Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

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Responsibilities

• ▹Design and implement automation pipelines for comprehensive testing across environments with varying feature flags and realistic customer data profiles
• ▹Create intelligent testing agents that simulate real user behavior to validate configurations
• ▹Develop and maintain GitHub workflows and actions to automate testing, deployment, and validation
• ▹Manage and optimize Helm charts for deployment consistency across environments
• ▹Implement and maintain ArgoCD workflows for continuous deployment and environment management
• ▹Establish testing best practices and drive adoption across engineering teams
• ▹Build scalable infrastructure supporting parallel test execution
• ▹Develop infrastructure-as-code templates for reproducible test environments
• ▹Implement containerization strategies for test environments and dependencies
• ▹Create benchmarking frameworks to measure performance and reliability
• ▹Monitor and improve test coverage and reliability metrics
• ▹Collaborate with product and engineering teams on testing requirements

Requirements

• ▹5+ years of software engineering experience focused on automation and testing infrastructure
• ▹Expert proficiency in Python and TypeScript
• ▹Extensive experience with GitHub workflows and actions
• ▹Deep understanding of testing methodologies and best practices
• ▹Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• ▹Containerization experience (Docker, Kubernetes)
• ▹Benchmarking and performance testing experience
• ▹Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• ▹Background in developer tools or platform engineering
• ▹Ability to design and implement complex automation systems

Nice to have

• ▹Experience working with LLMs in production
• ▹Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code principles
• ▹Experience with container orchestration and management
• ▹Knowledge of performance testing tools and frameworks
• ▹Experience with monitoring and observability tools
• ▹Background in test framework development
• ▹Strong working knowledge of Helm charts and ArgoCD
• ▹Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar)

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Weekly $75/£75 (or local equivalent) lunch stipend
• ▹Full health and dental benefits, plus a separate mental health budget
• ▹RRSP/401K/pension matching
• ▹100% parental leave top-up for up to 6 months, either parent
• ▹Annual enrichment benefits: arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, workspace improvement credit
• ▹Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, coaching
• ▹6 weeks paid vacation (30 working days)
• ▹Travel budget to other offices plus annual company offsite
• ▹$500 home office stipend

About the company

Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company, building cutting-edge foundation models and end-to-end products for real business problems. Co-headquartered in Toronto and San Francisco, with offices in London, New York City, Montreal, Seoul, Germany, and Paris.