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Staff Engineer Developer Productivity


Job Location:

San Francisco, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 180000 - 320000
Posted: 11 July 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 8 October 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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Title of Role: Staff Engineer Developer Productivity (Monorepo / Build Systems)

Location: Remote (US or Canada)
Company Stage of Funding: Series C ($1B valuation)
Office Type: Remote (North America)
Salary: $180000 $320000 Competitive Equity

Company Description

Our client is a high-growth B2B SaaS company building a modern data activation and AI-driven decisioning platform used by hundreds of enterprise customers globally.

The company powers large-scale marketing data and AI workflows for leading brands and operates at massive scale with a rapidly growing engineering organization of 50 engineers shipping continuously into production.

The engineering team is known for its high talent density strong ownership culture and focus on building performant scalable systems across distributed cloud environments. The company has reached over $100M ARR and continues to scale rapidly across product lines and geographies.

This role sits at the center of engineering velocity responsible for how 50 engineers build test and ship software every day.

What You Will Do

Own the end-to-end developer experience across build test and deployment systems for a large engineering organization
Lead the evolution of a large JavaScript/TypeScript monorepo used by 50 engineers
Reduce build and CI times through tooling caching and architectural improvements
Implement and scale modern monorepo tooling (e.g. TurboRepo Bazel Nx)
Improve testing infrastructure visibility and reliability across multiple engineering teams
Design systems to improve developer iteration speed and reduce cross-team blocking dependencies
Own observability and operational excellence across build/test/deploy pipelines
Support multi-region and multi-cloud infrastructure used in production systems
Partner closely with product engineering teams to identify friction points in development workflows
Drive engineering-wide standards for code quality testing and release processes
Act as a force multiplier for engineering productivity across the org

Ideal Candidate Background

815 years of experience in backend or developer productivity engineering
Strong experience in developer tooling build systems or monorepo infrastructure
Experience working in engineering organizations scaling from 40 to 100 engineers
Deep expertise in TypeScript / JavaScript ecosystems
Strong systems design fundamentals and understanding of distributed system behavior
Hands-on experience improving CI/CD pipelines build performance or developer workflows
Experience implementing or scaling tools like TurboRepo Bazel or Nx
Strong CS fundamentals (degree in CS/CE preferred from top universities)
Experience at high-growth startups or top-tier engineering organizations

Preferred

Experience at companies like Vercel Stripe Databricks Plaid Ironclad etc.
Background in developer platforms build systems or internal tooling teams
Experience working on multi-cloud or multi-region distributed systems
Exposure to event-driven architectures or large-scale backend systems
Prior experience owning engineering productivity across multiple teams
Strong ability to influence engineering culture and technical direction

Compensation and Benefits

Competitive base salary: $180000 $320000
Meaningful equity package
Remote (US & Canada) flexibility
High ownership role with org-wide impact
Opportunity to define developer productivity for a fast-scaling engineering org
Direct visibility with engineering leadership
High-impact systems used across the entire engineering organization

Why Join

This is a rare opportunity to own developer productivity at scale in a fast-growing engineering organization.

You will define how dozens of engineers build and ship software daily directly improving engineering velocity across a high-scale distributed system.

If you are passionate about build systems monorepos and developer experience and want to operate at staff-level impact across an entire engineering org this role offers exceptional ownership technical depth and career upside.


Required Experience:

Staff IC


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