Software Engineer, Developer Experience
Job Description
- Experience with CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Jenkins)
- Experience with build systems (e.g., Bazel, Gradle)
- Experience with containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of internal tools that support software development workflows
- Improve build, test, and deployment systems to make them faster, more reliable, and easier to use
- Collaborate with engineers across teams to understand pain points and identify opportunities for automation or tooling improvements
- Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and team planning
About the Developer Experience Team
The Developer Experience (DX) team at Thumbtack is focused on making engineering fast, reliable, and delightful. We tackle hard problems collaboratively, grounded in strong values of ownership and transparency. As a DX team member, you’ll partner closely with engineers company-wide to identify pain points, design pragmatic solutions, and drive impactful improvements that elevate our entire engineering organization.
The Challenge
This is an exciting opportunity for someone early in their career to work closely with experienced engineers, learn best practices, and make a meaningful impact on how our developers work every day.
You’ll help maintain and improve the infrastructure that supports our entire engineering organization. This includes writing code, debugging tricky systems problems, and helping drive incremental improvements to our tools and processes. We believe in learning by doing, and you’ll have the support of a collaborative team that values mentorship and continuous growth.
We’re tackling some of the most important and complex challenges in modern software development. We’re introducing GenAI tooling into a hybrid local/cloud development environment — balancing innovation with reliability and performance. We’re streamlining the designer–developer feedback loop to enable rapid prototyping and faster iteration. And we’re building the foundations for measuring developer productivity across diverse workflows, helping Thumbtack make smarter, faster engineering investments.
What you'll do
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of internal tools that support software development workflows
- Improve build, test, and deployment systems to make them faster, more reliable, and easier to use
- Collaborate with engineers across teams to understand pain points and identify opportunities for automation or tooling improvements
- Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and team planning
In order to be successful, you must bring
- Minimum of 2+ years of industry experience in software engineering.
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, TypeScript, Java)
- Interest in infrastructure, tooling, developer experience, or DevOps practices
- Curiosity, initiative, and a willingness to learn new tools and systems
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Bonus: Experience with CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Jenkins), build systems (e.g., Bazel, Gradle), or containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
