Sesame
Staff Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure
San Francisco · Staff+ · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 203 days ago
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About the role
- AI is the biggest unlock for automation in a generation and it infuses everything we touch.
- For the Developer Infrastructure team, every instance of manual effort is an opportunity to solve a customer problem once and for all with great software.
Responsibilities
- Own and lead the developer experience from onboarding through deploy - dev environments, build systems, CI/CD, test infrastructure, and deploy tooling
- Build frameworks and tooling that make CI fast, reliable, and effortless. Engineers shouldn't have to think about it - it should just work
- Design and build self-serve tooling that lets product and ML engineers move quickly without filing tickets or waiting on you
- Lead teams toward clear, reliable visibility into what's in production, when it shipped, and how it's performing
- Explore and lead what it means to bring AI-assisted intelligence into developer tooling - this is a genuinely exciting frontier, and we're approaching it thoughtfully
- Build and maintain the complex systems that support rapid development: build systems, dependency management, test infrastructure, and developer environments all need ongoing care
- You're a thoughtful software engineer who also loves infrastructure. You write clean, well-designed code and lead by example in caring about the experience of the people using what you build
- You've worked on CI/CD systems and have real experience building and leading durable solutions to the hard problems - slow builds, flaky tests, painful merges
- You've built and led developer tooling that other engineers genuinely wanted to use: self-serve frameworks, CLI tools, build systems, environment setup, or debugging tools
- Automation is your default. You build solutions proactively - doing something manually twice feels like a problem worth solving
Nice to have
- Cloud-based development environments (e.g. Coder, Codespaces, devcontainers)
- We'd love to hear about experience in any of these areas - but we don't expect any one person to have all of them:
- Deploy pipeline patterns: canary deployments, feature flags, automated rollbacks, GitOps
- Security engineering in developer workflows: dependency scanning, secrets management, supply chain controls
- Sesame is committed to a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered.
- We welcome all qualified applicants, embracing diversity in race, gender, identity, orientation, ability, and more.
- We provide reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.
- Contact careers@sesame.com for assistance.
Skills
- At its core, Sesame is a tools company.
Compensation
- 401 (k) max employer match: 3.5% of compensation
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental benefits for you and your dependents
- Unlimited PTO and sick time
- Flexible spending account with employer matching up to $1,650/year (medical FSA)
- Opportunity to share in the company's success with competitive stock options
- Benefits do not apply to contingent/contract workers.
- With this vision, we're designing a new kind of computer, focused on making voice agents part of our daily lives.
Company info
- Lead creative thinking about what a performance-sensitive stack - GPUs, co-located servers, real-time requirements - means for the developer environment. There's no established playbook here, and that's part of the appeal
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