Staff Software Engineer - Developer Productivity

August 22

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Gemini

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2015

💰 Venture Round on 2022-02

Description

• Improve developer feedback cycles by optimizing builds, speeding up compiling and testing. • Develop utilities and patterns to increase developer productivity. • Develop linters and other static analysis tools to increase safety. • Improve feedback cycles at all levels of development (examples: improving the experience of iterating on code locally, deploying to test environments, deploying to production). • Improve organization wide concerns (examples: identifying and fixing build bottlenecks, improving the observability of running systems, language and library upgrades). • Help other technologists at Gemini be more effective in their roles, through tool and library improvements. • Provide technical input and knowledge to the planning, design, and requirements process for new products and features. • Review other software engineers’ code for correctness, style, and information security concerns. • Improve the performance, maintainability, and operations of the Gemini code base by engaging in occasional refactoring and upgrade projects. • Support your team’s production software by responding to an occasional alert or bug report. • Be an expert and guide for Gemini’s best practices in engineering.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. • At least 8 years of software development experience. • Advanced proficiency in at least one language. We use mostly Scala and C++ on our backend and Typescript on the frontend – it’s great if you’re comfortable in those or if you’re willing to learn. • Genuinely passionate about working with developers and improving their experience and velocity. • Experience building multi-language monorepo tooling (preferably Bazel). • Experience with the Bazel production ecosystem (e.g. EngFlow, BuildBarn, BuildBuddy etc.). • Experience with the integration between Bazel and IDEs such as IntelliJ and VSCode. • Experience optimizing builds, CI/CD pipelines, and/or test automation. • Experience building useful utilities and abstractions that enable other teams to deliver software faster. • Experience as a Technical Leader within a team, helping evaluating and making tech decisions for the team. • Experience training or mentoring other developers. • The ability to work closely across teams and manage dependencies. • A customer- and product-focused mindset, with the ability to make well-reasoned tradeoffs between speed and quality. • The ability to adapt and handle multiple competing priorities in collaboration with peers. • Strong bias for automation.

Benefits

• Competitive starting salary • A discretionary annual bonus • Long-term incentive in the form of a new hire equity grant • Comprehensive health plans • 401K with company matching • Paid Parental Leave • Flexible time off