Senior Software Engineer II – AI Developer Experience

Optro

Senior Software Engineer II developing AI tooling and enhancing developer experience at Optro. Leading technical research and platform development for AI integration into engineering workflows.

Posted 5/20/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $156,000 - $214,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

JavaScriptNode.jsShell ScriptingTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Develop within SATL: Architect and build core workflows, hooks, and services within the Shared AI Tooling Layer (SATL) to integrate off-the-shelf LLMs deeply into our engineering environment.
Lead Technical Scouting & Prototyping: Continuously research, prototype, and evaluate rapid advancements in the AI developer-tooling space (e.g., new LLM APIs, agentic orchestration, context-management protocols, and IDE integrations). Strategically define which technologies are ready for platform-level adoption and which are distractions to be safely ignored.
Expand the SATL Platform: Design, scale, and maintain the shared foundation of SATL for distributing and managing AI tool configurations, establishing a highly reliable, performant framework for shared rules, skills, lifecycle hooks, and MCP configurations across developer environments.
Build Safe Execution Environments: Create the runtime guardrails, permission scoping, and execution sandbox patterns required for safe, programmatic codebase modifications.
Architect Platform Observability: Build telemetry systems that track automated tooling interactions, token consumption, and execution paths, providing visibility into programmatic contributions.
Track Tooling Utility: Establish the infrastructure to measure the quality and impact of automated contributions (e.g., analyzing automated PR success rates) to shape our platform roadmap.
Strategic Partnership: Collaborate closely with platform, security, and developer infrastructure stakeholders to align automation guardrails, security baselines, and developer-facing APIs across PED.

Requirements

What you’ll need

6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a solid history of building internal developer platforms, developer tools, or shared API infrastructure.
AI Tooling Extension: Hands-on experience building with or extending developer-facing AI tools (such as designing custom CLI helpers, building developer integrations, or creating Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers).
Practical LLM Integration: Substantial hands-on experience working with LLM APIs, building system prompts, and orchestrating stateful programmatic workflows.
Technical Mastery: Deep proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js, combined with expert-level comfort writing shell scripting and building CLI tooling.
Evaluative Rigor & Signal Filtering: Proven expertise in critically evaluating emerging technical architectures, bypassing marketing hype, and making pragmatic, evidence-based recommendations on tooling adoption.
Platform Mindset: Strong architectural instinct for designing clean, extensible abstractions and APIs that other developers (and automated scripts) can reliably consume.
Communication & Influence: A collaborative track record of driving technical alignment and platform adoption across a 300+ person organization through empathy, clear evidence, and EDD (Engineering Design Doc)-driven alignment.
Comfort with Ambiguity: Adaptive and proactive in the face of rapidly evolving developer tooling, with a history of adapting and leading through technical uncertainty.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Offers Bonus
15% Annual Target Bonus

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Hard Skills & Tools

TypeScriptNode.jsshell scriptingCLI toolingLLM APIsModel Context Protocol (MCP)programmatic workflowstelemetry systemsautomated PR success ratesdeveloper-facing APIs

Soft Skills

communicationinfluencecollaborationevaluative rigorsignal filteringadaptabilityproactivitytechnical alignmentempathyleadership