Senior Software Engineer, Developer Platform & AI Tooling

The role

You will work with the developer platform team to improve developer experience and delivery speed. The work covers AI-powered developer tooling, CI/CD, Kubernetes reliability, and self-service templates for developers.

What you will do

• Run a portfolio of initiatives that improve developer experience and delivery speed, from design through rollout and measurement.
• Give feedback on the platform roadmap and simplify product and technical design.
• Build and scale AI-powered developer tooling, including agentic coding and review workflows.
• Build policy- and guardrail-aware assistants that can comment, propose code changes, and automate repetitive tasks.
• Create prompt libraries, instructions, and service manuals that make AI adoption effective and safe.
• Improve the CI/CD platform to be faster, more observable, and easier to adopt.
• Strengthen reliability and security in Kubernetes, including rollout strategies and priority classes.
• Contribute to incident response playbooks, maintenance modes, and recovery patterns.
• Create self-service templates, CLI and automation enhancements, docs, runbooks, and technical blogs.
• Pair with teammates on complex changes and champion code review quality.

Required qualifications

• A track record of building platform capabilities with clear outcomes in developer velocity, reliability, and/or quality.
• Solid experience in one or more of: CI/CD systems and reusable pipeline components; Kubernetes, Helm, GitOps and infrastructure as code; AI for engineering including prompt design and integrating LLMs
• Working knowledge of the remaining areas listed above.
• Proficiency in at least two languages used for platform work, such as Python, TypeScript/Node.js, or Bash.
• Strong security and reliability instincts, including secrets, least privilege, dependency hygiene, and runtime hardening.
• Communicates clearly and concisely in writing and verbally on technical and non-technical subjects.
• Actively listens to others and ensures they are understood.

Nice to have

• Experience building agentic developer assistants that review code, propose changes, and automate routine tasks.
• CDN and edge controls for maintenance and incident response.
• Platform observability improvements (logging, metrics, traces) and performance baselining.
• gRPC service enablement and runtime configuration patterns.
• Exposure to commercial LLM providers (e.g., Anthropic) and safe rollout patterns in enterprise settings.

Benefits

• Medical, vision, dental, disability, and life insurance for employees and dependents.
• Parental and military leave.
• Employee assistance program.
• 401k with match.
• Annual bonus.
• Pet insurance.
• RSUs (equity).
• Paid parking for in-office employees.
• 10 paid holidays.
• Paid time off.
• Weekly All Hands meeting and social committee events.

Before you apply

• The posting lists a compensation range that reflects typical pay for this role based on experience, skills, and market; individual pay may vary.

About the company

ZenBusiness helps people start, run, and grow their own businesses by simplifying forms, taxes, and ongoing state compliance. It is a remote company based in Austin, Texas.