USD per year
Staff Software Engineer
Location
United States; European Union; United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
Remote
Department
Engineering
Compensation
- $100K – $250K
Overview
Depot helps software teams build faster and spend less time waiting. The platform spans Depot CI, remote container builds, GitHub Actions runners, remote cache, registry, APIs, SDKs, and the CLI. Across all of it, our job is to make hard infrastructure feel fast, dependable, and easy for developers. We’re looking for a Staff Engineer who can work across the whole product. You might redesign onboarding, shape an API, change a CLI command, improve logs and errors, simplify billing or permissions, or debug a production issue with support at your side. The common thread is turning messy customer pain into crisp product and technical work. This is a high-ownership role on a small team. You’ll help decide what to build, make tradeoffs explicit, write the technical plan, build important pieces yourself, bring teammates along, and measure whether the work made customers faster or less blocked. We care as much about how you work as what you know. You should listen well, write clearly, handle disagreement without creating drag, and build trust through judgment and follow-through. Direct experience with our exact stack helps, but it is not the bar. We care more about learning deeply and shipping thoughtful work. Please note: Depot is remote-only. For this role we can currently support hiring within North America and Europe.
What you’ll do
- Own product work across the web console, APIs, CLI, GitHub integrations, billing and usage, permissions, docs, and internal tools.
- Turn ambiguous customer pain into clear product and technical plans, then carry them through design, implementation, rollout, and measurement.
- Improve developer-facing workflows for CI, container builds, cache, registry, runners, setup, logs, errors, and integrations.
- Design APIs and data models that are consistent, understandable, and safe to evolve.
- Debug production issues across services databases AWS infrastructure integrations customer environments.
- Raise the engineering bar through design docs code review mentorship calm technical leadership.
What we’re looking for
- Staff-level product engineering judgment across backend behavior API shape data model UI flow operational reality.
- Experience owning meaningful projects from ambiguity to production including sequencing tradeoffs rollout follow-through.
- Strong technical depth in backend full-stack platform infrastructure developer-tooling systems.
- Excellent debugging instincts across application code APIs databases background jobs cloud infrastructure observability third-party integrations.
- Developer empathy for clear APIs intuitive CLIs useful docs actionable errors workflows that feel fast trustworthy.
- High emotional intelligence you communicate clearly handle disagreement constructively help a remote team make better decisions.
Typically this comes from 7+ years of production engineering experience or equivalent depth in product platform infrastructure developer tools Helpful background includes CI systems GitHub Actions build tooling Docker/BuildKit remote caching auth/SSO billing observability. Direct experience with our specific stack is a bonus but not required TypeScript Go React protobuf/gRPC-style APIs MySQL/PlanetScale ClickHouse AWS OpenTelemetry.
How we work
Depot is fully remote distributed across US Canada Europe We rely on clear writing async collaboration people who can create clarity without waiting for perfect instructions. We are a small team trying to do unusually ambitious work Ownership matters here you make choices own outcomes share what you learn when those choices work or do not. Work is not family We care about excellent work meeting commitments also expect people to have real lives outside Depot. We make decisions with customer context data Strong opinions are useful clear evidence good judgment are better.
Equal opportunity
Depot is an equal opportunity employer We welcome candidates from different backgrounds encourage you to apply even if your experience does not match every bullet If you need reasonable accommodation during interview process let us know. Compensation Range: $100K - $250K
Depot Technologies Inc. is a Y Combinator-backed company providing a high-performance CI/CD platform that accelerates builds and workflows with advanced caching and orchestration features.
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