Senior Engineer / Technical Lead

Job title: Senior Engineer / Technical Lead

Location: San Jose, CA (5 Days On-site)

Duration: 6+ Months, W2 contract

Responsibilities and duties:

• Build Our AI Productivity Measurement System
• Instrument and track AI tool adoption (Cursor, Claude Code)
• Measure suggestion acceptance and AI-assisted PR trends
• Connect AI usage to real delivery outcomes
• Improve Engineering Flow & Predictability
• Implement DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, recovery time)
• Build GitHub-based insights:
• PR cycle time (p50/p75)
• Review SLAs
• Throughput & WIP aging
• Merge deploy timing
• Publish weekly scorecards and identify bottlenecks
• Protect Quality While Increasing Speed
• Enforce coverage standards (target: 80%)
• Monitor E2E health (Playwright pass rate, flakiness, time-to-fix)
• Track rework signals (churn, reverts, hotfixes)
• Ensure velocity gains don t hide reliability regressions
• Build the Data & Automation Layer
• Standardize PR templates and labels (risk, AI usage, rollout plans)
• Automate ingestion from GitHub, CI/CD, and AI tools
• Deliver a unified dashboard (team-level metrics only no individual ranking)
• Establish privacy-conscious governance standards

Requirements:

• 6+ years of software engineering experience (platform or backend preferred)
• Experience with GitHub APIs, CI/CD systems, and engineering analytics
• Familiarity with DORA/Four Keys metrics
• Experience with automated testing frameworks (Playwright preferred)
• Strong systems thinking able to balance speed, reliability, and sustainability
• Comfortable working across engineering, platform, and leadership stakeholders
• Experience with AI developer tools
• Experience building internal analytics or developer platforms
• Background in developer experience (DevEx) or engineering enablement

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