Staff/Principal Software Engineer - Developer Experience

The posting, as Seeq wrote it

Seeq is a leader in industrial data analytics, empowering companies to derive insights from complex process data and improve operational outcomes. As we continue to grow, we recognize the importance of creating a seamless and productive developer experience, enabling our engineering teams and customers to build, integrate, and extend our platform effectively.
As a Principal or Staff Software Engineer – Developer Experience, you will play a pivotal role in designing and building the tools, platforms, and workflows that help engineers work more efficiently. A key focus of this role will be advancing the adoption of AI-powered development tools and practices, identifying opportunities to improve engineering productivity, and implementing solutions that meaningfully enhance the software development lifecycle.
You will work closely with engineering teams to understand developer needs, identify friction points, and deliver scalable solutions that improve how software is built, tested, deployed, and maintained. Your work will span internal developer platforms, SDKs, APIs, build systems, CI/CD pipelines, observability, security tooling, and AI-enabled developer workflows.
Beyond building tools, you will help shape how engineering teams adopt and benefit from new technologies. You will champion automation, promote developer experience best practices, and help establish workflows that make our engineering organization more productive.
This role is ideal for an experienced engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, building tools for other developers, and exploring how AI can transform software engineering practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain internal developer platforms, tools, SDKs, APIs, and frameworks that improve engineering productivity.
• Drive the adoption and integration of AI-powered tools and workflows into the software development lifecycle, helping engineering teams improve efficiency, automation, and developer experience.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI in development workflows, including coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and other engineering processes.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to understand developer challenges, identify friction points, and build scalable solutions that address them.
• Lead initiatives to improve and automate build, test, deployment, and CI/CD processes.
• Build and enhance internal developer infrastructure, including developer portals, build tooling, and reusable engineering frameworks.
• Improve developers’ ability to detect and diagnose issues with internal tooling by building and maintaining effective observability and monitoring.
• Provide vulnerability management tooling that helps teams find and triage issues, assess their impact, and resolve them.
• Define and track developer productivity metrics, using data to identify opportunities for improvement and guide investment decisions.
• Improve developer visibility and operational eff

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• Staff Software Engineer: Operates at team-level scope. Leads complex, multi-person efforts in their team's core areas, such as CI/CD, build tooling, and observability. Mentors engineers and raises the quality and velocity of the team by leading through example.

Benefits

Seeq is a remote-first (only) company founded by serial entrepreneurs. Our executive team and board of directors have extensive experience with successful startup ventures in high-growth environments.
We are founded on the idea that companies need better solutions for quickly and easily getting business insight from their industrial process data. Our mission is to provide software and services that convert that data into meaningful information that the business can use to improve profitability.
We have a wonderful, kind-hearted, talented team that loves to collaborate, lead by example, and exceed our customers’ expectations. We are certified as a great place to work, an emerging startup, the Technology Fast 500, and Inc. Magazine's Best Places to Work.
The Perks of Working at Seeq

• Competitive salary plus bonus incentives
• $187,500 - 220,000 depending on your level.
• Benefits:
• 12-week paid Seeq family leave
• Unlimited PTO
• Internet and mobile phone reimbursements
• Medical benefits
• Group term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance pre-tax benefits
• Voluntary vision and dental (ortho)
• Vacation bonus program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Generous home office allowance
• The best co-workers (we've analyzed the data, so we know it's true.)
• Pet-friendly workspace (your dog will be so happy to have you home)
• You love your job!

Seeq provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics.
You must be authorized to work in the country in which you reside. Seeq does not sponsor US F1 or H-1B work visas