Staff Software Engineer, Developer Automation - Santa Clara, United States
Originally posted 1 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a Staff Software Engineer, Developer Automation, you will build automation that diagnoses and fixes CI/CD pipeline failures across software infrastructure spanning cloud and on-prem environments.
What you'll do
- Design and build automation to diagnose and resolve CI/CD pipeline failures, including classifying regressions, flaky hardware, and infrastructure issues. - Develop automated methods to identify which merges cause failures in long-running test suites. - Evaluate and integrate AI techniques alongside deterministic automation to maximize pipeline reliability. - Architect compute and storage for build and test workloads across cloud and on-premises environments. - Own release engineering practices, including versioning schemes, independent component release trains, and compatibility matrices. - Partner with development groups and Quality Engineering to drive adoption of tooling and engineering practices.
What you'll need
- Track record of building automation that measurably reduced toil or time-to-signal in a CI, release, or dev-tooling context. - Release engineering experience, including versioning schemes, independent component release trains, and compatibility matrices. - Architectural judgment on trade-offs such as AI versus deterministic software, and compute availability versus data locality. - Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience building production-grade automation rather than scripts. - Track record of driving adoption of new tooling and best practices across cross-functional teams.
Nice to have
- Experience with GitLab CI and merge-train workflows at scale. - Hands-on experience building LLM-based agents or tools for developer workflows, such as CI triage or code review. - Experience with semantic versioning or independently versioned multi-component release systems. - Hands-on experience with containerized workloads, VMs, and Kubernetes. - Experience with observability of distributed systems, including metrics, logging, reporting, and alerting. - Systems administration skills for investigating host-level issues.
Skills: GitLab CI, LLM-based agents, developer workflows, containerized workloads, Kubernetes
This role has been open 19 days — well below the 50-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
998
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Median days open
50 d
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Median salary
$235k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | d-Matrix | All employers we track in this specialty (998 roles · 89 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 11 | 998 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 22 | 6296 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 19 d | 50 d (−31 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $235k |
Skills observed across this category: GitLab CI, LLM-based agents, developer workflows, containerized workloads, Kubernetes
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 290 open roles · median 47 d
- Qualcomm · 62 open roles · median 51 d
- AMD · 58 open roles · median 22 d
- Graphcore · 50 open roles · median 96 d
- Intel Corporation · 44 open roles · median 13 d
- Cerebras · 35 open roles · median 86 d
How we counted: 998 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 89 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 21 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.