Staff Software Engineer - Code Authoring

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and long-term design of systems that run coding agents, including pull-request services, sandboxes, remote development environments, and integrations with Linear, GitHub, Claude, and Cursor.
• Own and improve the complete developer workflow from ticket creation through merged, tested code.
• Operate developer tooling as production infrastructure with monitoring, uptime targets, SLAs, and incident accountability.
• Track and optimize the costs of agent runs and development environments.
• Set standards for design reviews, testing, operational readiness, and code quality.
• Represent the team across engineering, support cross-team planning and prioritization, and shape the technical roadmap.
• Mentor engineers on the team and across the organization.

Requirements

• Extensive experience designing, building, and operating distributed backend systems in production at scale.
• Experience owning developer tools, CI/CD systems, or internal platforms used by other engineering teams and hundreds of engineers, with design decisions spanning multiple teams.
• Hands-on experience building with large language models and coding agents, including providing tools, evaluating output, and tracking behavior and cost.
• Experience operating services with uptime targets, including defining SLAs, monitoring and alerting, and incident ownership.
• Demonstrated judgment in performance and cost tradeoffs, including reducing operating costs without reducing system quality.
• Experience mentoring engineers and improving team capabilities across an organization.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to align disparate groups.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering, or equivalent industry experience.
• Advanced understanding of Kotlin is preferred.
• Working knowledge of Python is preferred.
• Experience running workloads across multiple cloud providers is preferred.

Benefits

• Canada base salary range of $190,500–$262,000 per year, plus equity and benefits.
• Hybrid work arrangement with office attendance three days per week on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and one flexible Monday, Wednesday, or Friday; hybrid employees may work remotely up to four weeks per year.
• Comprehensive benefits, competitive pay, equity, enterprise AI tools, growth opportunities, and an inclusive workplace.