Staff Backend Engineer, CI/CD

Meet Fetch Platform Engineering

Platform engineering at Fetch is grounded in service to developers, strong

ownership, and purposeful innovation. Rather than building end-user features,

platform engineers focus on the foundations that other teams rely on, spanning

core systems, architecture, automation, and developer workflows.

This work lives in complex problem spaces where the right answer is rarely

obvious. Our engineers navigate ambiguity with data and sound judgment,

understand tradeoffs, and partner closely across product and engineering to

solve problems that scale. We maintain a high technical bar and value

practicality, curiosity, and continuous improvement.

This is an environment for builders who enjoy shaping durable platforms,

improving developer experience at scale, and enabling teams across Fetch to ship

with confidence.

About the Role

We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer focused on CI/CD Engineering to help

evolve the systems, infrastructure, and developer workflows that power software

delivery across Fetch.

You will improve the tools and pipelines that power our releases. This includes

surfacing meaningful feedback for developers, optimizing CI performance,

improving testing and quality gates, and building automation that makes shipping

code faster and safer.

This is a generalist platform engineering role with a strong DevOps and

infrastructure orientation. You will work across backend, mobile, frontend,

platform, infrastructure, and developer tooling rather than specializing in a

single application stack.

At the Staff level, your impact will extend beyond implementing individual

pipelines or tools. You will identify systemic bottlenecks across the software

development lifecycle, establish technical direction, influence engineering

standards, and lead multi-quarter initiatives that improve how hundreds of

engineers build, test, and deploy software.

You will partner closely with engineering teams to understand friction in their

workflows and build scalable solutions that improve developer velocity while

maintaining a high bar for reliability and quality.

This is a full-time role that can be held from one of our US offices or remotely

in the United States.

What you’ll do at Fetch (Role Responsibilities):

* Set technical direction for CI/CD systems and software delivery

infrastructure across Fetch.

* Own the CI/CD roadmap over multiple quarters, aligning investment with org

priorities, cost tradeoffs, and engineering strategy, and making the case for

where to invest and where not to.

* Design, build, and evolve scalable CI pipelines, deployment systems, and

developer automation.

* Improve feedback loops by making build failures, test results, quality

signals, and deployment health easier for developers to understand and act

on.

* Identify and eliminate bottlenecks across build, test, merge, deployment, and

release workflows.

* Improve CI performance through caching, parallelization, workload

optimization, infrastructure improvements, and thoughtful test execution

strategies.

* Design quality gates and automated safeguards that allow teams to move

quickly without compromising reliability.

* Build tools and platform capabilities that standardize common software

delivery patterns while allowing teams to move independently.

* Partner with infrastructure, SRE, security, backend, frontend, and mobile

engineers to improve the reliability and scalability of our software delivery

systems.

* Establish metrics and observability for CI/CD systems, including developer

feedback time, pipeline reliability, infrastructure utilization, and

deployment performance.

* Evaluate build-vs-buy decisions and introduce new technologies when they

provide meaningful improvements over existing solutions.

* Lead complex, cross-team technical initiatives from problem definition

through adoption.

* Drive adoption of new tools and workflows through documentation, technical

guidance, training, and hands-on collaboration.

* Mentor senior and staff-level engineers, and establish feedback loops, review

standards, or coaching practices that raise the technical bar for platform,

infrastructure, and developer productivity engineering across teams.

* Explore how AI and agentic development workflows can improve build, test,

review, deployment, and operational processes.

In your Toolbox (Minimum Requirements):

* 8+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience

building or operating CI/CD, developer infrastructure, platform engineering,

DevOps, or related systems.

* Demonstrated Staff-level technical leadership, including leading ambiguous

initiatives that span multiple engineering teams.

* A track record of growing other engineers through mentorship, technical

guidance, or the standards and practices you have put in place.

* Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to work across

application and infrastructure boundaries.

* Experience designing and operating modern CI/CD systems at meaningful scale.

* Strong understanding of build systems, testing infrastructure, deployment

strategies, artifact management, and release automation.

* Experience with cloud infrastructure and modern DevOps practices.

* Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automated infrastructure

provisioning.

* Strong understanding of containers and orchestration technologies such as

Docker and Kubernetes.

* Experience diagnosing performance, scalability, and reliability problems

across distributed build or deployment systems.

* Strong understanding of software delivery tradeoffs including speed, cost,

reliability, developer experience, and operational complexity.

* Ability to write production-quality software and automation rather than

relying exclusively on configuration or third-party tooling.

* Strong communication skills with experience influencing technical direction

across teams without direct authority.

* High degree of ownership and agency. Comfortable navigating ambiguity,

defining a path forward, and driving toward pragmatic and maintainable

solutions.

* A developer-focused mindset with a strong interest in understanding how

engineers interact with the systems you build.

* An AI-forward mentality and willingness to explore emerging tools that can

meaningfully improve engineering effectiveness.

Nice to haves/Bonus Points (Preferred Requirements):

* Experience building internal developer platforms or developer productivity

tooling at medium-to-large engineering organizations.

* Experience with CI platforms such as GitHub Actions, Bitrise or similar

systems.

* Experience with Kubernetes-based build or CI infrastructure.

* Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.

* Experience with AWS or another major cloud provider.

* Experience with observability systems and establishing SLOs for

developer-facing infrastructure.

* Experience designing progressive delivery systems, canary deployments,

feature rollouts, or automated rollback mechanisms.

* Experience improving large monorepo or multi-repository build systems.

* Experience working across backend, frontend, mobile, and infrastructure

environments.

* Experience developing internal platforms or paved roads that abstract

infrastructure complexity for application engineers.

* Experience applying AI or autonomous agents to software development, testing,

CI/CD, or operational workflows.

* Open-source contributions or involvement in developer tooling,

infrastructure, or DevOps communities.

Compensation

At Fetch, we offer competitive compensation packages including

base, equity, and benefits to the exceptional folks we hire. Discover our

benefits and how our employees live rewarded at https://fetch.com/careers

[https://fetch.com/careers].