Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience

The role

You will build platforms for agentic developer workflows and design product surfaces for engineers and AI agents. You will also own the Cloud Development Environment platform and improve build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and test infrastructure.

What you will do

• Build the platforms behind agentic developer workflows
• Roll out tools like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor
• Ship skills, plugins, and MCP servers
• Design and build product surfaces like Backstage developer portal, developer CLI, and IDE integrations
• Own and evolve the Cloud Development Environment (CDE) platform
• Improve build systems, CI/CD pipelines, test infrastructure, and observability
• Prototype and evaluate new AI developer tools

Required qualifications

• Experience building developer infrastructure, DevEx, or platform tools at 100+ engineer scale
• Strong systems thinking regarding build pipelines, CI/CD, dev environments, and test infrastructure
• UX mindset applied to engineering systems
• Hands-on experience with agentic developer tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex
• Fluency in Go and Python
• Fluency in TypeScript and React
• 6+ years of industry experience in software engineering

About the company

Thumbtack is an app used to take care of and improve homes. It helps homeowners with repairs, maintenance, and improvements by connecting them to a community of 300,000 local service businesses.