Staff Software Engineer – Developer Experience

FloQast

Staff Software Engineer responsible for enhancing CI/CD platforms and infrastructure workflows at FloQast. Design and mentor teams for optimized software delivery processes.

Posted 7/6/2026full-timeSan Jose • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $164,000 - $246,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSEC2GrafanaTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Elevate engineering productivity at scale by designing, standardizing, and evolving our CI/CD platforms and infrastructure workflows.
Sit at the intersection of platform engineering and developer enablement, primarily focusing on modern CI/CD systems and infrastructure as code using Terraform.
Define standards, reduce friction in the software delivery lifecycle, and create self-service infrastructure patterns that scale across teams.
Partner with engineering leadership and cross-functional teams to ensure the software development lifecycle is secure, automated, observable, and optimized for speed and reliability.
Mentor senior engineers and influence architectural decisions across the organization.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

Medical
Dental
Vision
Family Forming benefits
Life & Disability Insurance
Unlimited Vacation

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Hard Skills & Tools

CI/CD SystemsTerraformAWSGitHub ActionsInfrastructure as CodeAutomationObservabilityPipeline OptimizationArtifact ManagementSecrets Handling

Soft Skills

MentoringCollaborationInfluencing Technical Direction