure provisioning through standardized pipelines.
- Instrument the software development lifecycle and use data to drive improvements in deployment frequency, lead time, failure rates, and recovery time.
- Introduce automation that eliminates repetitive developer tasks.
- Improve local-to-cloud parity and streamline branch-to-production workflows.
- Champion trunk-based development, release automation, and progressive delivery practices.
- Set CI/CD and infrastructure standards across multiple product lines.
- Lead multi-team initiatives such as pipeline migrations, CI/CD consolidation, and IaC modernization efforts.
- Publish internal documentation, reference architectures, diagrams, and enablement materials.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to engineering leadership on delivery velocity, platform scalability, and developer productivity.
- Embed observability, testing, and rollback strategies directly into pipelines.
- Ensure deployments are resilient, repeatable, and auditable.
- Participate in post-incident reviews with a focus on systemic improvements to tooling and delivery processes.
- Mentor senior engineers and DevOps practitioners in CI/CD architecture and infrastructure as code.
Requirements
- 8–10+ years of experience spanning software engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or developer productivity.
- Deep hands-on expertise with CI/CD systems, especially GitHub Actions (enterprise-scale implementation preferred).
- Strong experience building scalable infrastructure using Terraform (modules, workspaces, state management, policy integration).
- Strong experience working within the AWS ecosystem (e.g., VPC, ECS, EC2, S3, IAM, Lambda, CloudWatch).
- Experience designing secure, scalable pipeline architectures (artifact management, secrets handling, OIDC, ephemeral environments).
- Proven track record of improving engineering productivity through automation and tooling.
- Experience embedding observability and quality gates into CI/CD workflows.
- AI-first thinking applied to pipeline optimization, incident analysis, and developer feedback loops.
- Strong experience with monitoring, metrics, and visualization tools (e.g CloudWatch, Grafana)
- Experience influencing technical direction across multiple teams or domains.
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Family Forming benefits
- Life & Disability Insurance
- Unlimited Vacation
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
CI/CDGitHub ActionsTerraformAWSpipeline architectureautomationobservabilitymonitoringmetricsvisualization
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcollaborationcommunicationstrategic thinkingproblem-solvinginfluencingdocumentation