Staff Software Engineer

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Own product work across the web console, APIs, CLI, GitHub integrations, billing and usage, permissions, docs, and internal tools
• ▹Turn ambiguous customer pain into clear product and technical plans, carrying them through design, implementation, rollout, and measurement
• ▹Improve developer-facing workflows for CI, container builds, cache, registry, runners, setup, logs, errors, and integrations
• ▹Design APIs and data models that are consistent, understandable, and safe to evolve
• ▹Debug production issues across services, databases, AWS infrastructure, integrations, and customer environments
• ▹Raise the engineering bar through design docs, code review, and mentorship

Requirements

• ▹Staff-level product engineering judgment across backend behavior, API shape, data model, UI flow, and operational reality
• ▹Experience owning meaningful projects from ambiguity to production, including sequencing, tradeoffs, rollout, and follow-through
• ▹Strong technical depth in backend, full-stack, platform, infrastructure, or developer-tooling systems
• ▹Excellent debugging instincts across application code, APIs, databases, background jobs, cloud infrastructure, observability, and third-party integrations
• ▹Developer empathy for clear APIs, intuitive CLIs, useful docs, and actionable errors
• ▹Typically 7+ years of production engineering experience, or equivalent depth in product, platform, infrastructure, or developer tools

Nice to have

• ▹Background in CI systems, GitHub Actions, build tooling, Docker/BuildKit, remote caching, auth/SSO, billing, or observability
• ▹Direct experience with Depot's stack (TypeScript, Go, React, protobuf/gRPC-style APIs, MySQL/PlanetScale, ClickHouse, AWS, OpenTelemetry)

Soft skills

About the company

Depot helps software teams build faster and spend less time waiting; the platform spans Depot CI, remote container builds, GitHub Actions runners, remote cache, registry, APIs, SDKs, and the CLI. Fully remote, distributed across the US, Canada, and Europe.