Staff Engineer - Developer Productivity

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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: $180,000 -- $320,000 + 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

• 8--15 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: $180,000 -- $320,000
• 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.