About the Role
Build and evolve the internal developer platform, including CI/CD, release automation, observability standards, platform tooling, and developer workflows. Focus on improving engineer productivity by reducing build times, eliminating flaky tests, streamlining service creation/deployment, and enhancing operability.
Responsibilities
- Identify workflow bottlenecks (build/test/release/local dev) and build tools that measurably reduce toil.
- Create and maintain “golden paths” like service templates, CLIs, libraries, and automation that teams rely on.
- Design reusable CI pipelines and deployment workflows that are fast, safe, and easy to adopt across teams.
- Improve reliability of builds and tests (flake reduction, hermeticity, caching) and drive down cycle time.
- Support progressive delivery patterns (canary / blue-green) and safe rollback mechanisms.
- Establish shared observability primitives (metrics/logs/traces), standards, and libraries so services are production-ready by default.
- Partner with product engineers to improve operability: SLOs, alerting hygiene, dashboards, incident learnings.
- Build and improve core platform capabilities that make it easy to run and scale services.
- Own the systems you build end-to-end and help keep them healthy in production, improving reliability over time.
Requirements
- 4+ years building production software, with meaningful experience in platform / devtools / infrastructure (or adjacent SRE/release engineering).
- Strong coding ability in at least one systems/productivity language (e.g., Python, TypeScript/JS), and comfort building developer-facing tooling (CLIs, libraries, automation).
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems and designing pipelines that are scalable and reusable across many repos/services.
- Practical experience with observability in production systems (instrumentation, alerting, dashboards, incident response).
- Comfort with containers and modern cloud infrastructure (e.g., Docker/Kubernetes and related tooling).
- A track record of improving developer experience through measurable outcomes (faster builds, fewer flakes, safer deploys, fewer incidents).
- Strong cross-team collaboration and communication—especially writing clear docs and driving adoption.
- Experience with monorepos and build systems and/or large-scale CI performance work.
- Experience building internal platforms: service templates, paved-road deployment, self-serve environments, developer portals.
- Infrastructure-as-code experience (e.g., Terraform) and a security-minded approach to supply chain (provenance, secrets, least privilege).
- Experience applying AI-assisted tooling to make engineers dramatically more effective.
Skills
- Python
- TypeScript/JS
- CI/CD systems
- Observability
- Instrumentation
- Alerting
- Dashboards
- Incident response
- Containers
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Monorepos
- Build systems
- Infrastructure-as-code
- Terraform
- AI-assisted tooling
Location
- In-office
- United States
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Senior
- 4+ years building production software
Salary/Compensations
- $200K – $400K + Offers Equity
- Competitive equity
Benefits
- Take what you need vacation policy
- Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits for you and your family
- Life Insurance and Disability Benefits
- Retirement Plan (e.g., 401K, pension)
- Parental Leave
- Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
- Daily lunches and snacks in the office
About the Company
- Decagon is the leading conversational AI platform empowering every brand to deliver concierge customer experiences.
- Our technology enables industry-defining enterprises like Avis Budget Group, Block’s Cash App and Square, Chime, Oura Health, and Hunter Douglas to deploy AI agents.
- AI agents power personalized, deeply satisfying interactions across voice, chat, email, SMS, and every other channel.
- We’re building a future where customer experiences are redefined from support tickets and hold music to faster resolutions, richer conversations, and deeper relationships.
- Proud to be backed by world-class investors including a16z, Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, Coatue, and Index Ventures.
- We’re an in-office company, driven by a shared commitment to excellence and velocity.
- Our values — Just Get It Done, Invent What Customers Want, Winner’s Mindset, and The Polymath Principle — shape how we work and grow as a team.
- The Infrastructure team builds and operates the foundations that power Decagon: networking, data, ML serving, developer platform, and real‑time voice.
- The Infrastructure team partners closely with product, data, and ML to deliver high‑scale, low‑latency systems with clear SLOs and great developer ergonomics.
