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Posted: 09/17/2025 Employment Type: Direct Hire Job Number: 30935 Job Location: Onsite Industry: SOFT - Software Companies

Job Description

Position Title: Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting Direct Hire opportunity located in San Francisco or NYC, NY.

Job Responsibilities:

Help pioneer and establish a new team focused on local dev efficiency, testing, observability, and reliability tooling for developers
Work on tools that make local development and production monitoring more effective and efficient, improving both the ergonomics and efficiency of our test/observability infrastructure across local development, CI, and production
Collaborate with other Infrastructure functions and all Engineering teams to design and implement additional testing, staging, and release workflows
Make it easy to do things the right way (testability, observability, security, performance, etc.)
Work on a distributed team across US time zones.

Job Qualifications:

6+ years of engineering experience
Experience building internal dev productivity and platform tools that help engineers in scalable and sustainable ways, and a passion for enabling other engineers to move quickly and safely
A track record of proactively identifying systemic challenges and navigating ambiguity to resolve them, especially spanning team lines in an Engineering organization
Familiarity with some portions of our tech stack: JavaScript/Typescript/React, GCP (or similar cloud providers), Postgres, GitHub Actions, Temporal, OpenTelemetry, Terraform, Playwright, Honeycomb, as well as shell scripting and debugging/profiling/benchmarking

Job Details:

Job Type: Direct Hire
Location: San Francisco or New York City, NY.
Salary Range: $215 – 275K.

About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.

Meet Your Recruiter

Chris Walsh

Since 2013, I have met many bright-minded and interesting people while recruiting for Protingent. For the last decade, I have specialized in hardware and software product development engineering recruitment. My recruiting style is to build a strong, lasting relationship while I help you achieve your career goals. I am a straightforward, open-minded individual who treats others as I wish to be treated. I enjoy playing golf and watching sports and appreciate fine wine and food. Let’s get started today.

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