Staff Engineer - Developer Productivity

Recruiting From Scratch

  • San Francisco, California
  • 30+ days ago
  • Remote
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    Description

     
    Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire.
     

    Title of Role: Staff Engineer – Developer Productivity (Monorepo / Build Systems)

    Location: Remote (US or Canada)
    Company Stage of Funding: Series C (~$1B+ valuation)
    Office Type: Remote (North America)
    Salary: $180,000 – $320,000 + Competitive Equity

    Company Description

    Our client is a high-growth B2B SaaS company building a modern data activation and AI-driven decisioning platform used by hundreds of enterprise customers globally.

    The company powers large-scale marketing, data, and AI workflows for leading brands and operates at massive scale with a rapidly growing engineering organization of 50+ engineers shipping continuously into production.

    The engineering team is known for its high talent density, strong ownership culture, and focus on building performant, scalable systems across distributed cloud environments. The company has reached over $100M+ ARR and continues to scale rapidly across product lines and geographies.

    This role sits at the center of engineering velocity — responsible for how 50+ engineers build, test, and ship software every day.

    What You Will Do

    Own the end-to-end developer experience across build, test, and deployment systems for a large engineering organization
    Lead the evolution of a large JavaScript/TypeScript monorepo used by 50+ engineers
    Reduce build and CI times through tooling, caching, and architectural improvements
    Implement and scale modern monorepo tooling (e.g., TurboRepo, Bazel, Nx)
    Improve testing infrastructure, visibility, and reliability across multiple engineering teams
    Design systems to improve developer iteration speed and reduce cross-team blocking dependencies
    Own observability and operational excellence across build/test/deploy pipelines
    Support multi-region and multi-cloud infrastructure used in production systems
    Partner closely with product engineering teams to identify friction points in development workflows
    Drive engineering-wide standards for code quality, testing, and release processes
    Act as a force multiplier for engineering productivity across the org

    Ideal Candidate Background

    8–15 years of experience in backend or developer productivity engineering
    Strong experience in developer tooling, build systems, or monorepo infrastructure
    Experience working in engineering organizations scaling from ~40 to 100+ engineers
    Deep expertise in TypeScript / JavaScript ecosystems
    Strong systems design fundamentals and understanding of distributed system behavior
    Hands-on experience improving CI/CD pipelines, build performance, or developer workflows
    Experience implementing or scaling tools like TurboRepo, Bazel, or Nx
    Strong CS fundamentals (degree in CS/CE preferred from top universities)
    Experience at high-growth startups or top-tier engineering organizations

    Preferred

    Experience at companies like Vercel, Stripe, Databricks, Plaid, Ironclad, etc.
    Background in developer platforms, build systems, or internal tooling teams
    Experience working on multi-cloud or multi-region distributed systems
    Exposure to event-driven architectures or large-scale backend systems
    Prior experience owning engineering productivity across multiple teams
    Strong ability to influence engineering culture and technical direction

    Compensation and Benefits

    Competitive base salary: $180,000 – $320,000
    Meaningful equity package
    Remote (US & Canada) flexibility
    High ownership role with org-wide impact
    Opportunity to define developer productivity for a fast-scaling engineering org
    Direct visibility with engineering leadership
    High-impact systems used across the entire engineering organization

    Why Join

    This is a rare opportunity to own developer productivity at scale in a fast-growing engineering organization.

    You will define how dozens of engineers build and ship software daily, directly improving engineering velocity across a high-scale distributed system.

    If you are passionate about build systems, monorepos, and developer experience — and want to operate at staff-level impact across an entire engineering org — this role offers exceptional ownership, technical depth, and career upside.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSan Francisco, California (
    Remote
    )
    Websiterecruitingfromscratch.com

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