Staff Engineer - Developer Productivity

Recruiting From Scratch

  • San Francisco, California
  • 1 day ago
  • Remote
  • $180,000–$320,000 Per Year

Highlights

Background in developer platforms, build systems, or internal tooling teamsExperience working on multi-cloud or multi-region distributed systemsExposure to event-driven architectures or large-scale backend systemsPrior experience owning engineering productivity across multiple teamsStrong ability to influence engineering culture and technical direction. 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.

Numbers & Facts

LocationSan Francisco, California (
Remote
)
Salary$180,000–$320,000 Per Year

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 organizationLead the evolution of a large JavaScript/TypeScript monorepo used by 50+ engineersReduce build and CI times through tooling, caching, and architectural improvementsImplement and scale modern monorepo tooling (e.g., TurboRepo, Bazel, Nx)Improve testing infrastructure, visibility, and reliability across multiple engineering teamsDesign systems to improve developer iteration speed and reduce cross-team blocking dependenciesOwn observability and operational excellence across build/test/deploy pipelinesSupport multi-region and multi-cloud infrastructure used in production systemsPartner closely with product engineering teams to identify friction points in development workflowsDrive engineering-wide standards for code quality, testing, and release processesAct as a force multiplier for engineering productivity across the org

Ideal Candidate Background

8–15 years of experience in backend or developer productivity engineeringStrong experience in developer tooling, build systems, or monorepo infrastructureExperience working in engineering organizations scaling from ~40 to 100+ engineersDeep expertise in TypeScript / JavaScript ecosystemsStrong systems design fundamentals and understanding of distributed system behaviorHands-on experience improving CI/CD pipelines, build performance, or developer workflowsExperience implementing or scaling tools like TurboRepo, Bazel, or NxStrong 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 teamsExperience working on multi-cloud or multi-region distributed systemsExposure to event-driven architectures or large-scale backend systemsPrior experience owning engineering productivity across multiple teamsStrong ability to influence engineering culture and technical direction

Compensation and Benefits

Competitive base salary: $180,000 – $320,000Meaningful equity packageRemote (US & Canada) flexibilityHigh ownership role with org-wide impactOpportunity to define developer productivity for a fast-scaling engineering orgDirect visibility with engineering leadershipHigh-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.

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