About the role

Staff Software Engineer on the Backend Infrastructure team at Thumbtack. Improving CI/CD systems and developing Go backend solutions for enhanced reliability and performance in engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

Own the end-to-end health of Go build and verification pipelines, including performance, reliability, and flakiness reduction.
Define and implement consistent, high-signal backend CI/CD failure visibility and debugging workflows.
Improve local backend development and iteration workflows to shorten feedback loops and reduce reliance on staging deploys.
Establish and enforce Go platform standards, ownership boundaries, and baseline documentation expectations to improve long-term codebase health.
Proactively improve shared Go codebases to reduce regression risk and increase confidence when making changes.
Partner with Platform Engineering and other infrastructure teams to align backend infrastructure with existing platform foundations.
Act as a steward for the backend engineering community by running forums, collecting feedback, sharing progress, mentoring engineers, and reviewing code in shared areas.

Experience owning and improving CI/CD systems for large, shared codebases.
Strong proficiency with Go and familiarity with Go build, test, and verification workflows.
Experience improving developer experience through tooling, workflow design, or platform standards.
Ability to diagnose and address systemic reliability and performance issues in infrastructure systems.
Experience working in shared ownership environments and establishing clear platform boundaries.
Ability to operate with focused scope and deliver high-leverage improvements as an early member of a new team.
Comfort working on platform-oriented problems rather than feature-oriented product work.