Senior Developer - R&D Infrastructure

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Buildkite, or GitHub Actions.
• Maintain and improve build and deployment infrastructure using Bazel, Make, Terraform, and CloudFormation.
• Operate and support distributed build and delivery systems across AWS and Azure environments.
• Enhance the developer experience by providing best-in-class automation tools and workflows that reduce build, test, and deployment times.
• Implement standardized monitoring, metrics, and alerting for CI/CD services in collaboration with Observability teams.
• Develop and maintain artifact management and package registry solutions.
• Contribute to the evolution of our internal developer platform (e.g., Backstage) to improve visibility and streamline development workflows.
• Participate in proof-of-concepts for new CI/CD technologies and provide recommendations for adoption.
• Ensure supply chain security, compliance, and reliability across all CI/CD systems and dependencies.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with development, operations, and platform teams to resolve delivery bottlenecks and improve overall developer productivity.
• Required Skills and Experience
• 5+ years of experience in software development, DevOps, or build/release engineering.
• Strong software development skills in Python, Go, or TypeScript.
• Proven experience with CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins, CircleCI, Buildkite, or GitHub Actions.
• Expertise in build automation tools (Bazel, Make, Gradle, or Maven).
• Knowledge of version control systems like Git and branching strategies.
• Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code technologies (Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation).
• Experience administering Linux-based environments (Ubuntu, Amazon Linux).
• Hands-on experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or EKS).
• Familiarity with artifact management, package registries, and dependency management (pip, npm, yarn, Maven).
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals and cloud environments (AWS, Azure).
• Excellent communication, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
• Preferred/Additional Skills
• Experience with Backstage platform development and plugin integration.
• Knowledge of observability and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Exposure to machine image creation tools (Packer).
• Understanding of secure CI/CD practices and software supply chain security.
• Experience with .NET application build and deployment automation.
• Ability to make sound technical decisions in ambiguous situations and clearly document rationale and risks.
• Who You Are
• You care deeply about developer productivity and platform reliability.
• You re passionate about automation, scalability, and reducing manual toil.
• You enjoy collaborating across teams while also thriving in independent work.
• You seek continuous improvement and tie your success to the success of your internal customers the developers.