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Software Engineer – Developer Tools
Company | Instabase |
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Location | New York, NY, USA |
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Salary | $237500 – $270000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | |
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Experience Level | Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, including 3+ years in infrastructure, platform, or developer productivity roles.
- Deep expertise in one or more of: CI/CD systems, build/test automation, internal tooling, or configuration management.
- Proficient in at least one high-level language (e.g., Python, Go, Java).
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
- Strong systems thinking and ability to design reliable, maintainable solutions at scale.
- Proven track record of technical leadership and cross-team collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and development of scalable systems that improve build, test, and deployment pipelines.
- Identify and remove bottlenecks in the developer experience, from local development to CI/CD.
- Design and build internal tools, services, and frameworks that enable fast and safe code delivery.
- Own reliability, performance, and scalability of key developer infrastructure systems.
- Drive adoption of modern engineering tools, metrics, and observability across the org.
- Mentor and guide other engineers through technical design reviews, pair programming, and code reviews.
- Advocate for engineering best practices and help shape the future of our platform architecture.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working in a monorepo or polyrepo environment at scale.
- Familiarity with Bazel, Buck, or other modern build systems.
- Experience with metrics-driven engineering and observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana).