Senior Software Engineer - Developer Experience

Snorkel AI is on a mission to help enterprises transform expert knowledge into specialized AI at scale. The company is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for their Developer Experience team to shape the AI-native development environment, modernize CI/CD platforms, and mentor engineers, ultimately accelerating developer velocity and product quality.

Responsibilities:

• Set the strategy and architecture for our local development environment, build systems, testing frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and AI-assisted coding workflows (Claude Code, Claude MD-in-repo workflows)
• Own the CI health and experience, maintain metrics to track CI health, developer productivity, effective usage of AI and build roadmap to constantly improve
• End-to-end ownership of our release pipeline and lead the transition from scheduled releases to a robust, automated continuous deployment framework
• Deep experience and opinion in standardizing for effective usage of AI coding and reviewing agents for faster development, review and incident investigation
• Ship a clear multi-quarter DevEx roadmap and lead cross-team adoption
• Mentor and technically guide engineers within and outside of the team with best practices to improve quality and velocity; potential to grow into TLM ownership as the team grows
• Partner with cross-functional teams to design and deliver improvements to dev-infra, release processes, and internal tooling
• Proactively identify bottlenecks and drive large-scale DX initiatives — e.g., cutting flaky tests, improving PR iteration speed, increasing automated test coverage, and reducing infra cost
• Present plans, tradeoffs, and progress to engineering leadership; serve as a thought partner for org-wide developer experience strategy
• Champion experimentation and roll-out of AI-native development workflows, coding assistants, test-generation tools, and autonomous CI bots

Requirements:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including deep ownership of build, test, or CI/CD systems
• Proven experience owning and evolving CI/CD systems for large-scale codebases, focusing on reliability, scalability, and developer productivity
• Demonstrated experience defining and executing roadmaps for developer experience initiatives and internal engineering tooling
• Deep understanding of how to effectively integrate AI agents into the development workflow to accelerate engineering velocity and improve developer experience
• Strong background in developer productivity, distributed systems, and cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
• Track record of leading complex engineering initiatives, influencing stakeholders, and delivering measurable impact
• Excellent communication skills; able to translate technical constraints into clear plans for non-technical audiences
• Comfortable working with: Infra & deployment technologies: Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes
• CI/CD systems: CircleCI, Buildkite, GitHub Actions, Helm
• Build systems like Poetry, pip, uv
• Experience designing and operating large-scale developer workflows and improving engineering best practices
• Experience in hyper-growth startup environments or scaling engineering orgs
• Experience with AI development workflows, AI-assisted code generation, or SRE automation or strong excitement to learn
• Prior experience as a Tech Lead, Team Lead, or Hands on Engineering Manager