Senior Software Engineer — Developer Experience

As a Software Engineer on the Infrastructure and Developer Experience team, you'll accelerate the Snorkel AI team and our customers by improving our developer platform, build and release toolchains, and CI across the stack. You’ll work closely with other engineers, researchers, and product management to align on the highest leverage improvements for developer velocity, test infrastructure, and more. You will help streamline workflows, enhance collaboration, and empower software engineers at Snorkel to reach new heights of productivity and creativity.

Main Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain build and release toolchains at Snorkel
• Lead the design and architecture of developer tools and infrastructure, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance
• Develop high-quality software solutions to improve developer workflows, including build systems, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and development environments
• Research, evaluate, and integrate third-party tools and services to enhance our developer environment and streamline development processes
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for developer tools, processes, and best practices to facilitate knowledge sharing and onboarding of new team members
• Participate in on-call responsibilities in rotation with the engineering team
• Work a hybrid schedule with one day per week in our Redwood City HQ, two additional days in a regional office (SF or Redwood City HQ), and work remotely with "No Meeting" Tuesdays and Thursdays

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, specializing in developer environment, developer experience, or related areas
• Familiarity with build and release chain mechanics (e.g. bazel)
• Practical experience with Docker containerization and clustering (Kubernetes/EKS/GKE)
• Strong understanding of software development best practices, including version control, automated testing, and CI/CD
• Proficiency in automation, scripting languages, and infrastructure-as-code tools
• Strong communication and coding skills
• Proactive and positive attitude

Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, specializing in developer environment, developer experience, and developer velocity
• Strong development and debugging skills in Python
• Experience building and maintaining package management tools like a pypi mirror or artifactory
• Familiar with common security best practices, architecture design and implementation
• Experience building developer environments, infrastructure, CI/CD, tooling in an enterprise setting