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Developer Productivity Engineer

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About the Role

  • Own the build: You’ll be the single threaded owner for the build/test/deploy of our software and how each team fits into it
  • Monorepo productivity: Detangle our build/test/deploy patterns so teams can move fast and not block each other. Investigate/implement a tool like turbo repo to speed builds and separate concerns
  • Drive excellence in testing: We need to improve our top-down and team-level views into test coverage + support an ever growing matrix of data sources, data destinations, and enrichment patterns. An excellent engineer in this role will be able to “hold up a mirror” to our dev teams, helping each team understand where they have gaps
  • Multi-Region and Multi-Cloud: Supporting our multi-region and multi-cloud backend, including extending it to launch Hightouch on in new regions to support data residency requirements of our global customer base
  • Operational excellence: Support an increase in our ability to catch issues before they reach production and respond quickly if they do

About You

  • You’ve been a member of a developer-productivity team/function for an outstanding development team
  • You’ve organically become “the build person” at a fast-growing startup and helped bring order to chaos
  • You’ve personally delivered code that has improved cross-team metrics related to developer productivity (e.g., DORA metrics, coverage, etc)

Interview Process

  • Apply: Curl jobapi.hightouchdata.com on port 13784 and have followed those instructions before applying. It'll only take a minute!
  • Recruiter Screen: Introductory call with our recruiting team to get to know each other and see if the role could be a good mutual fit
  • System Design Screen: Designing a data processing feature end-to-end.
  • Developer Productivity Skills Interview: We’ll dive into your experience making teams productive through a discussion of past projects and tooling you've used.
  • Hiring Manager Interview: Chat with hiring manager about past experiences and future operating preferences to assess fit on company values and operating principles.
  • System Design Interview: Work with the interviewer to architect a system at a conceptual level. The problem will be at a pretty high level - and have both product and customer requirements as well as technical.
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