Staff Software Engineer (Developer Platform & AI Tooling)

**Who We Are** We started our company to help others launch and run their own businesses, at any stage. The way we help is by keeping it simple and supporting entrepreneurs one step at a time. Put simply: our mission is to enable anyone to start, run, and grow their business while avoiding the common pitfalls that derail hopeful entrepreneurs. No more having to wade through forms, taxes, or ongoing state compliance. We are a remote company based in Austin, Texas. We have team members from Florida to Oregon and all points in\-between. Take pride in your work knowing that it shapes how people all across the country reach their goal of starting, running, and growing their business. If the idea of helping people and working with a genuinely caring, supportive team excites you, then you've come to the right place. **The Role** Help shape the future of how engineers build, ship, and operate software. We're hiring a Staff Software Engineer to contribute to platform\-wide initiatives across CI/CD, Kubernetes, and developer experience – with a strong emphasis on building and integrating AI tooling into everyday engineering workflows. **Responsibilities** Design, build, and scale AI\-powered developer tooling: * Agentic coding and review workflows that use LLMs to analyze code, generate changes, and * collaborate via chat. * Policy\- and guardrail\-aware assistants that can comment, propose code changes, and safely * automate repetitive tasks. * Prompt libraries, instructions, and service manuals that make AI adoption effective and safe across teams. Contribute to the evolution of our CI/CD platform to be faster, more observable, and easier to adopt: * Build analytics and data pipelines to compare platform performance, baselines, and regressions. * Contribute insights that inform team\-level improvements and broader platform decisions. Strengthen platform reliability and security in Kubernetes: * Improve cluster/app resiliency, rollout strategies, and priority classes for critical services. * Standardize Helm chart patterns, deployment practices, and IaC workflows. * Contribute to incident response playbooks, maintenance modes, and recovery patterns. Create paved paths and golden templates for developers: * Self\-service software templates, CLI/automation enhancements, and bootstrap flows. * Clear docs, runbooks, and technical blogs that drive adoption and reduce support load. Mentor and grow: * Pair with teammates to land complex changes, champion TDD and code review quality, and uplevel practices within the team. * Anticipate and surface blockers, delays, and tradeoffs before they require escalation – keeping stakeholders informed and expectations aligned. **Qualifications** * Staff\-level impact building platform capabilities with clear outcomes in developer velocity, reliability, and/or quality. * Deep experience in one or more of the following and working knowledge of the rest: + CI/CD systems a